fable-help

A quick-reference skill for the fable family of commands, which are modes for structuring coding-agent work with specifications, checks, evidence, and recurring runs. It displays the reference card when requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Looking up fable commands, flags, companion skills, verification steps, and adapters. It only displays the reference card and does not activate a mode.
Why use it?
It helps users choose the right fable command and understand what each mode or companion command does.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ayborg43/fable-mode/fable-help
Any agent
npx skills add ayborg43/fable-mode --skill fable-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ayborg43/fable-mode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 530 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 $0.00064 $0.00530
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00265
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4b888cc14021, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-help 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.

companions/fable-help/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Fable Help

Display the reference card below verbatim (as markdown, not in a code fence), then stop. Do not activate fable-mode, do not summarize the card, do not add commentary beyond one closing line offering to expand on any entry.

The fable family

Modes (/fable-mode …)

Command What it does
/fable-mode <task> Full discipline: spec first, verification harness, delegation, memory, evidence-gated reporting
/fable-mode lite <task> Small tasks: spec + scope discipline + evidence rules only — no harness ceremony, no memory file
/fable-mode ultra <task> Full, plus a mandatory fresh-context verifier pass and ≥3 consecutive clean harness runs before any "done"
/fable-mode loop <task> Recurring/resumable runs: state file, iteration contract, git checkpoints, explicit termination checks. Combinable with a level: ultra loop
/fable-mode (bare) Confirms the mode is active and waits for a task

Companions

Command What it does
/fable-verify [target] Completion gate on existing work — verifies a diff/branch/claim with fresh eyes, evidence per condition. Changes nothing
/fable-help This card

Agent

fable-verifier — adversarial fresh-context verification sub-agent (installed at ~/.claude/agents/fable-verifier.md). Fable-mode spawns it automatically for the Phase 3 fresh-eyes pass; you can also invoke it directly via the Agent tool.

Auto-triggering

Fable-mode also activates without the slash command on phrases like "fable mode", "code like fable", "one-shot this", overnight/autonomous run requests, and complaints that previous work was sloppy or unverified.

Other tools

Adapters for Codex CLI, opencode, and AGENTS.md-aware tools (Cursor, Gemini CLI, aider, …) live in the repo's adapters/ folder — see the fable-mode README for install commands.

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 · 40 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4b888cc14021

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fable-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository ayborg43/fable-mode (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 530 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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