The prior-art and tool-rule hooks record every rule id they have named in <state>/<sid>.rules.ids and hand it back as exclude_rule_ids, so a rule is surfaced once per session and then goes quiet. That is correct while the session still HOLDS what it was told. A compaction breaks it in the worst available way: it summarizes the earlier injections out of context and does not touch the filesystem. The rule ends up absent from context AND still excluded — unreachable for the rest of the session. The compaction banner this hook already prints tells the model to re-pull its ALWAYS-ON rules, but a rule an arm surfaced is conditional and is not in that set, so it has no other way back. The rules most likely to be in that state are the ones that fire most often. The stale ledger is genuinely found again rather than orphaned: the etag marker further down this same hook is rewritten on `compact` and keyed by session_id, which is only meaningful if the id survives a compaction. CLEARED ON THE SOURCES THAT DESTROY CONTEXT, AND ONLY THOSE. `compact` and `clear` destroy it while the file survives. `resume` does not — the context came back intact, so clearing there would re-surface every rule after a restore that lost nothing, which is the same defect from the other side. `startup` is a no-op against a new session id. `fork` keeps it, and the answer holds whichever way forks are keyed: a fork carries the conversation, so an inherited id means an accurate ledger and a new id means an empty file. Only the RULE ledger. The same directory holds .ids / .sync.ids / .derive.ids for the note arms; whether a surfaced note should return after a compaction is a different question with a different answer, and a `rm` glob would have decided it silently. The guard pins the DISCRIMINATION, not the deletion: the whole source table is asserted in one statement, so a blanket delete (all False) and a no-op (all True) both fail, and neither can be made to pass by editing one case. A second test pins the scope against that glob, and a third proves an event with no session id clears nothing rather than falling back to a wildcard. Runs with no SCRIBE_URL/SCRIBE_TOKEN on purpose — the clear is local, keyless and networkless, and must still happen against an unreachable instance. That is also why it sits above the config read rather than inside the dynamic tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011cPyzNnegXHr5iRMzzy5KJ
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.