FabledScribe

Scribe has never read a line of the codebase. Every Drafter surface recalls
from the RECORD — things someone deliberately recorded — so a helper nobody
thought to record is invisible to all of them. That is how `.btn-primary` came
to be defined four times, in four scoped stylesheets, already diverged: it was
never a snippet, so no threshold and no query rewrite could ever have surfaced
it (#2280).

The write-path hook already runs on the developer's machine, inside the repo,
holding the code about to be written. It can simply look. No index, no storage,
no staleness story, no server round-trip.

Verified against this repo with Scribe unconfigured:

    .btn-primary is already defined in 4 other file(s):
      DesignSystemsView.vue ProjectListView.vue SettingsView.vue
      SnippetEditorView.vue

Three properties it needs, all checked by hand:

- DEFINITION-shaped patterns only. Grepping bare occurrences would match every
  call site and bury the real finding, and a hint that is mostly noise is one
  people learn to skip — worse than none. A payload containing only calls to
  embed_note() stays silent; one containing `def embed_note` does not.
- The target file is excluded, so editing the file that already defines
  something doesn't report it against itself.
- It runs when Scribe is UNCONFIGURED, and a failed request no longer discards
  it. The remote arms answer "what was recorded"; this one answers "what
  exists", and that question needs no instance to produce an answer. `curl ||
  exit 0` became `curl || true` for the same reason.

Plugin 0.1.21 -> 0.1.22.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs

2026-07-31 23:43:58 -04:00

plugin.json

feat(prior-art): ask the repo, not just the record, before writing a definition

2026-07-31 23:43:58 -04:00