A CORRECTION TO THIS ISSUE'S OWN PLAN, first, because the plan was wrong in a way that would have cost the acceptance case. #4208 recommended widening `kind` past `css | sym` to carry the form, calling the denominator the deeper win and a migration the price. Two things: 1. THE MIGRATION IS NOT NEEDED. The issue says density "is computed from stored rows and `shape_form` only runs on read". `canon_density` does `select(CodeShape)...scalars().all()` and filters to the directory in PYTHON; `signature` is a stored column; `canon_form(siblings, ...)` on the next line already derives form from those rows. Bucketing the denominator costs a list comprehension. 2. WIDENING `kind` WOULD BREAK MILESTONE #2793's ACCEPTANCE CASE. If `kind` separated `fn` from `async-fn`, density would bucket them apart — which does silence #4204's four `def` helpers, as claimed. Apply it to a hand-rolled SYNC `confirmDanger` in a directory where an async confirm helper is canon: the canon leaves the candidate's denominator, nothing dominates, no flag. That is the flag the milestone exists to produce, and it is the same inversion the first form gate made, one layer down. So option 1 is not expensive-but-right, it is wrong; and option 2 (compare meaning) is not the interim, it is the only lever. `confirmDanger` beside an async confirm helper and `is_registered` beside a service unit are identical at every structural level — same family, same form contradiction, same density. They differ only in whether the candidate does the canon's JOB, and no signature carries that. WHAT THIS SHIPS is the part that is right and provable: an honest denominator. `comparable_siblings` narrows the count to rows whose family does not contradict the candidate's, using `families_conflict` — the same predicate the gate uses, so the count and the verdict cannot drift into disagreeing about what comparable means. "372 judged siblings" stops counting a dataclass, a constant and an async service unit as three comparable things. NARROWED BY FAMILY, NOT FORM, for the reason above: `fn` beside `async-fn` stays a fair question. An unreadable sibling STAYS COUNTED — dropping it would shrink `judged`, raise the share, and fire the check more on the directories it can read least. Every unknown-form decision in this module goes that way. Density is now per candidate rather than per kind, cached on (kind, form). TWO BUGS THIS CHANGE HAD, both caught before CI and both pinned: - I passed a FAMILY where `families_conflict` reads a FORM, so `shape_family("callable")` returned "" and the narrowing was a silent no-op that still read as applied. The regression guard deliberately uses a callable: `type` is both a form and a family name, so testing with it proves nothing and the bug hides. - My new `_Row` in the test file shadowed the one already there — same fields, different `snippet_id` default — silently breaking three passing `canon_form` tests. Reused the existing class. A duplicate definition quietly changing a neighbour's meaning is this file's own subject. The residue test's docstring said separating the four needs "widen `kind` or a comparison of meaning". Corrected: they are not alternatives. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy
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 (with an inception step that decides what each project inherits), 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.