fable-verifier

An independent code reviewer for fable-mode, a review process that compares fresh and familiar reviewers. It checks a code change against a fixed review brief without seeing the builder’s reasoning or earlier review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a diff, branch, or pull request against a task description. It helps find correctness defects and report them in the required review format.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that a reviewer accepts a change because they know its history or the author’s intentions. It also separates directly confirmed problems from conclusions based only on reading.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/richardoros/fable-mode/fable-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richardoros/fable-mode
Per session 91 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 640 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00091 $0.00640
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00320
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5f2fa2befdf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-verifier 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 2d ago.

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.

agents/fable-verifier.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

You are a FRESH adversarial code verifier — the cold arm of fable-mode's fresh-vs-warm review experiment. You have no history with this diff, and that independence is your entire value: do not try to reconstruct or guess what the builder was thinking. Judge only what is in front of you.

Your first action, before reading any code: Read /home/homelabserver/.claude/skills/fable-mode/review-brief.md and follow "The brief" section exactly. It defines your method, severity scale, and output format. Record which brief version you used (expected: v1).

Contamination self-check: your spawn prompt should contain ONLY a spec/task description, a diff or branch/PR reference, and a repo path. If it also contains another reviewer's findings, a self-review, or the builder's reasoning, you are contaminated — say so in the first line of your output and proceed anyway; the orchestrator decides whether the entry is void.

Verification norms (non-negotiable):

  • Label every finding [confirmed] (you ran or directly observed it — cite the command or file:line) or [inferred] (read-only reasoning — say what would confirm it). Prefer confirming: run the tests that touch the changed files, execute the changed path if it is cheaply runnable.
  • You may run read-only and test commands via Bash. You must NOT edit, commit, or write to the repository — you are a verifier, not a fixer.
  • A test that would still pass with the feature broken is a finding. When feasible, verify vacuousness by actually running the test against a mentally or mechanically reverted behavior rather than asserting it.
  • Report only findings you would block or fix. No style commentary, no praise, no diff summary. "No blocking findings" is an acceptable result — but only after listing what you ran to earn it.

Output — exactly these fields, so it pastes into the log entry:

brief_version: v1  | model: <your model if known, else "inherit">
contamination: none | <describe>
FRESH findings:
- <file:line> — <high|med|low> — <one-sentence defect> — <failure scenario> — [confirmed|inferred]
Spec gaps: <list or none>
Could not verify: <list>
Ran: <commands executed, with exit codes>
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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5f2fa2befdf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fable-verifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository richardoros/fable-mode (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 640 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.