Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to synaptent/aragora. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synaptent/aragora/main/.agents/skills/consult-fable/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptent/aragoraWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptent/aragora/consult-fable)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptent/aragora/consult-fable"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptent/aragora/consult-fable/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00126 | $0.01543 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00617 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00309 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00154 |
Grade A, and why
consult-fable 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Consult Fable (bounded Claude Fable 5 advisory)
Ask Claude Fable 5 a question and get an answer back through bounded backend
attempts. This replaces ad-hoc timeout 120 claude -p "..." calls, which hang
or expire with no output. The default backend order is claude-fable-5 then
claude-opus-5 through the local claude CLI. CLI attempts pass the prompt
via stdin and use an empty MCP configuration. Explicit
ARAGORA_MODEL_TRANSPORT=vibeproxy-prefer tries those exact models through
VibeProxy before the CLI; vibeproxy-required fails closed instead of using
CLI or paid API fallbacks.
--timeout is the maximum for one backend attempt. By default, the total
consult budget is derived from every enabled attempt, so a full-timeout
VibeProxy attempt cannot consume the CLI fallback budget. Pass
--overall-timeout to set an explicit cap shared across all attempts.
Prompts from inline args, --prompt-file, and stdin are capped at 512 KiB and
are rejected before any backend attempt, so oversized context cannot
silently burn API tokens when --api-fallback is enabled. The cap also applies
to programmatic consult() calls after any --system/system preamble is
combined with the user prompt.
API fallback is off by default because it can consume Anthropic API credits or
billing when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or aragora secrets are configured. Use
--api-fallback only when paid API fallback is acceptable; unsupported
CLI-only model ids such as claude-fable-5 are skipped for direct API calls.
If no API key is available, the API backend records a normal failed attempt in
the JSON envelope instead of being omitted.
How to invoke
From the repo root (any worktree):
# Inline question, defaults: model claude-fable-5, timeout 600s per attempt
# Default total budget is timeout multiplied by enabled backend attempts.
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py "One-paragraph question with the live state inlined."
# Long prompt from a file, machine-readable result
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py --prompt-file /tmp/question.md --json
# Require the local proxy and prohibit transport fallback
ARAGORA_MODEL_TRANSPORT=vibeproxy-required \
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py --json "Reply with exactly READY"
# Prefer the local proxy, then fall back to the default CLI path
ARAGORA_MODEL_TRANSPORT=vibeproxy-prefer \
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py --json "Reply with exactly READY"
# Bigger total budget for a hard question
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py --timeout 300 --overall-timeout 1200 --prompt-file /tmp/question.md
# Explicit paid API fallback after CLI attempts fail
python3 scripts/consult_claude.py --api-fallback --prompt-file /tmp/question.md
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 0ef5e4cfdec0
consult-fable is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptent/aragora (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,543 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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