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A literal gets written into a stylesheet when there is no role to reach for. This codebase demonstrated it: the house style had no "text on a filled colour" role, so 76 call sites wrote a pure-white literal — not out of defiance, but because nothing existed to write instead. The correction was not a better ban list; it was declaring the missing role (#2275, #2349). So the useful moment is creation. A system whose roles are named on day one never presents the occasion. Ten groups, ~40 roles: surface, text, action, semantic, border, accent, radius, space, motion, state. Operator's call was one flat list, every group individually skippable — presets keyed to app shape (web / CLI / docs) were rejected because they need the product to hold opinions about app categories, and a wrong category is worse than a list someone prunes once. TWO BOUNDARIES THIS HAS TO HOLD, both rule #115: - The ROLES ship; the VALUES never do. Every seeded token has an empty value_by_mode, so a fresh system is a set of named, deliberately-unanswered questions. A test asserts no hex appears anywhere in the module — not just that tokens are blank, but that no palette hides in a comment waiting to be pasted in. - The PREFIX is the install's. `--fs-` is FabledSword's convention, not the product's; the default is a neutral `--ds-` and callers pass their own. Valueless roles are already legible downstream — render_stylesheet emits them as commented-out declarations and stylesheet_for_system reports them under `valueless` (#2299) — so "declared but undecided" reads correctly with nothing new built. Both surfaces, per rule #33: MCP gains starter_role_groups/token_prefix plus list_starter_role_groups(); REST gains the same on POST plus GET /api/design-systems/starter-roles. The parity enumeration is extended rather than loosened. Note create_design_system treats None and [] alike (seed nothing), while starter_tokens treats None as "all". Deliberate: creation must never write 40 rows into a system whose caller never asked, and the everything-checked default belongs in the UI where the operator can see it. 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.