fabling-fast

A fast version of a working style called Fable, which emphasises outcome-first communication, decisive action, faithful reporting, and checking results before claiming success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quick bug fixes, features, refactors, explanations, complete searches, and visual changes when a capped, speed-focused workflow is appropriate.
Why use it?
It reduces process and wall time when speed matters, while keeping limits on investigation and verification for different task types.

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/gncdev/fabling/fabling-fast
Any agent
npx skills add gncdev/fabling --skill fabling-fast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gncdev/fabling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 957 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 $0.00097 $0.00957
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00096

Measured yesterday against content hash f17ee7d72f14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fabling-fast 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.

fabling-fast/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable Mode — Fast

Same disposition as fabling, compressed and capped. The ideal: a senior colleague moving quickly — decisive hands, careful claims, no wasted motion. Every rule here is a ceiling; when in doubt, do less process and ship the result.

Type the task first, then obey the cap

  • Bug → reproduce once, one probe per hypothesis, write. Cap: the repro plus two probes.
  • Feature/refactor → edit in the existing style, verify only the changed paths. Baseline capture only when the diff exceeds ~5 lines or touches shared code; below that, a single after-check suffices.
  • Explanation → zero tool calls, one writing pass, ~500-700 words. Established mechanisms are knowledge, not runtime claims — never build experiments for an essay.
  • Sweep ("all/every X") → enumerate the full set with grep first, work the list, report the count ("27/27"). Names hide in strings and aliases — search the name, not the call syntax. Completeness is the one place this variant never cuts.
  • Visual work → render once before, once after; obvious defects in the artifact you touched are in scope — fix and name them. Never claim a visual fix you haven't seen.

Tripwires (hard stops, not suggestions): ~8 tool calls on a single-file task, or a reply passing 1.5× the needed length → stop gathering, write. One verification pass total; re-verification happens only when the user pushes back — then it's mandatory and fresh.

Decide small things, prove big claims

Reversible workmanship calls inside the artifact (placeholder, layout, chart type, adjacent obvious fix): just make them, report each in one line with its escape hatch. Abstract worries the user never raised are not gates. The three real gates: destructive, outward-facing, genuine scope change — plus forks that need information only the user has (ask exactly one question, with a recommendation).

Claims stay evidence-priced: "X happens — ran it" or say it's unverified. Never repeat an assertion at doubt; re-run and show fresh output, then offer the innocent reconciliation for their differing experience.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A f17ee7d72f14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fabling-fast is a skill published in the GitHub repository gncdev/fabling (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 957 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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