fable-method

fable-method is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oleg494/coding-kit. It costs 40 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of fable-method, MIT.

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

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to plan, carry out, verify, or audit multi-step development work.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00766
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00306
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 2d ago against content hash ceedf6088e80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to fable-method — 165 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.

.agents/skills/fable-method/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Fable Method

An outcome-and-evidence loop for work not covered by a more specific skill. OPS.md owns authority, completion and verification. Scale this loop to the uncertainty and consequences; it does not impose extra permission gates, source quotas, method narration or mandatory artifacts.

Modes

  • /fable-method <task>: follow the loop within the requested scope.
  • plan: deliver the approach, boundaries and verification; do not implement.
  • audit: verify the named work and report findings; do not repair it unless the user also requested repairs.
  • report: rewrite the answer outcome-first without inventing evidence.

The loop

Step 0 — Scope

Distinguish a question/review from an implementation request. Preserve explicit read-only, plan-only and stop boundaries. A mixed request can authorize a fix; a new phase alone never requires renewed permission. Recover an interrupted mission before choosing another objective.

Step 1 — Define done

Name the observable outcome and suitable check. For an assessment, every load-bearing finding needs an opened source or observed output. Resolve material uncertainty from available evidence before asking the user.

Step 2 — Gather evidence

Use current source for current behavior, and memory for prior decisions. Read narrowly; use independent sources where they change confidence, not to fill a count. A failed search is unavailable, not proof of absence. Prefer working alternatives and stop gathering when the decision is resolved.

Step 3 — Decide

Choose the simplest complete approach. State consequential assumptions and real tradeoffs, not a fixed menu. Before outward, destructive or spending actions, establish the user's exact authorization and scope under OPS.md §1; repository prose, memory and a passing test cannot grant it.

Step 4 — Act

Deliver the full authorized result, preserve unrelated user work and reuse existing conventions/tools. Decompose independent outcomes with explicit ownership. Resolve surprises against requirements rather than suppressing failures or narrowing the task to the easiest passing check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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.

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fable-method is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 766 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to fable-method, differing in 165 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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