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Milestone 419's acceptance, and it failed the first time it was run — which
is the only reason this commit exists.
THE MEASUREMENT. Ran the step-5 readout against this session's real traffic
instead of a fixture. It reported 19 rules named by an arm and none opened.
That is false: the session had called `get_rule` 45 times. Across six real
sessions on this instance: 208 opens, 3 surviving ledger entries. 1.4%.
THE CAUSE. `.opened.ids` was doing two jobs with opposite lifetimes.
- "this context HOLDS rule 156" — false after a compaction, and three hooks
read it to decide whether to stay quiet. Clearing it is correct.
- "rule 156 WAS OPENED" — which no compaction makes untrue, and which the
session-end readout is built on.
`scribe_clear_session_ledgers` sweeps every `<sid>*.ids` on SessionStart
source=compact. Right for the first claim, and it was deleting the second.
The TTL did the same thing more quietly: `scribe_rules_live` ages an
exclusion ledger, which is right, and would have eaten the early part of any
long session's evidence too.
So the readout was reporting only the stretch since the last compaction while
reading as though it had reported the session — a statistic that cannot vary
being mistaken for a finding (#3311), which is the shape this whole milestone
exists to stop producing. It ran AT the seam it was blind to.
THE SPLIT. `scribe_rules_append` now writes both: the exclusion ledger it
always wrote, and `<kind>.keep.ids`, an evidence twin that is never aged and
never swept. The readout reads twins; the three `held` readers are untouched.
DERIVED, NOT LISTED, because a list is what broke this before — the comment
above the sweep says so about its own history. Every ledger written through
the appender gets a twin, including the next one somebody adds; a new ledger
is born on the swept side unless its name opts out. `scribe_checkpoint_allowed`
writes its twin explicitly since it bypasses the appender, and there the split
lands right on both sides: the cap counts the swept file, so a compaction
honestly restores the budget to stop an act the context can no longer justify,
while the record that a stop happened stays.
Removed `scribe_ledger_ids`, orphaned by the change — a dead helper beside a
live one is a thing the next reader trusts.
test_session_ledger_clear.py asserted every ledger dies and could not have
caught this: its fixture never created a twin, so the sweep was one glob away
from either mistake with only one of them guarded. Both sides now asserted.
The slippage tests build their ledgers through the real writers rather than
by hand, for the same reason — a fixture that writes the bytes itself keeps
passing after the writer stops.
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.