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The tuning loop shipped in steps 4 and 6 and logged zero events in its lifetime. `tune_retrieval`, `retrieval_telemetry` and `retrieval_surfaces` appeared on no instruction surface at all — not the skills, not the hooks, not the MCP instructions — so the decision that "the model should be the thing handling it 9 times out of 10" could not begin to happen. What was missing was not an auditor but a route. `using-scribe` now carries it, ordered: read the refused records, fix the trigger, and only then consider the dial. The order is the content. A rule's `when_to_apply` IS the text its score is computed against, so a miss is evidence about that text first; rewording one trigger changes one rule's reach, while moving a floor changes what every record on the surface does and cannot tell a badly-worded trigger from a genuinely distant one. Measured, and the reason the order is asserted rather than suggested: rule 1 scored 0.6515 and ranked 5th for the moment it governed, behind three rules that restrained the same act. Every percentile said "lower the floor"; at 0.60 the arm delivered those three restraints and still not rule 1. Rewriting the trigger to lead with the symptom put it 1st at 0.7130. Also: the create path gets a precondition. A new record is itself a retrieval-affecting act, so before writing one, what_might_apply asks what already covers that moment — fifty candidates and no bar, because a bar is what lets the existing record hide. `_INSTRUCTIONS` gets one index line, not the route: 1,986 of 2,000 characters, since Claude Code cuts the rest mid-word (#2562). 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.