The payoff step: a rule stops having to be resident to be honoured. - list_always_on_rules returns the ALWAYS-ON tier only. It is the session-start call, made before any project is in scope, so there is no area vocabulary to match a conditional rule against yet. - get_applicable_rules carries a conditional rule when the project works in an area the rule is tagged to — resolved through systems.canonical_id, so the project's own NAME for the area is irrelevant, which is the entire reason the catalog exists. The gate is applied IN SQL, so `limit` counts rules that will actually surface rather than rules about to be dropped. - Bindingness is a deterministic TAG match, never a similarity score (D7). The vector channel stays a suggestion, in search. co_surfaced_partners is the fix that rule 144 never had. It was split off rule 46 and folded back the same day because "either rule could surface without the other and miss exposing a project to what the entire shape is intended to be" — correct, and merging was the only remedy available. Now a partner ARRIVES with its other half even when nothing else selected it, tagged `via: co_surfaces` so the payload says why. Two limits, both deliberate: only rules the caller owns, because an edge is not a back door into someone else's rulebook; and a project's suppressions are passed as exclusions, because an explicit mute is a decision and an edge does not outrank it. COMPATIBILITY, asserted first in the integration test rather than reasoned about: a rule with no tier, no areas and no edges binds exactly as it did before any of this existed. `tier` defaults to always_on, so an install upgrades and every rule it already had keeps arriving. Getting that backwards would silently stop enforcing rules people rely on, which is worse than any amount of payload bloat. Four unit tests were coupled to the ORDER of a mocked session's execute() calls, so a new query broke them. Rather than pad the sequence and deepen that coupling, the three post-query lookups are stubbed by name — they have their own coverage, and the real wiring is proven against Postgres. 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.