fable-validate

fable-validate is a skill for Claude Code from richkuo/rk-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,460 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A validation workflow that sends a GitHub issue to a read-only Fable 5 subagent for checking. It examines the issue's requirements, code claims, design consistency, and complexity before returning a verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a GitHub issue by number or URL, identify missing or conflicting requirements, and receive a complexity score and recommendation.
Why use it?
It provides a separate review of whether an issue is clear, feasible, and appropriately sized before anyone implements it. The reviewer does not edit the code or issue.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the rk-skills plugin — 37 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate a GitHub issue by number or URL, identify missing or conflicting requirements, and receive a complexity score and recommendation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richkuo/rk-skills/fable-validate
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 richkuo/rk-skills --skill fable-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richkuo/rk-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rk-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,460 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00112 $0.01460
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00730
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00146

Measured 4d ago against content hash e34e5094f2dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

fable-validate scanned grade B 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 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

3. Any other install location — search by name, e.g. `ls ~/.claude/plugins/*/skills/validate-issue/SKILL.md` (plugin-marketplace installs live under a plugin directory, not `~/.claude/skills/`).
skills/fable-validate/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

fable-validate

Delegate issue validation to a Fable 5.1 subagent, then act on its verdict in the main agent. The subagent only validates — it never edits files or the issue; the main agent handles all follow-on actions.

Input

Same as validate-issue:

  • Full URL: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/issues/<N>
  • Short form: #<N> or bare <N> (current repo)
  • owner/repo#N
  • Nothing — default to the latest open issue in the current repo.

Steps

1. Resolve the validation procedure and the issue

Locate the validate-issue SKILL.md the subagent must follow — prefer the project-local copy over the global one, since a repo may customize the procedure:

  1. <repo>/.claude/skills/validate-issue/SKILL.md (if it exists)
  2. ~/.claude/skills/validate-issue/SKILL.md
  3. Any other install location — search by name, e.g. ls ~/.claude/plugins/*/skills/validate-issue/SKILL.md (plugin-marketplace installs live under a plugin directory, not ~/.claude/skills/).

Record the absolute path. If none of these resolves, stop and tell the user.

If the user referenced an issue, note the number/repo but do NOT fetch or pre-validate it yourself — the subagent owns steps 0–8 of the procedure, including fetching. If no issue was referenced, the subagent resolves the latest open issue itself per the procedure.

2. Dispatch the Fable 5.1 validation subagent

Do not validate the issue yourself first — the subagent owns the validation. Load the fable-dispatch skill before dispatching: it owns the dispatch path and the dispatch-hygiene rules in its section 7 (read-only prompt, snapshot/diff, retry once then report). Dispatch per its ladder; on the Agent-tool path, call the Agent tool with:

  • subagent_type: Plan (read-only: no Edit/Write, keeps validation side-effect-free)
  • model: fable (the whole point — the validation must come from Fable 5.1)
  • run_in_background: false — everything downstream depends on the verdict
  • description: Validate issue #<N> (or Validate latest issue)
  • prompt: hand it everything needed to validate independently:
    • The issue reference exactly as the user gave it (or "no issue referenced — resolve the latest open issue per the procedure"), plus the working directory.
    • Instruct it to read the SKILL.md at the recorded path and execute its steps 0 through 8 exactly — baseline resolution, fetch with --comments + PR timeline check, claim extraction, depth-rule verification with file:line citations, 5a/5b/5c proposal checks, complexity score, scope disposition, and the step-8 verdict format. It must read every mandatory reference file those steps name.
    • It must STOP at step 8: no step 9/10/11 actions, no gh issue edit, no comments posted, no file edits — state the read-only rule explicitly in the prompt per fable-dispatch section 7.
    • Return the complete step-8 verdict verbatim as its final message, plus one line stating which baseline (branch/commit) claims were traced against.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 Changed · +4 tokens per session e34e5094f2dc
  2. 8d ago First seen · 71 lines · 108 tokens per session scan B 2cb72a0ffa71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fable-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository richkuo/rk-skills (49 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,460 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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