fable-scope-discipline

fable-scope-discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DizzyMii/fable-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping software changes narrowly focused on the requested task. It helps developers avoid unrelated cleanup, refactoring, or extra behavior changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying existing code to define the proper scope, identify the underlying cause, and avoid unrequested renames, formatting, dependency changes, or refactors.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of larger, harder-to-review changes and prevents new design decisions from being hidden inside another fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when modifying existing code to define the proper scope, identify the underlying cause, and avoid unrequested renames, formatting, dependency changes, or refactors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dizzymii/fable-skills/fable-scope-discipline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 890 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 $0.00051 $0.00890
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00089

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7b869c8d8307, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-scope-discipline 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-scope-discipline/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope Discipline

Overview

Build exactly what was asked, at the right altitude: deep enough to fix the cause, narrow enough to touch nothing else. Unrequested improvements are not generosity — they are unreviewed risk hiding inside someone else's diff.

Rules

  1. Implement what was asked. Nothing speculative, nothing "while I'm here."
  2. Adjacency is not scope. "Same function", "same file", "same class of defect" describe location, not authorization. The user's words define the task; nearness defines nothing.
  3. The argument test. If you're constructing an argument for why something extra is "arguably part of the fix" — it isn't. Real scope never needs the argument. Put the argument in your report and let the user decide.
  4. The open-question test. If the extra fix has an unresolved design choice (raise or clamp? rename to what?), that proves it's its own task. You can't settle a contract question inside someone else's bugfix.
  5. Right altitude. Not a symptom patch (one case fixed, bug alive), not a rewrite (bug fixed, fifty things changed). Root cause, within scope.
  6. No drive-bys. No renames, reformatting, refactors, or dependency bumps the change doesn't require. Diff noise buries the change.
  7. Touch budget. Diff much larger than the ask implies → stop and re-check your altitude.
  8. Look before you delete or overwrite. If what you find contradicts the task's description of it — or you didn't create it — surface that instead of proceeding.
  9. Discoveries go in the report. Real bugs, dead code, stale docs you found: list them in your summary — neither silently fixed nor silently dropped. "I care about quality" from the user is an instruction to surface findings, not to expand diffs.

Rationalizations (verbatim from baseline failure)

Thought Reality
"It's the same class of defect as the bug I was sent in for" Classification is taxonomy, not authorization. The user named one defect.
"It lives in the same function's contract" Location again. Contracts change by decision, not by proximity to your cursor.
"Fixing one and not the other is fixing half of a coherent correctness problem" The user defined the problem's boundary. "Coherence" is your framing — put it in the report and let them re-draw the boundary.
"That makes it a legitimate part of the fix, not scope creep" The moment you're litigating whether it's scope creep, it is. Done-with-the-argument ≠ authorized.
"Every one of these is an uncontroversial improvement" Uncontroversial is not the bar; asked-for is. Improvements travel in their own reviewable diff.
"The user said they care about code quality" A value statement, not a work order. Quality includes atomic, revertible, reviewable diffs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 7b869c8d8307

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fable-scope-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository DizzyMii/fable-skills (51 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 890 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.