fable-run

fable-run is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,666 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for starting and checking real applications, including servers, command-line programs, terminal interfaces, desktop apps, and background services. It manages their working environment, readiness checks, time limits, output, and cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for live smoke tests, server checks, interactive command-line tests, browser tests that need a running process, and verification of built or published executables.
Why use it?
It distinguishes an application that merely started from one that actually handled the intended operation. This provides runtime evidence for paths that source-level or unit tests do not exercise.

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 Use it for live smoke tests, server checks, interactive command-line tests, browser tests that need a running process, and verification of built or published executables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/immamdouhaboammar/get-fable/fable-run
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-run
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,666 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00120 $0.01666
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00833
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00167

Measured 5d ago against content hash cd84b3390c3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-run scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `sleep 5 && curl /healthz` as universal runtime proof;
skills/fable-run/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable Run

Execute the real artifact in a bounded environment and collect runtime evidence without confusing "process started" with "application works."

Mission

Runtime work needs lifecycle ownership: exact command/artifact, working directory, environment, ports, readiness criteria, output bounds, timeout, and cleanup.

A server PID, HTTP 200 from the wrong process, or CLI exit 0 that never exercised the feature is not sufficient proof.

Activate When

  • a server/service must run to verify behavior;
  • a built/published CLI or executable needs a smoke test;
  • browser/runtime integration requires a live process;
  • a runtime path differs materially from unit-test/source execution;
  • verification needs empirical entrypoint/lifecycle evidence.

Do Not Activate When

  • unit/integration tests can prove behavior without a persistent live process (fable-verify);
  • code still needs implementation (fable-execute);
  • repeated runtime failure/staleness needs diagnosis (fable-recover);
  • launching the process would cause an unauthorized/destructive external side effect.

Runtime Classification

Target Important controls
one-shot CLI cwd/env/args, exit, stdout/stderr, side effects
HTTP server port ownership, readiness, health vs feature probe, cleanup
worker/daemon startup readiness, queue/input fixture, termination
browser app server URL, browser readiness, console/network errors
packaged binary exact artifact/version/path, clean environment
multi-service dependency startup order, ports, teardown, correlation

Protocol

Stage 1 — Identify the exact artifact

Record:

  • command/binary path;
  • version/hash/build if relevant;
  • cwd;
  • required environment/config;
  • expected process type;
  • safe input/probe;
  • destructive/external side effects to avoid.

Do not assume foo on PATH is the artifact just built—resolve it when identity matters.

Stage 2 — Establish resource ownership

Before launch determine:

  • requested/available port;
  • whether an existing process owns it;
  • temp directories/files;
  • child-process behavior;
  • timeout/budget;
  • cleanup method.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 5d ago First seen · 199 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A cd84b3390c3f

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fable-run is a skill published in the GitHub repository imMamdouhaboammar/get-fable (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,666 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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