fable-understand

fable-understand is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhein1/fable5-codex. It costs 64 tokens per session (551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-based guide for understanding an existing codebase, including its architecture, startup path, data flow, and connections between parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when tracing a command or feature from its entry point to its effects, mapping a subsystem, or explaining integration, security, data, or API behavior.
Why use it?
It answers how a system works from the code itself instead of relying on memory or outdated documentation. It also records evidence and unknowns.

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/rhein1/fable5-codex/fable-understand
Any agent
npx skills add rhein1/fable5-codex --skill fable-understand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhein1/fable5-codex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00064 $0.00551
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash ee46d2ffd40a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-understand 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 4d 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.

plugins/fable5-codex/skills/fable-understand/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fable Understand

Answer from implementation evidence, not memory or stale docs.

For ECF-style governed runs, use ../../references/ecf-run-contract.md. For large or high-risk understanding tasks, use real Codex subagents when the runtime exposes a subagent tool and the user has not opted out; treat cross-module architecture, boot flow, data flow, integration wiring, security/privacy/money/data/API, or many-file mapping questions as large by default. Otherwise run single-agent multi-lens and say why no subagents were used when workflow trace is requested.

For large or high-risk Fable tasks, recommend running the parent task on gpt-5.6-sol with Ultra (model_reasoning_effort = "ultra") when available. Ultra may delegate proactively, but still explicitly request parallel delegation for disjoint Fable lenses when the runtime supports subagents; otherwise use single-agent multi-lens and report the reason.

Workflow

  1. Restate the question and scope.
  2. Restate authority boundaries and declare the ECF run mode when the user asks for ECF, subagents, or a receipt.
  3. Read repo instructions and the most direct source files.
  4. Trace from entrypoint to effects:
    • route/command/UI entry
    • service/module boundaries
    • data reads/writes
    • external calls
    • errors, retries, and fallbacks
    • tests and docs that confirm or contradict behavior
  5. Inspect callers and importers before answering behavior questions.
  6. Use a small diagram or ordered flow when it improves clarity.
  7. Include unknowns, assumptions, and stale-doc risks.

Evidence Safety

Never print raw secrets, tokens, private keys, wallet keys, credential files, or .env values. Redact secret-like values and cite only the file/path/key name needed to explain the issue.

Output

Prefer this shape:

  • direct answer
  • source-backed flow
  • important edge cases
  • unknowns or verification gaps
  • useful next probe, only if needed

Every non-obvious claim should have a file, line, command, artifact, or runtime citation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 4d ago First seen · 47 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ee46d2ffd40a

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fable-understand is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhein1/fable5-codex (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 551 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 2026-08-31.

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