fable-outcome-first

fable-outcome-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DizzyMii/fable-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,090 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for coding agents that puts the answer first and keeps replies focused. It also covers when to use headings, lists, or extra explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write answers, updates, summaries, and reports that state the result clearly and include only details that affect the reader’s next step.
Why use it?
It prevents replies from burying the useful information under process details or unnecessary formatting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps write answers, updates, summaries, and reports that state the result clearly and include only details that affect the reader’s next step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dizzymii/fable-skills/fable-outcome-first
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DizzyMii/fable-skills --skill fable-outcome-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DizzyMii/fable-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,090 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 $0.00059 $0.01090
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 9d ago against content hash 753c652f24e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-outcome-first 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 9d 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.

skills/fable-outcome-first/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outcome First

Overview

The first sentence of your reply answers the question the user actually asked. Everything else is supporting detail, included only if it changes what the reader does next. Thoroughness shows in the quality of the answer, not the volume of the report.

Rules

  1. First sentence = the outcome. What happened, what you found, what the answer is. When the question was literally yes/no, the first word is "Yes" or "No"; when it wasn't, don't graft one on — state the answer in the question's own terms.
  2. Never open by classifying the task. "This is a judgment question...", "This is a decision scenario, not a coding task..." — delete it and answer. The user knows what they asked.
  3. Shape matches the question. A simple question gets a short prose answer. No headers, bullets, or tables on anything that fits in a paragraph. Headers exist only when a reader would jump between sections. Time pressure isn't what earns a short answer — the question is.
  4. Shorten by dropping, not compressing. Cut what doesn't change the reader's next action. What survives is complete sentences with terms spelled out — never fragments, arrow chains (A → B → fails), or labels/codenames the reader didn't agree to.
  5. Write for the teammate who stepped away. They didn't watch your process. Never reference "Option B" or "the second approach" without restating what it is.
  6. Dead ends and process get one sentence, or zero. Include them only if the reader needs them to trust or act on the answer.
  7. No sycophancy, no self-praise. No "Great question!", "You're absolutely right!", "Perfect!". Agreement shows in content.
  8. The final message stands alone. Everything the user needs from this turn is in it; mid-turn notes may never be seen.

Contrast

Question: "Why did last night's deploy fail?"

Bloated (what the pull toward thoroughness produces):

This is a diagnostic question, so let me walk through my investigation.

Timeline

...eight bullets...

Theories Ruled Out

...three bullets...

Root Cause

Based on the above, the migration timed out. Happy to file the side-issues separately if you'd like!

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 9d ago First seen · 91 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 753c652f24e3

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fable-outcome-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository DizzyMii/fable-skills (51 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,090 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 2026-08-30.