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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	efabba58dd	fix(rules): the staleness signal must not wait for prior art to match (#3244) ... CI caught two things, and the first is the feature not working rather than a test being wrong. THE SIGNAL WAS GATED ON A COINCIDENCE. build_write_path_hint returns early when no prior art, stamp, divergence or derive matched, and that guard sat ABOVE the new arm — so a session whose rules had changed was told only if the file it happened to be editing also matched something else. A staleness signal that fires on that coincidence is not a staleness signal. The arm now runs above the guard, collecting into its own list that `lines` is seeded from, and the guard accounts for it. The standing-rule arm (milestone 307) is deliberately LEFT below that guard, and this is a finding rather than a fix: it has the same gating and probably should not, but it runs a SEMANTIC search, so lifting it would put an embedding query on every write in every session. That is a cost decision, not a bug fix, and not this task's to make. THE MARKER MUST NOT BREAK THE PAYLOAD IT DECORATES. rules_etag is computed on the SessionStart path, where `max()` raising costs the whole context payload — every rule title, the project, all of it — to save a hint. A row with no usable timestamp is now skipped and a set with none degrades to a count-only marker, which still catches a rule added or deleted and only loses edits. That is the right way round to lose information. CI found it because build_session_context's tests pass MagicMock rules and `max()` over those raises TypeError. Also: list_always_on_rules on an install with no always-on rulebooks returns `rules_etag: "empty|0"`. Its exact-dict test is updated rather than loosened — the key being present on an empty install is the behaviour, not noise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-30 13:10:04 -04:00
bvandeusen	9657478500	docs(notes): the guidance gains the sharper test and the three false candidates (#3180, milestone 317 step 6) ... Step 6 measured the claim the whole milestone rests on — that the notes corpus divides into norms and constraints, with constraints a minority worth sweeping — against a stratified sample of the real thing. It holds: ~29% in `reference`, ~8% general, ~0-5% in `decision`, 0% in `dev-log`; roughly 6-11% of ~395 plain notes. Written up as note 3210. The step was allowed to return "revert" and does not. Two things the measurement found that the guidance did not say, now added to both the skill and the create_note docstring: A SHARPER TEST. Every note that earned a check was about somebody ELSE's software — a signing service, a forge, a hub, an SDK, a model, a dependency set. Not one was about the operator's own code. "Is the thing this note describes yours to change?" is decidable from the title in nearly every case, where the abstract form needs thought. THREE FALSE CANDIDATES, one of them a live hazard. Resume pointers and "current state" notes go stale faster than anything else in the corpus, which is exactly why they tempt — but the cure is to update or delete them, not to schedule a check, and a sweep full of pointers is a sweep nobody reads. Measurements of our own system go false because we changed something and knew. And a decision RESTING on someone else's behaviour is still a decision — the check belongs on the note asserting the fact. Also recorded, not fixed: the corpus already contains a note titled "CONSTRAINT: software only — no DIY hardware", using the word for a self-imposed scope limit — a NORM in this taxonomy, exactly backwards. Both surfaces already lead with the question rather than the label, which is the mitigation; note 3210 names the collision so it is not rediscovered.	2026-08-29 00:16:18 -04:00
bvandeusen	1d65e98ac2	docs(notes): the surfaces say WHEN a note earns a check, and a guard keeps them saying it (#3168, milestone 317 step 5) ... The step that decides whether steps 1-4 were worth building. `verify_with` is a free-text field on the highest-volume record kind in the product; described only as "how to verify this note" it gets filled in on every note within a week, and at that point the sweep returns the whole corpus and means nothing. The signal is not "has a check" — it is "has a check AND almost nothing else does". Rule 119 puts this in the app's own instruction surfaces, never in a Scribe rule. So: - the using-scribe skill gains the reflex, next to "state updates in place; chronicles don't" — its other half, since supersession only fires once somebody has read a note and disagreed, which is the case where it was already believed; - update_note's docstring now states the DEFAULT rather than only deferring to create_note for the test. Found by the new guard on its first run; - plugin 0.1.48. THE _INSTRUCTIONS BUDGET, decided rather than skipped. The payload is ~1980 of the client's ~2048-char cap, so everything in it competes for the last ~68 characters. The operator declined a line for this milestone: the map's own closing sentence says each tool's description carries the full contract, and the sweep is a curation act rather than a session-start reflex like enter_project or list_always_on_rules. That reasoning is now a comment beside the constant, with the accepted cost named — an agent that never opens create_note's docstring never learns the field exists — so the question is not re-litigated blind. The guard pins STRUCTURE, never wording, for the disambiguator's reason (a test that punishes rewriting is a test that gets deleted): each write surface must still draw the norm-vs-constraint distinction, say the empty case is normal, and name where NOT to reach for it — plus that the skill carries the one-question form, because the docstrings only reach a caller who already opened the tool. `_doc` moves to tests/helpers as `tool_doc`; it had been written twice.	2026-08-29 00:10:43 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5	dc2f32cc6f	docs(inception): using-scribe skill teaches the inception questions; plugin 0.1.38; api-reference + README (#2884, milestone 297 step 6) ... Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-21 22:11:08 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5	56b1952de5	fix(systems): sweeps are the discovery moment — zero-Systems hint, create_system dedup gate, prose inverted ... First real-world test of the #2562 fixes (Scribe issue #2569): a Forge session ran a whole-codebase audit and created zero Systems — endorsed by the shipped guidance, whose "no particular area takes none" clause read as an exemption for exactly the record type that enumerates the subsystem vocabulary. And the systems_hint was silent for a zero-Systems project, the one state nothing else nudges out of. - systems_hint gains a zero-Systems branch: prompt the FIRST create_system instead of going quiet. - create_system is duplicate-gated like the other creates (normalized name, archived included, fail-open) — liberal creation becomes safe by construction, so the guidance can stop preaching restraint. - Prose inverted on every surface (hint text, create_system docstring, floor bullet, using-scribe step 7): audits/sweeps take several tags and mint the Systems they name; the gate is the guardrail against sprawl, not holding back; only a record genuinely about no particular area goes untagged. - Plugin 0.1.26 -> 0.1.27. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-09 15:35:59 -04:00
bvandeusen	3f1523b19f	feat(systems): read-side teeth — the vocabulary at session start, a search filter, and the state/chronicle instructions ... Step 4 of #278, product half. The audit that motivated it: one System in project 2, thirty records tagged, nothing since July 28 — three days after the feature landed. Not a discipline failure; retrieval was completely blind to the association (zero references in embeddings, knowledge, search, auto-inject, or enter_project), so tagging was a write-side label with no read-side payoff, and labels nobody reads don't get maintained. Three changes, ordered by what makes the others workable: 1. enter_project returns the project's Systems (id, name, first line of the charter). Load-bearing for the tagging instruction: you cannot ask an agent to check a record against a vocabulary it never sees. Trimmed because it rides on every session start; the full charter stays get_system's job. Present-and-empty rather than absent when a project has none — "no named areas yet" is information the create-the-System instruction acts on. 2. search accepts system_id, MCP and REST (#33). Implemented once in semantic_search_notes as an EXISTS against record_systems — an association filter deciding candidate-set membership before scoring, like project_id, not a ranking signal. The REST route's missing project filter stays #2463's: it carries a default-scope UI decision this change must not preempt. 3. The instructions (#119, _INSTRUCTIONS + using-scribe skill; plugin 0.1.25 for the cache): - Tag as you write, with an executable test — "would someone investigating that subsystem want this in the pile list_system_records returns?" — rather than "tag appropriately", which is what died. - Create the System when the area has no record: the two-or-more test snippets use, plus "don't wait to be asked to name an area that plainly exists", because the agent's default was leaving un-modelled areas un-modelled forever. - State vs chronicle: dev-logs are written once and never rewritten; durable findings live in the System's reference note, updated in place — safe because note versions are the changelog, which has existed since the feature shipped and was never named as one. list_system_records' docstring now sells it as the way to READ a subsystem, reference note first. No auto-inject boost by System — vocabulary and filter first, measure before adding ranking behaviour (the #2486 lesson). Refs #278, #2546	2026-08-08 18:19:58 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	731ca284c3	feat(design-systems): give a design system a way to reach the session ... Storing a design system never made a session aware of one. Rules get pushed into every session by the SessionStart hook and returned by enter_project; a design system had neither, so its standards were reachable only by an agent that already knew to call resolve_design_system — the same silent failure as a token nobody declares. That gap was invisible while the operator's visual standards also lived in a rulebook. Retiring that rulebook (which is what this unblocks) would have deleted design guidance from every session with nothing to say so. - services/design_systems.design_context() — the delivery side. Guidance is chain-merged ANCESTOR-FIRST: a child system holds only what it CHANGES, so its own guidance describes a departure from a house style it never restates, and the leaf alone is a fragment. Tokens are summarised (count + group names), not listed — a hundred declarations would crowd out the context they are meant to inform. - enter_project returns `design_system`, null when the project has none. - The SessionStart context gains a Design system block with pointers to the values, alongside the always-on rules. - server.py's entity list gains Design system, including the negative: do NOT record one as a rulebook, because a token kept as prose cannot be resolved, inherited, rendered or checked. - The rulebook-tier passage used "a design-system rulebook" as its worked example of a subscribed rulebook — it now teaches the opposite, plus a new "is this a rule at all?" test pointing at design systems, processes and snippets. - using-scribe gains a section on building UI against the project's system. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-07-31 22:10:09 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5	6eedb0f6b9	fix(instructions): stop mandating a milestone for every non-trivial task ... Four product surfaces told the agent to call start_planning FIRST for any "non-trivial" work, while a fifth — the milestone bullet four lines up in the same file — had the criterion right: use one when the work has an arc. The loudest surface won, so sessions wrapped bug fixes and one-file changes in milestones that never meant anything. Mandating one project shape is what rule #115 forbids: some projects are milestone-shaped, others are a flat task list and always will be. Now the arc test is stated ONCE in full, in writing-plans, along with what to do when there is no arc (a task, driven by status and work-logs). The other surfaces name it and defer: - writing-plans/SKILL.md gains a "first decide whether this work wants a plan" section; its frontmatter trigger is the arc, not "non-trivial" - using-scribe reflex #4 points at the skill instead of restating it - server.py's Plan bullet adopts the milestone bullet's own criterion - server.py's planning paragraph drops from 11 lines to 6: it keeps the claim MCP instructions should make (a plan's HOME is a milestone, not a local .md) and drops the how, which the skill carries - start_planning's docstring gains the when Also removed "call start_planning FIRST — before any brainstorming, design, or plan-writing skill runs." That was the server asserting priority over the skill layer. Tools describe what they do; skills decide when they apply. The structural point outlasts the wording: a surface that restates a rule is a surface that will eventually contradict it, and nothing checks prose against prose. Closes #2322. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs	2026-07-31 20:39:20 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	ab9b5b647c	docs(scribe): true up plugin + MCP docs after calendar/entity removal ... Milestone #194 plugin/docs slice. - plugin.json: "second brain" framing -> "system-of-record"; bump 0.1.11 -> 0.1.12 (any plugin/ change must bump the manifest, issue #1040) - plugin/README.md + using-scribe SKILL + scribe_static_context: drop events/typed-entities from the surface lists; "second brain" -> "system of record" in the SessionStart context Claude reads each session - docs/api-keys-and-mcp.md: drop the Typed-entities + Events MCP tool rows, add the Systems row - README.md: rewrite the stale front-matter (chat/RAG/calendar/weather/push described a pre-pivot product) to the current Claude-driven work store Deeper pre-pivot doc-rot in docs/features.md + docs/api-reference.md (chat/journal/weather/web-research) is tracked separately as an issue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BPtbSzA4JLMAKgFZ8VTg7Q	2026-07-19 16:14:46 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	5fbee18a94	feat(mcp): S5 — issue-kind guidance across all instruction surfaces ... Plan #825 (T2 — Issues task_kind) shipped S1–S4 but its S5 docs slice never landed, so every behavioral surface the plugin pushes to the agent still described the pre-kind convention ("tag `issue`" on a create_note). Result: agents fixed bugs without reaching for kind=issue and dumped the work as logs on unrelated open tasks. - _INSTRUCTIONS: rewrite the "record a problem" bullet to create_task(kind="issue") with symptom→cause→fix + arose_from_id / system_ids, and an explicit "not a work-log on an unrelated task"; add Issue + System to the hierarchy section. - skills/systematic-debugging, verification: drop "tag `issue`" / create_note-issue, point at create_task(kind="issue"). - skills/using-scribe: add issues/systems to the entity list + reflex #6. - hooks/scribe_static_context: fix → its own issue on the keyless floor. Instance-agnostic, prose-only; no schema or tool-behavior change. Pairs with always-on rule #118. Issue: #855. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-14 23:22:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	f7742173aa	chore(plans): make kind=plan retirement consistent across MCP, REST, UI, skills ... Audit of the plugin + MCP surface after milestone-as-plan (T3): every path that could still create a kind=plan task or describe the old plan-task model is now aligned with the hard-retire decision. - create_task (MCP + REST POST /api/tasks): reject kind=plan with a message pointing to start_planning. The 'plan' enum value stays valid so legacy plan-tasks remain readable; update paths never touch kind, so they round-trip. - create_task / get_task docstrings: 'plan' dropped from creatable kinds; get_task's rules-augmentation noted as legacy-only (get_milestone for new plans). - skills/writing-plans: rewritten for milestone-as-plan (body = design, steps = child tasks, get_milestone to read back). - skills/using-scribe: "plans live in milestones via start_planning", not kind=plan. - TaskEditorView Kind selector: offers Work/Issue; "Plan (legacy)" shown only when the loaded task is already kind=plan (display round-trip). - test: create_task rejects kind=plan. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-14 12:31:51 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	88106309f4	feat(plugin): add 4 Scribe-native process-skills (restore superpowers gap) ... Superpowers was uninstalled but its replacements were never built (only using-scribe shipped) — a live functional hole. Author the 4 the operator wants back, each integrated with Scribe's toolset rather than generic copies: - writing-plans -> start_planning / kind=plan task, not local .md - systematic-debugging -> capture issue (symptom->cause->fix, tag issue) on resolve - verification -> log results to the task work-log; honest done - brainstorming -> recall prior thinking first; capture the decision note Skipped TDD + receiving-code-review per operator (well-covered by Claude/them). Manifest + using-scribe list now advertise only the 4 that ship. Remove the stale docs/superpowers/*.md reference in _INSTRUCTIONS (superpowers is gone). Plugin 0.1.6 -> 0.1.7. Refs plan 821 (Phase 3 of 755). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-13 20:52:34 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	95e1d47ceb	ref(mcp): neutralize dev-shaped vocabulary in _INSTRUCTIONS + add write-mandate (B9/A4) ... The MCP instructions are domain-neutral except a thin layer of dev vocabulary and one project-specific paragraph (B10 audit, task 812). Make the data store's own instructions serve any domain, and add the missing positive write-mandate. B9 (neutralize): - 'before writing code' -> 'before you dive in' - Note examples 'dev-logs' -> 'logs of what happened' - record trigger 'a merge, a shipped feature, a finished plan' + 'dev-log note' -> 'finishing a task, or hitting/discovering a problem that changes direction' (folds in B8: log pivots, not just wins; mirrors the static-tier wording) - recall examples 'ticket/dev-log' -> 'task/prior note' (server + SKILL.md) - 'Engineering and workflow rules' -> 'Workflow and standards rules' - slim the 'developing Scribe itself' ACL paragraph to a neutral one-liner (project-specific specifics already live in rules #47/#78) A4 (write-mandate): state up front that Scribe is the system of record — record work here, recall before acting, don't keep project work in local files. Refs plan 812 (B9, A4, B8-trigger); B10 audit work-log. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-13 15:57:22 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	9eddb8497c	feat(plugin): Scribe replaces native memory by instruction; tighten project-scope discipline ... Direction change (operator, see plan task #755 work-log): the plugin must NOT depend on disabling a native Claude function to work. It earns its place by steering behavior, not by toggling autoMemoryEnabled. Memory doctrine (no dual-write): - using-scribe SKILL.md gains "Scribe holds these functions — don't keep a second copy": route rules/recall/planning to Scribe, don't also write them to native auto-memory, never instruct disabling a native function, and accept a "Scribe-shaped hole" if the plugin is removed (recover over time). - mcp/server.py _INSTRUCTIONS: drop the paragraph that told the model to create/refresh a "rules live in Scribe" pointer in CLAUDE.md / ~/.claude memory. That was an active dual-write instruction; the SessionStart hook is the bridge now. Replaced with the no-dual-write / no-settings-dependency doctrine. Supersedes plan #755 Phase 6 ("set autoMemoryEnabled:false"). Project-scope discipline (stop cross-project bleed): - using-scribe SKILL.md gains "Stay inside the active project's scope": pass project_id to every read, only reference/offer work on the in-scope project, ask before switching. - _INSTRUCTIONS scope bullet extended from reads to referencing/offering, and flags get_recent as cross-project. - get_recent docstring gains a scope note steering to scoped list_* when a project is active. plugin.json 0.1.4 -> 0.1.5 so clients' caches actually refresh (re-shipping under the same version does not bust the cache). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-10 13:08:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	50b6902fe2	docs(mcp): encode rule-scope model in rulebook tool descriptions ... Make the always-on / subscribed / project-rule distinction explicit at the authoring surface so it can't silently regress (for this operator or other users). Previously the tools said only 'cross-project rulebook rule' and a bare 'subscribe a project' — nothing steered project-specific detail away from shared rulebooks, which is how a Scribe-pinned rule ends up binding every family project. Principle encoded in 5 places: a rule's home is chosen by WHO it should bind, and both rulebook tiers are SHARED so their rules stay general — they differ in reach (all projects vs opt-in by theme), not generality. Project-specific detail goes in create_project_rule. - server.py MCP instructions: add the 3-tier authoring principle - create_rule / create_rulebook / create_project_rule / subscribe_* docstrings - using-scribe SKILL.md: a 'Where a new rule goes' note for the pull path Refs #755 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-10 10:15:01 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	1983e8f4b1	feat(plugin): make using-scribe skill actively pull standing rules ... The SessionStart push channel cannot reliably deliver a sensitive API token to the hook subprocess (upstream Claude Code bug anthropics/ claude-code#62442 — sensitive plugin userConfig is not persisted and is absent on a normal session). Stop depending on that push for standing rules: make the using-scribe bootstrap skill own the load instead. - description: name the FIRST ACTION (list_always_on_rules + enter_project when a repo/project is in scope) so it auto-surfaces at session start - add a 'Do this first' block instructing an active pull; demote the SessionStart hook to a bonus, not a precondition (it fail-opens and may be absent) - reflex step 2: rules come from list_always_on_rules(), not from an assumed SessionStart injection The hook + hooks.json are left in place: they fail-open and resume adding value automatically if #62442 is fixed or the token is made non-sensitive. Refs #755 (Phase 1: push channel descoped to optional; pull is load-bearing) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-10 02:19:13 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8	9924f873b9	feat(plugin): ship the Scribe Claude Code plugin in-repo (marketplace + plugin) ... Per operator: the plugin lives in the app repo so it ships and versions in lockstep with the app and the /api/plugin/context contract it targets (same co-location rationale as the former in-repo MCP). A git-cloned marketplace supports relative plugin sources, so the FabledScribe repo IS the marketplace. - .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — source ./plugin - plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json — userConfig (base URL, api key, project id) - plugin/.mcp.json — http scribe server, ${user_config.*} substitution - plugin/hooks/ — SessionStart push-channel hook (fail-open) - plugin/skills/using-scribe — bootstrap skill - plugin/README.md — install via the FabledScribe repo marketplace Phase 2 of plan #755. Install/userConfig-substitution test pending. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-06-09 23:04:09 -04:00