CI caught the previous commit: the fail-open contract asserts a hook stays SILENT with no working instance, and the new local arm deliberately speaks there. The invariant is right and the hook is right — the smoke event was wrong. It used `def f`, which this repo really does define, so the hook found something and "silent" was asserting the wrong thing. Fixed by asserting the two properties separately: - SILENT for a symbol that genuinely does not exist. - SPEAKING, with NO credentials, for one that does. That is the point of the arm — the other arms ask Scribe what was RECORDED; this one asks the repo what EXISTS, which needs no instance. Were it to start depending on configuration it would stop covering the case it was built for, and only this assertion would notice. Second trap, hit while fixing the first: spelling the absent symbol out in full wrote `def <name>(` into check_plugin.py, so the smoke event DEFINED the very symbol it claimed was missing, and the hook found it again. The name is now assembled from fragments so the contiguous string never appears in the source. scribe_prior_art.sh joins scribe_session_context.sh as a hook that legitimately produces output without credentials — for the same reason, that it carries something needing neither network nor config. 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.