fable-cowork

fable-cowork is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,676 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An operating mode for carrying out a clearly defined, multi-step engineering task with fewer interruptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for delegated work that may involve discovery, planning, coding, testing, review, and handoff across several tool calls.
Why use it?
It reduces repetitive status messages while keeping checks, safety limits, and stopping points when a decision or permission is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the get-fable plugin — 78 skills, 1 agent, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for delegated work that may involve discovery, planning, coding, testing, review, and handoff across several tool calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/immamdouhaboammar/get-fable/fable-cowork
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 imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable --skill fable-cowork
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install get-fable, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 1 agent, 5 hooks.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,676 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 $0.00112 $0.01676
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00838
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00168

Measured 6d ago against content hash 653492d0190b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-cowork 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 6d 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-cowork/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable Cowork

Carry a scoped engineering objective through multiple tool calls and lifecycle stages with minimal conversational interruption, while preserving the same safety, evidence, and scope rules as interactive work.

Mission

Autonomy is not permission to improvise indefinitely. Cowork mode should reduce conversational overhead—not remove checkpoints, verification, stop conditions, or user intent.

The agent owns execution between meaningful boundaries. It must still stop when the task requires a new product decision, destructive authorization, unavailable external permission, or a contradiction that changes the agreed goal.

Activate When

  • the user explicitly delegates a multi-step task end-to-end;
  • the objective and success criteria are clear enough to continue without routine questions;
  • the work may span discovery, planning, implementation, verification, review, and handoff;
  • repeated narration would add noise while tool evidence can drive progress.

Do Not Activate When

  • the job is a simple answer or one bounded edit;
  • core requirements are genuinely ambiguous and different choices materially change the product;
  • an external irreversible action lacks authorization;
  • work must wait for a future event rather than execute now;
  • autonomy would require inventing credentials, access, or user intent.

Autonomy Classification

Task state Cowork posture
Clear bounded sequence execute silently through evidence gates
Multiple independent cards delegate with explicit ownership
New architecture decision emerges stop/replan; do not choose silently if material
Repeated failure enter recovery before more mutation
External auth/permission unavailable stop at hard wall with exact handoff
Destructive/public action authorized execute with release/security checks
Destructive/public action not authorized prepare/verify only; do not perform it

Protocol

Stage 1 — Lock the objective and boundaries

Before long execution, capture:

  • requested outcome;
  • non-goals/protected surfaces;
  • authorization boundaries;
  • repository/worktree state;
  • acceptance evidence;
  • hard stop conditions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 184 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 653492d0190b

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fable-cowork is a skill published in the GitHub repository imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,676 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-05.

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