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Last piece of the architecture in #2296. The operator: "the prose doesn't have to live as one offs, there's a central system for managing it." Two fields, both free-form: design_systems.guidance the narrative a token table cannot hold — aesthetic, voice and tone, what is deliberately out of scope. design_tokens.rationale WHY a token is this value, which is a different question from `purpose` (what it is FOR). "Success equals Moss, aligned by design" is a rationale; "page bg, deepest surface" is a purpose. Rules carry the first routinely and a token row had nowhere to put it. Free-form rather than a column per category, deliberately. A schema with `voice`, `aesthetic` and `scope` columns would bake one rulebook's table of contents into every install (rule #115), leaving the next install three empty columns and nowhere for what it actually cares about. Both nullable: a design system with no prose at all is complete, not a draft. `rationale` cascades like `purpose` — deepest non-empty wins — so an app overriding a colour keeps the family's reasoning rather than blanking it. Same argument as `supersedes`: the override was about the value, not the meaning. In the generated sheet the inline comment prefers `purpose` and falls back to `rationale`, so a token carrying only the why still says something instead of rendering bare.
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.