Operator's new requirement (#2299, architecture in #2296): a design system does not just hold tokens, it generates and manages a master CSS sheet. That settles the milestone's open "authority mechanism" question — the record is authoritative because the stylesheet comes out of it. **The sheet is shaped by purpose and styles no elements.** It declares custom properties, grouped by what they mean, and contains no `.btn-primary`, no `table`, no `input`. That is the design, not a shortcut: a sheet that styled elements would restate the same handful of values once per element and grow with the UI, where purpose-named values are stated once and reused. Components live as SNIPPETS that reference these names — a surface that already exists and already carries prose, locations, drift checks, merge and write-path recall. A token named after an element (`--fs-button-bg`) is the smell that the two have been mixed; a purpose name (`--fs-action-primary`) is reused across all of them. Alongside the CSS the endpoint returns what the text cannot say for itself: which tokens are still valueless, and which VALUES are declared under more than one name. The second is the operator's "reuse consistent values" constraint made checkable — and it reports rather than refuses, because a design system legitimately aligns colours on purpose ("Success = Moss, by design") and only a human knows which case it is. Mode maps to selector the way the codebase already does it: base on the root selector, every other mode layered on `[data-theme="…"]`. The root selector is a PARAMETER — #251 recorded that a container-scoped preview cannot use `:root`, so hardcoding it would have made the generator useless to the preview surface. A token the rulebook names but states no value for is emitted as a commented-out declaration IN ITS GROUP rather than dropped. Its absence is the finding, and a comment puts that finding where the reader already is. Values are validated, not escaped, and this is a real boundary rather than tidiness: design systems are shareable records (rule #47), so `red; } body { display: none` in a system shared with you would otherwise inject CSS into your page. A value containing `{ } ; @ < >`, a comment delimiter or a newline is REFUSED and rendered as a comment saying so — rejecting beats stripping, since a partially-sanitised value is one the operator never wrote and the sheet's whole claim is that it is the record. Not in scope, and deliberately: serving this as the app's actual stylesheet. Generating and exposing a sheet is reversible; swapping theme.css for a generated one is not, and it should be an explicit call rather than a side effect.
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.