Scribe has never read a line of the codebase. Every Drafter surface recalls from the RECORD — things someone deliberately recorded — so a helper nobody thought to record is invisible to all of them. That is how `.btn-primary` came to be defined four times, in four scoped stylesheets, already diverged: it was never a snippet, so no threshold and no query rewrite could ever have surfaced it (#2280). The write-path hook already runs on the developer's machine, inside the repo, holding the code about to be written. It can simply look. No index, no storage, no staleness story, no server round-trip. Verified against this repo with Scribe unconfigured: .btn-primary is already defined in 4 other file(s): DesignSystemsView.vue ProjectListView.vue SettingsView.vue SnippetEditorView.vue Three properties it needs, all checked by hand: - DEFINITION-shaped patterns only. Grepping bare occurrences would match every call site and bury the real finding, and a hint that is mostly noise is one people learn to skip — worse than none. A payload containing only calls to embed_note() stays silent; one containing `def embed_note` does not. - The target file is excluded, so editing the file that already defines something doesn't report it against itself. - It runs when Scribe is UNCONFIGURED, and a failed request no longer discards it. The remote arms answer "what was recorded"; this one answers "what exists", and that question needs no instance to produce an answer. `curl || exit 0` became `curl || true` for the same reason. Plugin 0.1.21 -> 0.1.22. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs
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.