bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5
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MCP tool docstrings and comments, the server's orientation notes, the plugin skills, every hook script and the plugin README/PACKAGING drop record ids, milestone numbers, dates and incident stories, and state each non-obvious why as a present-tense fact. History stays in the task logs. Corrections found on the way: - plugin README/PACKAGING said every hook is a GET; moment, rule-opened and reply-rules POST, so the plugin's key needs write scope. Both now say so, name Settings -> MCP Access, and list every wired hook and endpoint. - the contract-change hint printed "(lesson #4207)", this instance's record, to every install. It no longer cites a record. - tasks.py claimed there is no delete_task; there is. - rulebooks.py cited delete_event and a design spec that no longer exist. - scribe_after_write.sh carried an always-empty etag_q; removed. - test_write_path_trigger pinned "| tac | scribe_defs | head -1", text that existed only in a comment about the old code; it now pins the real tail -1 pipeline. - docs/development.md: CI runs on Gitea Actions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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, tasks and issues; projects with milestones as plans; rules that reach Claude when its work matches them or at a moment of work; lessons, snippets of prior art and a ledger of the code they account for; design systems; ideas shared across projects on the same platform; and stored processes. Semantic search feeds both Claude's recall and the plugin's context injection. A knowledge graph, sharing with users and groups, and scheduled backups round it out. See Features.
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 → MCP Access 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 keys and installing the Claude Code plugin |
| SSO / OAuth | OIDC setup for Authentik, Keycloak, and other providers |
| Backups | Scheduled backups to a folder or S3, and restoring from one |
| Design system | The FabledSword house style and how Scribe applies it |
| API Reference | All REST API endpoints |
License
This project is privately maintained.