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olsenbrands/fable-foreman — explained in plain English

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tl;dr

A Claude Code skill that has your strongest AI model plan and review work while cheaper AI workers do the implementation, with a blind reviewer checking every result before it counts as done.

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    What it does
      Plans with a strong lead model
      Delegates to cheaper workers
      Blind verifies every change
    Tech stack
      Claude Code skill
      Claude subagents
      OpenAI Codex CLI
    Use cases
      Cost efficient AI coding
      Independent verification
      Multi agent task routing
    Audience
      Developers
      AI coding assistant users

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Cut AI coding costs by routing routine implementation tasks to cheaper models while a stronger model plans and reviews.

VIBE 2

Get an independent, blind verification pass on AI-generated code changes before accepting them as complete.

VIBE 3

Coordinate a multi-file or multi-stage coding task across several AI agent workers automatically.

VIBE 4

Add a disciplined plan, execute, and self-review process even in tools without subagent support.

what's the stack?

Claude CodeClaudeOpenAI Codex CLI

how it stacks up fr

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Stars727272
LanguageRPython
Last pushed2014-12-05
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultymoderatemoderatemoderate
Complexity3/53/53/5
Audiencedeveloperops devopsgeneral

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · moderate time til it works · 30min

Full orchestration needs Claude Code with subagent support, the optional Codex CLI worker requires a separate OpenAI login and its own credits.

in plain english

Fable Foreman is a skill for AI coding assistants like Claude Code that turns your strongest, most expensive AI model into a team lead instead of having it do all the work itself. Once installed, it plans out a task, then hands the actual implementation work to cheaper AI workers, either Claude subagents or an OpenAI Codex CLI worker if one is installed and you agree to use it, while the stronger lead model reviews the plan and checks the results. The project's reasoning is that a top tier model doing routine implementation work is wasteful, since a cheaper model can usually do that job just as well for far less cost. It routes tasks by capability class, meaning it thinks in terms of frontier, workhorse, and fast tiers of ability rather than specific model names, so the skill keeps working correctly even as new models are released and does not need to be updated for each one. Before trusting any change as finished, the skill requires a verification step done by a separate AI instance that gets only the original task description and none of the worker's own explanation of what it did, so that a worker cannot simply convince a lazy reviewer its own flawed work is correct. Skipping this blind check is only allowed for the smallest, single file edits. When a worker fails at a task twice, the skill escalates it to a more capable tier rather than repeating the same failing attempt a third time. Installation on Claude Code involves copying a skill folder plus three companion agent definition files into Claude's configuration directories, and the project notes that both are required for full delegation and verification to work. It can also run in a more limited, single-model self review mode on Claude Desktop or claude.ai, where true delegation to separate agents is not available.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Install the fable-foreman skill and agents into my Claude Code setup so it can delegate implementation work.
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Explain how fable-foreman decides whether to route a task to a Claude subagent or an OpenAI Codex worker.
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Walk me through what happens when a worker agent fails a task twice under fable-foreman's escalation rules.
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Show me how fable-foreman's blind verifier avoids trusting a worker's own explanation of its changes.

Frequently asked questions

what is fable-foreman fr?

A Claude Code skill that has your strongest AI model plan and review work while cheaper AI workers do the implementation, with a blind reviewer checking every result before it counts as done.

How hard is fable-foreman to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is fable-foreman for?

Mainly developer.

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