{"repo":"benjaminard/fable-skills","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/benjaminard/fable-skills","clone":"git clone https://github.com/benjaminard/fable-skills.git","description":"A skill library that teaches Claude Opus the working disciplines of Claude Fable 5. Move the checkpoints, not the capacity.","language":null,"stars":29,"topics":["agent-skills","anthropic","claude","claude-code","llm-agents","prompt-engineering"],"license":"MIT","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"fable-skills A skill library that teaches Claude Opus the working disciplines of Claude Fable 5. Drop these skills into any Claude Code setup running Opus (or Sonnet, or any earlier Claude model) and the model picks up the habits that make Fable feel different: it verifies before it claims, it finds the root cause before it fixes, it leads with the outcome when it writes, and it finishes the turn instead of ending on a promise. Unofficial. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. It is a community distillation of publicly documented model behavior. The thesis A skill file cannot give a model more capacity. Fable's raw advantages, like first-shot correctness on complex problems and instruction retention across multi-day runs, do not transfer through markdown. But a surprisingly large share of the observable difference between Fable and Opus is process, not capacity: what the model checks before it speaks, when it stops working, how it decides something is done, and what it cuts from a draft. Those are encodable. Anthropic's own Prompting Claude Fable 5 guide documents these behaviors as short instruction blocks, and notes that skills written for older models are often too prescriptive for Fable. The inverse is the whole idea of this library: older models benefit from exactly the prescriptive scaffolding Fable no longer needs. One line summarizes every skill here: you cannot give a model more capacity with a markdown file, but you can move its checkpoints. ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/benjaminard","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/benjaminard/fable-skills/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}