fable-review

fable-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lykhoyda/ask-llm. It costs 53 tokens per session (617 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review workflow that requests an independent review of current changes from the Fable model and checks the reported findings against the source.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review staged, unstaged, and selected untracked files for concrete correctness, security, or regression concerns.
Why use it?
It adds a separate perspective while limiting the result to evidence-based issues and disclosing when the model used cannot be inspected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ask-llm plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps review staged, unstaged, and selected untracked files for concrete correctness, security, or regression concerns.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Lykhoyda/ask-llm
Claude Code
/plugin install ask-llm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ask-llm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 617 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 $0.00053 $0.00617
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5e2fcdc5347e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-review 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.

packages/claude-plugin/skills/fable-review/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Portable contract

Gather a bounded diff and context brief, run the independent Fable reviewer in a read-only isolated context, source-verify its findings, and disclose that the resolved runtime model cannot be independently inspected.

Host adapters

Pi adapter

Unsupported and intentionally not loaded or advertised by the Pi manifest. Do not start a nested Pi/Fable session. Independent Fable review remains a Claude Code capability.

Claude Code adapter

The existing detailed workflow below is the Claude Code adapter. Its Agent, MCP, hook, CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT, and AskUserQuestion mechanics apply only on Claude Code; they do not override the Pi adapter above.

Fable Code Review

Request a read-only, precision-first review in an isolated Fable context.

Workflow

  1. Use Bash to read CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL. If it is set to anything other than inherit, fable, or a claude-fable-* model ID, abort before launching: this environment variable has higher precedence than the skill's model request.
  2. Run git status --short, git diff, and git diff --cached.
  3. Include untracked files the user wants reviewed with git add -N <path> so their contents appear in the diff without staging them.
  4. If the combined diff is empty, report that there are no changes to review.
  5. Read the root and file-scoped CLAUDE.md files plus any ADRs cited by changed code.
  6. Launch the fable-reviewer agent with the per-invocation model set to fable, plus the diff and a compact context brief containing the changed files, applicable conventions, referenced ADRs, and the user's requested review focus.
  7. If the Agent tool reports a fallback or model-availability error, abort instead of returning its findings as a Fable review.
  8. Return the agent's validated findings without adding unverified issues. State that Fable was requested but the resolved model was not independently verified, because Claude Code does not expose the resolved subagent model to skills and an organization availableModels policy can silently fall back to the inherited model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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 · 43 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5e2fcdc5347e

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fable-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lykhoyda/ask-llm (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 617 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.

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