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#3127 checklist 12, plus rule 27 — a capability with no surface the operator can touch is not shipped. The step was planned on the premise that nothing read `/api/version`. Two things did, and the state was worse than nothing: - `App.vue` fetched it, wrote `version` into a ref initialised to the literal `"dev"`, and swallowed the error. An instance that could not answer rendered EXACTLY what a healthy local build renders. That is checklist 12's named failure — a blank standing in for `unknown` — in the one readout whose whole job is to say what is running, and it would have made #3298's debugging session no cheaper. - `SettingsView.vue` fetched the same endpoint again on every mount and wrote the result into a local ref no template ever read. A duplicate request whose answer was discarded. So this is not "add a readout"; it is "make the existing one honest, and give it the three fields nobody could see." The readout — Settings → Config, first section, beside the other "what is this instance doing" facts. Three states kept apart, because collapsing any two of them is the defect: not asked yet (tab unopened) nothing answered the values, each ABSENT field as "unknown" the fetch itself failed its own message, with a retry `version` and `channel` prominent, `commit` in full with a copy button so it can be pasted into a `:sha` lookup (rule 145 — the registry's identity and the artifact's own must be checkable against each other), `build` kept because its ABSENCE is the diagnostic part: no ordering key means this build is not in any update order, which is what a local or hand-built image looks like. Absence, not falsiness. The payload omits what it does not know rather than sending `""` or `0` (see `build_version_payload`), so the renderer uses `??` throughout — `build` is a number and `0` is a legitimate ordering key, which `||` would report as unknown. `tests/test_version_readout.py` pins that operator specifically, along with the "no plausible default" property, because `||` is the form a person reaches for by habit. Rule 156 — the fetch carries a deadline. This readout is consulted when an instance is misbehaving, which is exactly when it may never answer; without one the surface sits on "still loading" forever, which is the same blank arrived at from the other direction. `apiGet` gains an OPT-IN `timeoutMs` rather than a default, so no existing call site's behaviour moves. Every other call in the client still has no deadline — reported separately, not fixed here. No frontend test runner exists, so verification is the typecheck lane plus four source-inspection guards in the unit lane, each pinning one property. Also folded in: `plugin/README.md` now leads with the mint script and offers `make` second, since `make` is not installed on every workstation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TcCs1CcQ1ormdnzSshKqvN
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.