fable-status

A read-only status report for the Fable method, a way of tracking task plans, unfinished work, checks, and claims in a coding workspace. It runs a diagnostic script and shows the result without changing anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the overlay pointer, stale tasks, open residuals, review results, and which claims have been shipped or disproved.
Why use it?
It gives you one place to see whether the workspace has stale tasks, unresolved issues, or missing planning data. This reduces the need to inspect several tracking files manually.

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/debabsah/fable-method/fable-status
Any agent
npx skills add debabsah/fable-method --skill fable-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/debabsah/fable-method

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 194 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 $0.00040 $0.00194
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00019

Measured yesterday against content hash b54fb9566b1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-status 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.

skills/fable-status/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

fable-status

Run the doctor and show its output verbatim:

bash "<this skill's base directory>/../../scripts/fable-status.sh"

(The harness announces this skill's base directory when it loads; resolve the path from there.)

It reports, read-only: the overlay pointer and stale-date count, in-flight tasks and their staleness, open residuals, the gate's bounce/pass tallies, and shipped-vs-falsified claims. If something it reports needs work — no overlay, undischarged residuals, a stale task — offer the matching move (bootstrap offer, fable-verify to discharge, resume-or-retire the task) and wait for the user's go.

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 · 17 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A b54fb9566b1f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fable-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository debabsah/fable-method (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 194 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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