Merge kept the target's fields, unioned locations and tags, and trashed the sources — recording nothing about what it absorbed. If a variant handled an edge case the survivor doesn't, that difference left the visible record entirely; recovering it meant knowing to go digging in the trash. The survivor now carries `merged_from`: a "**Merged from:** #2, #3" line in the body for humans, and the same list in the `data` mirror for queries, written from one value like every other field (#2087). It accumulates rather than replaces — a target merged twice keeps both histories — and skipped sources (cross-owner, per #231) are excluded, so the record never claims to contain something it never absorbed. Ordinary edits carry it forward. update_snippet recomposes body and mirror from scratch, so an omission there would silently erase the history on the next unrelated edit; that path is pinned by its own test, including the pre-0070 case where the body line is the only copy. Surfaced in the snippet detail view as a "Merged from" row — the view renders parsed fields, not the raw body, so the body line alone would have been invisible to the operator (rule #27). Un-merge, the other half of #2087, stays open: restoring a source from trash still doesn't strip its locations off the survivor, and what partial un-merge should mean is a design question, not a coding one. `merged_from` is the record that makes it tractable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RLwAaV4DQEmVyn496HnEvt
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.