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The handshake carried the whole project record, every milestone's plan, full rule text, the notes most recently edited and ~9k of design guidance. For project 2 that was ~222k characters, past what an MCP client accepts as a tool result. Each category was walked through with the operator and sized to what a session needs on arrival; each names the call that has the rest. - project: id, title, status and the full goal (session start's "full goal" pointer still lands here). get_project keeps the whole record. - milestone_summary: the 5 most recently touched milestones, any status, most recent first, without plans. Summaries gain last_touched_at: the later of the milestone's own edit and its newest step update, from the query that already counts steps. milestone_summary_omitted counts the rest and points to list_milestones. get_project and list_milestones list every milestone, also without plans. - open_tasks: the 10 most recently touched open tasks, with or without a milestone, each naming its milestone. list_notes gains sort="touched" (the later of updated_at and the newest work-log), because a log doesn't bump updated_at. - recent_notes: dropped. Retrieval surfaces notes by relevance, and get_recent covers recency. - systems: id and name. - design_system: summary plus guidance_call. get_design_system gains resolved_guidance, the chain-merged prose; its own guidance field is only the departures, so session start's old pointer to it led to a fragment. The session start pointer and using-scribe's "Building UI" section now name resolved_guidance. - rules: rules_payload(brief=True) gives project_rules as id and title plus subscribed_rulebooks, and records only what it shows. Retrieval delivers rules in full and ignores subscriptions (#4052). Other callers unchanged. - pattern_coverage, inception and systems_bootstrap: unchanged. Clients: the plugin's using-scribe skill, the compaction notice and session start are updated here; the REST project summary only gains last_touched_at. Plugin version minted. Tests: a size ceiling on the handshake for a large project; milestone and task selection and naming; brief rules; resolved_guidance; the session start pointer; and a real-Postgres test that a work-log touches its task and a step update touches its milestone. 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.