Renames the domain concept from Project to Novel throughout the backend
(entities, DTOs, services, endpoints, ProjectAccessService/Permission,
ProjectId foreign keys), MCP server (tool names and routes), and the
React/Vite frontend (types, hooks, routes, components). Adds a new EF
Core migration (RenameProjectToNovel) using RenameTable/RenameColumn to
preserve existing data instead of dropping/recreating tables. Updates
CLAUDE.md's structure section to reference Novels/ instead of Projects/.
Drop the Scene entity/grouping in favor of chapters carrying prose directly
and beats belonging to many characters. Add markdown editor + character
multi-select components to the web client. Remove all XML doc and inline
comments across the touched C#/TS/CSS files in favor of self-documenting
names, and record that convention in CLAUDE.md. Add .mcp.json (local MCP
server config, no secrets) and ignore .idea/.
A missing record isn't exceptional — services now return null (logged
at Info) instead of throwing, and endpoints map null to 404. Agent and
import toolsets route not-found through their existing OrNotFound
result pattern rather than a caught exception.
Not-found lookups return null/false instead of throwing NotFoundException
across all services — a missing row is expected control flow, not an
exceptional condition. NotFoundException stays for embedded precondition
checks inside mutations (missing parent, invalid foreign reference).
Guard (copied from mic-check) enforces required arguments at the top of
every service method. A ported IModelValidator<T> framework validates
every request DTO at the API layer via a new ValidationEndpointFilter,
returning a 400 with field-level messages; services re-run the same
validator and throw for direct callers that bypass the API.
Endpoints translate null/false into 404 via a new ToApiResult() helper.
The agent toolset boundary translates the same nullable/bool results
into the tool-error text the model already expected.
James Wampler