Every hook opened `command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0`, so on a machine without jq the operator got no session context, no rules, no prior art and no process sync — and not one word saying why, because `exit 0` is indistinguishable from "ran fine, nothing to say". jq is absent by default on macOS, on the Debian/Ubuntu slim images, on Alpine and in most CI containers. That is not a prerequisite to document; it is the plugin handing its own packaging problem to whoever installs it. `tac` was worse: GNU-only, so the prior-art hook's enclosing-definition arm did nothing at all on every Mac, silently, from the day it shipped. It is not replaced but removed — scribe_defs judges each line independently, so extracting forward and taking `tail -1` is the same answer as reversing and taking the head, and it drops the early-exit `head` that #4042 was filed for. No server contract changed, so a lagging plugin cache keeps working. scribe_json.awk JSON -> IDX<TAB>PATH<TAB>VALUE. Two modes: `whole` for an event or a response body, `lines` for a transcript, where an unparseable record is dropped and the rest still read — the `map(try fromjson catch empty)` the jq program opened with. Arrays also report their LENGTH at `[#]`, which is what keeps "zero notes" distinct from "no answer" (#2932). scribe_turn.awk the turn-bounding program, replacing the thirty lines of jq in the Stop hook. scribe_defs.sh scribe_json_flat / _pick / _list / _len / _list_minus read, scribe_json_out writes the envelope (five copies of one shape, gone), scribe_urlenc replaces `jq -sRr '@uri'`. Percent-encoding goes through `od -tu1` rather than an awk character loop on purpose: awk's idea of a character follows the locale, so gawk reads an accented letter as one and mawk as two, and an encoder built on substr() would emit a different URL depending on which awk is installed. Encoding is defined on bytes. Verified byte-identical to `jq -sRr '@uri'`. Measured, not assumed. The per-event path costs 8ms against jq's 3ms. The transcript path was 70x slower until two fixes: the Stop hook now finds where the turn starts with a fixed-string grep before parsing (a needle carrying unescaped quotes cannot occur inside a JSON string, so it matches only at a record's top level — checked against a full JSON parse of a 27MB transcript: 152 prompt records, 152 matches, no misses, no extras), and the parser reads each token out of a 1024-byte window instead of copying the rest of the buffer per token, which was quadratic in line length on the 400KB tool results a transcript carries. Differential-tested against the jq program it replaces over 724 windows cut from three real transcripts — 724 identical, 0 mismatched, 45 of them exercising a real task close and a real reply. That sweep is what caught `scribe_turn.awk` never setting FS, which truncated every multi-word reply at its first space and was invisible to a test whose replies were all empty. check_plugin.py's `jq -R` lint becomes a guard against either binary coming back, and three smoke checks lose their `shutil.which("jq")` skip. jq is not in `ci-python` either, so those three announced a skip on every CI run and had never once run there: removing the dependency from the product also closed a permanent hole in its verification. They pass now across all ten hooks. tests/test_hook_json_reader.py is a differential against Python's `json` over nested objects, arrays, unicode, escapes, control characters, empty cases and a value longer than the token window, plus the envelope, the encoder and the turn analyzer. 139 cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <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.