concept-fable

concept-fable is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hawkongz/concept-fable. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,711 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story-based explainer for abstract ideas. It uses a fable or analogy first, then explains the concept clearly at the end.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks for a story, fable, analogy, or an explanation suitable for a five-year-old.
Why use it?
It helps people understand difficult ideas intuitively when a textbook-style definition is hard to remember or picture.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when someone asks for a story, fable, analogy, or an explanation suitable for a five-year-old.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hawkongz/concept-fable/concept-fable
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,711 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 $0.00067 $0.03711
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01855
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00742
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00371

Measured 9d ago against content hash c001db1c746a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept-fable 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.

SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Concept Fable Explainer

Overview

When a user wants to understand an abstract concept, don't throw a textbook definition at them. Instead, craft a carefully designed fable. The reader becomes immersed, only realizing near the end what it's about — then receives a clear explanation.

Core principle: Let them realize through story, not remember through definition.

Workflow

Follow these 8 steps:

Step 1 — Understand the Concept

  1. If you fully grasp the concept, proceed directly to the next step.
  2. If anything is unclear, search or consult authoritative sources.
  3. Distill 2–3 core elements: the central tension, the key mechanism, and why it matters.
  4. Map out the concept's causal chain — a step-by-step breakdown of how the concept actually works: what triggers what, in what order, leading to what outcome. This is the plot-level blueprint: your story must reproduce this exact sequence, not just graze the theme.

Relationship between core elements and metaphor points: Every core element must have a corresponding metaphor point that maps to it (this is the minimum). Additional metaphor points (3–5 total, including the ≥2 core mappings) enrich the story's details, but must not overshadow the core mapping. In short: Core elements: ≥2 must be mapped. Total metaphor points: 3–5.

Step 2 — Confirm Scope & Scene (As Needed)

Check with the user when:

  • The concept has multiple branches or schools of thought (e.g., "consistency" means different things in different contexts)
  • The concept has different interpretations across domains
  • The user's phrasing is vague and could mean several things

Confirm understanding: "So this concept is essentially about ______, and the key insight is ______ — is that right?"

Confirm scene preference — assess the concept first, then decide whether to ask:

  • Everyday scenes can precisely map the core process → Don't interrupt; use everyday scenes directly.
  • The concept is abstract and far from daily experience → Ask briefly: "This concept is fairly abstract — what kind of work do you do or what did you study? I'll pick a scene you're familiar with, which makes it easier to grasp."
  • The concept is familiar, but the user's profession could provide a sharper metaphor → Same as above, ask briefly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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 · 228 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A c001db1c746a

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concept-fable is a skill published in the GitHub repository hawkongz/concept-fable (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,711 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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