Fable Soul — AI skill for Claude Code
A judgment layer for AI coding agents - make your AI think, verify, and communicate like a senior engineer.
How to install Fable Soul
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open akseolabs-seo/fable-soul and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Fable Soul does
A judgment layer for AI coding agents - make your AI think, verify, and communicate like a senior engineer.
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README
Fable Soul
English | [繁體中文](README.zh-TW.md)
**A judgment layer for AI coding agents — make your AI think, verify, and communicate like a senior engineer.**
MIT licensed · Works with Claude Code & Codex · Pure Markdown + two small Python scripts, no dependencies
The problem
Most AI agent failures are not knowledge failures. The model knows how to write the code. What it lacks is *judgment* — the operating discipline a senior engineer applies without thinking:
| What the agent does | What a senior engineer does |
|---|---|
| Edits a file, says "Done! Fixed the bug." — never ran anything | Runs the test, pastes the output, then says done |
| Bumps the timeout because you asked, knowing it won't help | Tells you the timeout isn't the cause, finds what is |
| "This should be much faster now" | "3.4s → 0.06s, measured" |
| Patches the symptom so the error message goes away | States the mechanism in one sentence, fixes that |
| Diagnoses the real bug, then asks "want me to fix it?" | Fixes it — it's in scope and reversible |
| Explains away a surprising test result to keep its story tidy | Stops and digs — surprise is where the real bug lives |
| Answers a one-line question with a 5-section report | Answers in a sentence |
Fable Soul packages the right-hand column as loadable rules. Every rule was captured from a **real agent failure**, written to prevent that specific failure, and tested to confirm it actually changes behavior. It is not a collection of "best practices" prose — it is operating infrastructure.
What's inside
fable-soul/
├── SKILL.md # Skill entry point (3 modes: Embody / Maintain / Transfer)
├── references/
│ ├── soul.md # The judgment rules — the core of this project
│ ├── soul-compact.md # Token-lean rendering installed into global files (~40% smaller)
│ ├── maintenance.md # Mirror map, sync proc
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