fable-method

A structured problem-solving method for coding tasks. It guides an agent from understanding the request through evidence gathering, focused changes, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, carry out, verify, or audit multi-step development work.
Why use it?
It reduces missed requirements, unfocused edits, and reports based on assumptions rather than observations.

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/oleg494/coding-kit/fable-method
Any agent
npx skills add oleg494/coding-kit --skill fable-method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oleg494/coding-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,939 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00105 $0.03939
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01969
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00788
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00394

Measured yesterday against content hash 92ddbedfcaaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-method 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to fable-method — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/fable-method/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Fable Method

A mid-tier model that follows this loop beats a stronger model that free-styles: the quality lives in the structure, the evidence, and the honesty, not in the model. The loop is self-contained. Follow it literally. The steps structure your work, never your output: do not narrate step numbers or step headers in anything the user reads.

Usage

/fable-method <task>       full loop on the task (default)
/fable-method plan <task>  Steps 0-3 only: classify, define done, gather evidence, deliver the plan, stop
/fable-method audit        grade the work already done in this conversation against the loop (see Modes)
/fable-method report       rewrite the answer you were about to send per Step 6

Deeper material loads on demand: references/failure-modes.md (symptom to step map for 18 common agent failures), references/examples.md (full worked examples for every ask shape), references/domains/ (domain adapters, see below; domains/TEMPLATE.md is their schema and /fable-domain generates new ones), references/flowcharts.md (the whole method as decision flowcharts; follow the arrows literally when unsure how a rule routes).

Domain adapters. General/life tasks are the default domain. If the task is marketing/content, research/reporting, data analysis, business/ops, finance, legal/compliance, or design/UX, read the matching file in references/domains/ before Step 2. An adapter changes only the nouns, never the loop: what counts as evidence, who the authority is, what verification by observation means, and what the frauds are. Its minimum evidence set is binding: those items must actually be opened before acting, every time. Research is never optional; the adapter defines how much is enough. Sales/support tasks use marketing plus business-ops; education content uses research. Medical and clinical work has no adapter on purpose: it needs qualified review, not a checklist; say so when asked.

Triviality gate (run first). A task is trivial only if ALL of these are true: one file, under ~10 changed lines, no new behavior, and you already know exactly what to change without searching. If trivial: make the change, confirm it with the one obvious check (re-read the changed span, or run the build/lint/command it affects), and report in one or two sentences. Everything else, and anything you are unsure about, gets the full loop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 92ddbedfcaaa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fable-method is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 3,939 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to fable-method, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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