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Rules were the only major record type with no vector, so `search` could never return one and a rule could arrive only by being preloaded. That single fact is what made every rule compete for one always-on budget. THE DECISION THE TASK ASKED FOR, made explicitly: a sibling rule_embeddings table, not a polymorphic embedding row. The ROW could have been generalised; the SEARCH could not. semantic_search_notes is Note-specific scoping end to end — the visibility clause, the supersession penalty, note_type/task_kind/system filters — and a rule shares none of it, scoping instead by rulebook ownership or project. Generalising the row while still needing two searches is the worst of both: a key with referential integrity to neither table, on the path every session start runs, to share four columns. What is genuinely common is BEHAVIOUR — get_embedding, chunk_document, embedding_text, CHUNKER_VERSION — and those are reused as-is. Sharing them is the DRY win; sharing the table would have been the DRY costume. The document shape is measured, not chosen (note 2485). That pass found the snippet was the only discriminative record in the corpus — a 0.153 top-to-second gap against 0.010-0.023 — and that the cause was its SHAPE: purpose stated twice in a short single-topic document. rule_document reproduces it: the trigger in the title AND as the body's first line. And it excludes `why`, which matters more than any of it. `why` is dated incident narrative — rule 46's runs to 4,300 characters — and long multi-topic prose is exactly what made sixteen dev-logs mutually indistinguishable. Adding it would not give the vector more to work with; it would give every rule the SAME thing to work with. rule_document takes no `why` parameter at all, so a well-meaning caller cannot pass one. A rule with no trigger degrades to title + statement — findable, less sharp. That is an argument for backfilling triggers (step 6), not for padding the document with whatever text is nearby. search(content_type="rule") returns the rule WITH its why and how_to_apply: they are its operational half, the session payload never carries them, and a caller who went looking should not have to re-fetch. Writes re-index fire-and-forget like notes; startup backfills in its own try block so neither backfill can skip the other. rule_embeddings is derived, so it joins note_embeddings in the backup's explicitly-NOT-included list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.