Two reports, one root cause each. **The dead button.** "Create the first one" set `showCreate = true`, but the create form lived inside `<div v-else class="ds-body">` — the sibling branch of the empty state. The two are mutually exclusive, so on a fresh install the flag flipped and nothing rendered. The first action a new install can take was the one that didn't work, which is a poor way to honour "an install with zero design systems is the ordinary state". The first system now gets its own form outside the list layout, and it drops the parent picker entirely: there is nothing to inherit from yet, so it says so instead of offering an empty select. **Two surfaces, the wrong one first.** /design and /design-systems are halves of one thing — the record that decides the styling, and what the browser renders from it — and I had added them as two separate nav entries with the read-only diagnostic listed first. Backwards: the record is what you work with; the live view is the check on it. Now one nav entry pointing at the record, with a shared tab bar joining the two. The explorer is renamed "Live tokens", which is what it actually shows. The tab bar is a component rather than the same markup in both views. Two copies diverge the moment a third tab appears — and a design surface that ships duplicated markup would be arguing against itself.
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.