#3127 checklist 19. The step's own deletion list turned out to be largely
spent: `check_version_bump()` came out with #3327, and the machinery the step
expected to delete alongside it is load-bearing for its replacement.

`manifest_version(ref=…)`, `--base`, `--no-version` and the `origin/main`
resolve path all STAY. Derivation makes the value right; it does not make the
comparison unnecessary. `check_version_is_minted` still has to ask "did the
version move when the shipped content did?", and that is a base-branch
question no matter who chose the number. The step was planned before #3327
landed, when the assumption was that these died with the guard.

What was actually still standing, all of it teaching or asserting the retired
scheme:

- `plugin/README.md` told the reader to "set a `version` bump per release."
  A shipped file, instructing the exact act the mint replaced — this is how a
  deleted control gets re-added by someone following the docs. Now says not to
  hand-edit the field, names `make mint-plugin`, and says what a forgotten
  mint costs. (`make` is not installed on every workstation, so the direct
  script invocation is given too.)
- `test_plugin_version_bumped_with_the_hook` asserted `version >= (0,1,31)`
  as a tuple of ints. Under a minted value it passes vacuously — every date
  clears a floor of 0.1.31 — and `int("0415")` silently eats the padding the
  format exists to keep. Superseded by
  `test_the_shipped_manifest_carries_a_minted_version`, which asserts the
  canonical shape instead of an ordering the comparator does not perform.
  Removed whole (rule 22).
- The module preamble still ended on "a written rule that depends on being
  remembered is not a control; this is" — true of the bump guard, and read as
  a stronger claim than the mint can support. Replaced with what the change
  did and did not remove: choosing a number is gone, running the mint is not,
  and the difference is that forgetting is now loud rather than silent.
- An orphaned `# --- the version bump ---` section header with nothing under
  it, and a test docstring still naming `check_version_bump`.

`--no-version` keeps its one legitimate case — on `main` the version is
measured against itself — and now says so in both the usage block and its
`--help`, so it does not read as an escape hatch. `check_session_context_
reports_its_version` stays untouched: a different check with a different job,
and the only thing that makes step 6 readable from a transcript (#2220).

Version minted 2026.09.02.0415 -> 2026.09.02.0438 for the README change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TcCs1CcQ1ormdnzSshKqvN

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commands

feat(plugin): Phase 4 — Scribe Processes auto-surface as local skills

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hooks

feat(rules): a session is told when its rules move under it (#3244 , milestone 323 step 5)

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skills

fix(rules): the staleness signal must not wait for prior art to match (#3244 )

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README.md

Scribe plugin for Claude Code

Turns a self-hosted Scribe instance into a first-class Claude Code extension:

MCP tools over your notes, tasks, projects, milestones, systems, and rulebook (the scribe server).
Session-start push channel — a SessionStart hook injects your always-on rules + active-project context so Scribe surfaces without being asked.
Prior-art recall on writes — a PreToolUse hook on Write/Edit checks the file about to be written against your recorded snippets (what's kept at that path, and what resembles the code) and offers them before the helper is rewritten. Titles only, never blocks the edit.
Universal process-skills — using-scribe, writing-plans, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code (record and recall reusable code as snippets). Replaces superpowers.
Your Scribe Processes as skills — saved Processes are synced into local ~/.claude/skills/scribe-proc-* stubs that auto-surface by relevance; the stub fetches the live procedure via get_process. Refreshed each session and on demand with /scribe:sync.

It is designed so you can uninstall superpowers and disable auto-memory and depend on neither.

Install

The plugin ships inside the Scribe app repo, so the marketplace is that repo — you always get the plugin version that matches your Scribe instance.

/plugin marketplace add https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/FabledScribe.git
/plugin install scribe@scribe-plugin

On install you'll be asked for:

Setting	What
Scribe base URL	e.g. `https://scribe.example.com` (no trailing slash)
Scribe API key	an `fmcp_` key from Settings → API Keys (stored in your OS keychain)
Active project id	optional — numeric project id to scope the session-start context

What gets wired

plugin.json mcpServers → the scribe MCP server at <base URL>/mcp (Bearer auth).
hooks/hooks.json → SessionStart hook (hooks/scribe_session_context.sh), fail-open: if Scribe is unreachable it injects nothing and never blocks the session.
hooks/hooks.json → PreToolUse hook on Write|Edit (hooks/scribe_prior_art.sh) → GET /api/plugin/prior-art. Returns additionalContext with no permission decision, so it can inform the write but never stop it; silent when nothing is recorded, which is most of the time. Two framings: a REUSE menu (similar/nearby records), and a SYNC nudge when a snippet records the exact file being edited — "updating the record is part of the edit" — each with its own once-per-session dedup. A third, ledger-fed line names a duplicate family (no canon) or a canon recorded elsewhere for the names being written (its own dedup channel, exclude_derive). Fail-open but not fail-silent: a configured instance that does not answer in time is said, once per outage ("Scribe did not answer … this write went UNCHECKED"), so a session can tell "checked, nothing there" from "never checked"; an answer clears the marker. The local by-name arm needs no server and always runs. Toggle in Settings → Knowledge auto-inject.
hooks/hooks.json → PostToolUse hook on Bash (hooks/scribe_after_write.sh): code written through sed/heredocs/scripts never reaches the PreToolUse hook, so this one diffs the working tree after every Bash call (per-session path+blob snapshot; one git status when nothing changed) and runs the same arms on the definitions just written, through the same endpoint and the same dedup channels. additionalContext only; never blocks, and shares the pre-write hook's once-per-outage "did not answer" line (8 s budget here — it runs after the tool, so it gates nothing). The extractor, the prose/data skip list, the local by-name duplicate arm and the outage line are shared in hooks/scribe_defs.sh.
skills/ → the universal process-skills, surfaced by description match.
hooks/scribe_sync_processes.sh (a 2nd SessionStart hook) + the /scribe:sync command → generate ~/.claude/skills/scribe-proc-* stubs from your Scribe Processes (via GET /api/plugin/processes); also fail-open, and pruned to match what exists in Scribe.

Notes

Do not hand-edit version in .claude-plugin/plugin.json. It is minted from the clock — run make mint-plugin (or python3 scripts/mint_plugin_version.py) after changing anything under plugin/, and commit the result. The installer decides whether to refresh the cache it executes from by comparing that string, so content that ships without a new version reaches the repo and stops there (#2209). CI fails the lane if you forget.
The session-start, auto-inject and prior-art hooks need only a read-scoped key; the MCP tools need write scope to create/update. Every hook is a GET for that reason — a read key cannot POST.