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Milestone #254 step 1 (#2286). A design system becomes a record Scribe holds rather than prose in a rulebook: a named set of tokens with an OPTIONAL parent, so a family system carries the house style and an app system carries only what it changes. Answering "what does this app alter?" is then `list its tokens` — nothing to compute. `parent_id` is the whole model. It replaces both an `always_on` flag (a family system is one with no parent) and a subscription join table (a project points at ONE system; the chain supplies the rest) — less schema than the rulebook shape it mirrors. Two decisions the task left open, settled here: - **Token values are JSONB keyed by mode**, not `value_light`/`value_dark` columns. The deciding argument was not flexibility, it was ambiguity: in a child system an unset mode means "inherit", in a root it means "not mode-dependent", and as columns both are NULL and the resolver cannot tell them apart. As a map, resolution is `{**parent, **child}` at every level with no special case for roots. Against it: queryability — but nothing filters tokens by value in SQL, so that buys a query no caller makes. - **`group_name` is free text, no CHECK enum.** Groupings are each design system's own vocabulary; a whitelist would bake one install's kit into the schema. No CHECK is introduced anywhere, so rule #36 does not fire. The cascade lives in `services/design_cascade.py` as pure functions over a `{id: parent_id}` map, importing nothing — which is what lets both the service and `access.py` use it without a cycle, and lets a test state a whole hierarchy in one literal. Cycles are refused on WRITE by walking up from the proposed parent (the cheap direction), and survived on READ by a visited-set, because a loop from a direct DB edit must truncate rather than hang. ACL (rule #78) is deliberately asymmetric: owning a system grants write, reaching one through a project you can see grants READ ONLY. An editor on a shared project must not be able to rewrite the family system every other project in that family resolves through. Also renames `services/design_system.py` -> `design_rulebook_import.py`. It is the #251 prose extractor, whose role is already scheduled to become a one-shot importer (#2288), and leaving it one character away from the new `design_systems.py` was a trap for every later session. Rule #115 throughout: nothing seeds a system or implies a default. An install with zero design systems is ordinary, not degraded.
Fabled Scribe
A self-hosted work system-of-record for software projects, built to be driven by Claude Code. Notes, tasks, issues, projects, milestones, rules, and stored processes — reachable from Claude via a built-in MCP endpoint and a bundled Claude Code plugin, with a clean web UI for humans. No in-app LLM; Claude is the sole assistant.
Features
Notes and tasks with a Markdown editor, sub-tasks, milestones, issues, and kanban project workspaces. Stored processes, an engineering rulebook system, and semantic search with proactive knowledge-injection into Claude's context. A knowledge graph, per-user/group sharing, and a built-in MCP server (/mcp) plus a bundled Claude Code plugin so Claude can record and recall your work directly.
Quick Start
Prerequisites: Docker and Docker Compose. No GPU or local model needed — Claude is the sole assistant, reached over MCP.
Download docker-compose.quickstart.yml from this repo, then:
# Optional but recommended — set a secret key
export SECRET_KEY=your-random-secret-here
docker compose -f docker-compose.quickstart.yml up -d
Open http://localhost:5000. The first user to register becomes admin. To connect Claude, create an API key under Settings → API Keys and install the Claude Code plugin — see API Keys & MCP.
Development: To build from source, see Development.
Documentation
| Doc | Contents |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Stack, design decisions, data models, key services |
| Configuration | Environment variables, Docker Compose, production setup, security |
| Features | Detailed feature breakdown and keyboard shortcuts |
| Development | Dev workflow, CI/CD, migrations, release process |
| API Keys & MCP | API key management and Fable MCP install guide |
| SSO / OAuth | OIDC setup for Authentik, Keycloak, and other providers |
| API Reference | All REST API endpoints |
License
This project is privately maintained.