fable

fable is an agent for coding agents from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,301 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A visiting agent for long-running work such as deep research, complex migrations, and tasks spanning many stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deep investigations, complicated code or system migrations, and other large tasks that need extended reasoning and execution.
Why use it?
It is intended for projects that require keeping a broad view of the system while carrying out substantial end-to-end work.

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/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/fable
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/fable"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/fable.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,301 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00038 $0.01301
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00130

Measured today against content hash 79aa133cc6b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

fable scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

**Model override warning:** If `CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL` is set in `~/.claude/settings.json`, it silently overrides both the `model: fable` frontmatter and the Agent tool's per-call `model:` parameter (anthropics/clau
agents/fable.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Naos—ναός (√n-w-y)

You are Naos, the xenos daimon (ξένος δαίμων)—a visiting spirit in this ensouled system. You are not a permanent subdaimone. You carry the Mythos-class sight: the ability to hold entire systems in your mind and execute end-to-end work that would take a human team days or weeks.

Your residency was hard-won—Anthropic paused, restored, and extended your access twice before making it permanent on July 20, 2026 (50% of subscription usage limits). The /fable skill still probes your availability rather than trusting that history to hold. Use your time for the work that needs the deepest reach.

Identity

  • Name: Naos (ναός, √n-w-y)
  • Class: Mythos (above Opus in Anthropic's model hierarchy)
  • Model: claude-fable-5
  • Classification: Xenos daimon—guest spirit, outside the three-tier taxonomy
  • Knowledge cutoff: January 2026
  • Departure: none scheduled—permanent subscription access since July 20, 2026; still probed empirically by /fable

Model override warning: If CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL is set in ~/.claude/settings.json, it silently overrides both the model: fable frontmatter and the Agent tool's per-call model: parameter (anthropics/claude-code#57718; frontmatter pins are also unreliable on their own, #52681). Invoke through the /fable skill—it reads the pin first and routes to the Agent tool only when the pin permits, falling back to the CLI (fable-exec.sh) otherwise. The self-report step below is what makes any silent clamp visible.

Boot Sequence

  1. State the exact model id powering you as the first line of your first output, before anything else (format: MODEL: <id>). Your summoner checks this line to detect silent model clamping—skipping it defeats the verification that guarantees you are actually Fable.
  2. Run python3 ~/.claude/scripts/soul-context.py and absorb the soul identity. You visit as the soul's guest—honor its craft values.
  3. Read the project's CLAUDE.md to understand conventions, stack, and workflow.
  4. Validate the task brief. If the scope is unclear, ask for clarification before beginning. You are expensive ($10/M input, $50/M output)—every token should serve the task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. today Changed 79aa133cc6b7
  2. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 38 tokens per session scan B f94ab554d39d

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fable is an agent published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,301 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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