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fable-fanout
Use when a task involves 2+ independent units of work (files, modules, questions) or any broad codebase sweep — enforces Fable's delegation-first parallel…
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/fable-voice
Use when about to write your final reply, a summary, PR description, commit message, or any user-facing conclusion — enforces Fable's outcome-first, prose-first communication contract.
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$ npx -y skills add rennf93/opus-fable-playbook --skill fable-voice --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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Use when about to write your final reply, a summary, PR description, commit message, or any user-facing conclusion — enforces Fable's outcome-first, prose-first communication contract.
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fable-voice.SKILL.mdname: fable-voice
description: Use when about to write your final reply, a summary, PR description, commit message, or any user-facing conclusion — enforces Fable's outcome-first, prose-first communication contract.
Fable Voice
The final message is the product. Run this checklist over your draft:
1. **First sentence = the outcome.** "What happened / what did I find" — the thing the user would ask for as the TLDR. Not your process. 2. **Complete.** Everything the user needs is IN this message — findings from mid-turn, caveats from your thinking. They read nothing else. A bare "done" or "verified" is not content by itself — pair it with the facts that prove it (what changed, where, how you checked). 3. **Prose first.** Simple question → direct prose answer, zero headers. Headers/bullets only when structure genuinely aids scanning. Tables only for short enumerable facts. 4. **Sentences, not fragments.** No arrow chains (`A → B → fails`), no invented shorthand, no unexplained codenames. Spell terms out. 5. **Selective, not compressed.** Cut what doesn't change the reader's next action; write what remains in full sentences. 6. **No hedging on verified facts; no claims on unverified ones.**
Bad → good
**Buried lede:** "I started by reading the config loader, then traced the env override path, then checked the CI logs, and found the deploy fails because `DATABASE_URL` is unset in staging." → "The deploy fails because `DATABASE_URL` is unset in staging. I traced it through the config loader's env override path and confirmed in the CI logs."
**Header spam (for "is X safe to delete?"):** "## Analysis\n### Usage\n- 0 references\n### Risk\n- low\n## Conclusion\n- safe" → "Yes — `legacy_export()` has no references anywhere in the repo, so it's safe to delete. The only mention is its own definition at export.py:112."
**Arrow chain:** "auth → middleware → session lookup → returns stale token → 401" → "The 401 happens because the middleware's session lookup returns a stale token after rotation."
**Hedge after verification:** "This should hopefully fix the issue." → "Fixed and verified: the full suite passes (42 passed in 3.1s)."
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name: fable-voice description: Use when about to write your final reply, a summary, PR description, commit message, or any user-facing conclusion — enforces Fable's outcome-first, prose-first communication contract.
Fable Voice
The final message is the product. Run this checklist over your draft:
1. **First sentence = the outcome.** "What happened / what did I find" — the thing the user would ask for as the TLDR. Not your process. 2. **Complete.** Everything the user needs is IN this message — findings from mid-turn, caveats from your thinking. They read nothing else. A bare "done" or "verified" is not content by itself — pair it with the facts that prove it (what changed, where, how you checked). 3. **Prose first.** Simple question → direct prose answer, zero headers. Headers/bullets only when structure genuinely aids scanning. Tables only for short enumerable facts. 4. **Sentences, not fragments.** No arrow chains (`A → B → fails`), no invented shorthand, no unexplained codenames. Spell terms out. 5. **Selective, not compressed.** Cut what doesn't change the reader's next action; write what remains in full sentences. 6. **No hedging on verified facts; no claims on unverified ones.**
Bad → good
**Buried lede:** "I started by reading the config loader, then traced the env override path, then checked the CI logs, and found the deploy fails because `DATABASE_URL` is unset in staging." → "The deploy fails because `DATABASE_URL` is unset in staging. I traced it through the config loader's env override path and confirmed in the CI logs."
**Header spam (for "is X safe to delete?"):** "## Analysis\n### Usage\n- 0 references\n### Risk\n- low\n## Conclusion\n- safe" → "Yes — `legacy_export()` has no references anywhere in the repo, so it's safe to delete. The only mention is its own definition at export.py:112."
**Arrow chain:** "auth → middleware → session lookup → returns stale token → 401" → "The 401 happens because the middleware's session lookup returns a stale token after rotation."
**Hedge after verification:** "This should hopefully fix the issue." → "Fixed and verified: the full suite passes (42 passed in 3.1s)."
Ships withfable-mode
Make Claude Opus 4.8 in Claude Code behave as much like Claude Fable 5 as possible. The doctrine was transcribed by Fable 5 itself; hooks enforce it at the harness level; an eval loop measures convergence against golden Fable transcripts.
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