The other half of the bargain in milestone 416 step 4. The model moves these dials; this is what makes that reviewable rather than merely automatic. THE HOLE THIS CLOSES Every retrieval floor is an ordinary settings key, and `/api/settings` accepts any key at all. A floor written through it landed correctly and recorded nothing — a tuning history with holes in it, which is worse than no history because it reads as complete. So the generic endpoint now routes registry-owned keys through `set_dial` instead of writing them as plain rows. ROUTED, not refused: refusing would only work for callers that had been updated, while this way the form, a script, and an old client all leave the trail, and there is no version of "forgot to use the other endpoint". Clearing a control is written as an explicit set back to the shipped default, because the operator reverting something is the single most important move this history can record. `set_dial` now also refuses to record a no-op. The Settings form re-sends every field on every save, so without that one press of Save would write six rows saying the operator set six dials to the numbers they were already on — and a history nobody can skim is one nobody reads. WHAT THE OPERATOR GETS `/api/retrieval/surfaces`, `/surfaces/<name>` and `/tuning-history`, with `actor` fixed server-side rather than taken from the payload: a payload-supplied actor would let a model claim to be the operator, and "did I do this, or did the session?" is the first question this list is asked. In Settings: the five missing BUDGETS (until now only auto-inject had one, so the only control over a noisy surface was to raise its bar — which discards that surface's best candidates along with its worst), and a "What has been tuned" panel showing each change, who made it, and the reason given. The operator's own changes are marked. The MCP tool demands a reason; these endpoints do not. That asymmetry is deliberate and stated in routes/retrieval.py: the requirement exists to make the MODEL read the records before moving a number on someone else's behalf, and the operator is that someone — a mandatory justification box on every control would be friction charged to the one participant who owes no explanation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <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.