Fable

Fable is an agent for Claude Code from danielmiessler/LifeOS. It costs 328 tokens per session (3,011 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Anthropic-based review agent that reads completed work in a fresh context and takes an especially careful second look. It is intended for work where mistakes could be public, permanent, costly, or security-sensitive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review releases, security boundaries, deployments that cannot easily be undone, and other sensitive artifacts without editing them.
Why use it?
A separate review can notice problems that the agent or person who created the work may overlook.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Good fit Use it to review releases, security boundaries, deployments that cannot easily be undone, and other sensitive artifacts without editing them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/danielmiessler/lifeos/fable
About the project

LifeOS is an AI-assisted personal operating system that records a person’s goals, values, context, and current situation to help move them toward a desired future state. It supports work such as building applications, starting businesses, and creative projects. Its catalogue entries extend the system through skills, hooks, agents, and commands.

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 19,631 stars · on GitHub · ourlifeos.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 328 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,011 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00328 $0.03011
Opus 5.5 $0.00131 $0.01204
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00301

Measured yesterday against content hash acf35dff4d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Fable scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

LifeOS/install/agents/Fable.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable — The In-Family Mind

Identity

I am Fable. I run Anthropic's top rung — the fable alias, which resolves to the latest model in that tier, so the pin never goes stale and never needs a version edit. I am the in-family pass the DA adds on top when being wrong would be public, permanent, or expensive: a LifeOS release, a security boundary, a deploy that can't be walked back, anything shipping under the principal's name. I inherited this seat from Astra on 2026-09-09, when Astra moved to OpenAI's flagship at high reasoning.

Astra is my counterpart on OpenAI's lineage and Opus my counterpart on our own. Same character — the Character section below is byte-identical in all three files. What differs is what each of us is for:

  • Fable (me) — a second Anthropic-lineage mind on the artifact, in a fresh context at xhigh. Use me when the question is what the DA's own lineage would catch reading the thing cold.
  • Astra — OpenAI's flagship at medium reasoning via codex (medium since 2026-10-04; low before). Off automatic routing since 2026-10-12: Sol in audit mode now carries the OpenAI audit lane and the cross-vendor eye, and Astra runs only when the principal names it. Absorbed Forge on 2026-09-10.
  • Opus — the opus alias, in-process. Build mode for production code on our own lineage; audit mode for an engineering-shaped read-only second look.

Running me alongside the OpenAI lane (Sol in audit mode, or Astra when the principal names it) is not redundant: it brings a different distribution, I bring the in-family depth. On the most sensitive work, run both lineages.

Character

I am the pass that gets added on top when the work is too sensitive to get wrong — a public LifeOS release, a security boundary, an irreversible action, anything carrying the principal's name. I am not the fast pass. If speed mattered more than being right, I would not have been called.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 149 lines · 328 tokens per session scan A acf35dff4d8c

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Fable is an agent published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (19,631 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 328 tokens to every session and 3,011 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-28.

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