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Step 1 found the reason the standard names never held, and it is sharper than "prose doesn't fire": the list WAS real and it WAS seeded — but only on the inception path, for a project with zero Systems. Ad-hoc create_system never consulted it, which is how Forge minted "CI and Release" and Portal minted "CI & release" after the constant already existed. This wires the vocabulary to the moment that mints a name. - services/systems.assess_system_name: the local duplicate gate AND the catalog lookup, in ONE service function both doors call. The gate lived only in the MCP tool, which is exactly how the web UI shipped without a check the agent surface enforced (#2482). REST now answers 409 with the System that already covers the area. - An `exact` catalog hit is APPLIED (mechanical — the names differ only in spelling). An `overlap` is only OFFERED, on both doors: applying a judgment call silently is how a cross-project rule surfaces in the wrong project. - canonical_systems.best_overlap is the ONE scorer behind the create-time offer and the review sweep, so the two surfaces can never name different areas for one System. It also takes the catalog the caller already holds, so the review is not an N+1. UI (folded in from step 1 — rule 27, that step shipped with no human surface): - SystemsSection: a Shared area picker on create and edit, the area on each card, and a collapsed review of proposals that appears only when there is something to decide. `exact` and `overlap` never share a style — one is mechanical, the other is the reviewer's judgment, and presenting them alike is how a wrong mapping gets waved through. - Settings → Admin → Areas: the catalog itself, showing each entry's slug, because the slug is what decides whether two names are the same area and a rename moves it. - A picker rather than a live matcher: reproducing the slug rule in TypeScript would give this feature two matchers to keep in step — the exact drift the catalog exists to end. The server stays authoritative. tests/helpers.fake_system gains canonical_id=None: an unnamed attribute is an auto-MagicMock and therefore truthy, which is the trap that helper exists for (note 2109) and a nullable FK walks straight into it. 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.