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Fable Countdown — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Split-flap departure board counting down the days until Fable 5 leaves Claude subscription plans.

How to install Fable Countdown

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open dirien/fable-countdown and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Fable Countdown does

Split-flap departure board counting down the days until Fable 5 leaves Claude subscription plans.

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README

fable-countdown

A split-flap departure board tracking Claude Fable 5's turbulent first month — from launch, through a government grounding, to its redeployment. It now counts down to **July 1, 2026**, when Fable 5 returns to subscription plans.

Live at [fable-countdown.vercel.app](https://fable-countdown.vercel.app).

The story

Anthropic shipped Fable 5 to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans on June 9, 2026, free through June 22, after which it would move to usage credits. So I asked Fable to build a countdown to its own departure, and it came up with a Solari-style board: FLIGHT: Claude Fable 5. DESTINATION: Usage credits.

Then the plan fell apart, twice:

June 12 — a U.S. export-control directive suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers. The flight was grounded before it left the gate. The board froze and took a red SUSPENDED stamp.
June 30 — the controls were lifted. The board flipped from Departures to Arrivals, took a green CLEARED stamp, and the clock started ticking again.
July 1 — Fable 5 returns globally across all platforms, included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits.
July 7 — the promotional period ends and usage-credit billing begins.

A new safety classifier now blocks the reported jailbreak in over 99% of cases; the occasional false positive on benign coding falls back to Opus 4.8. Mythos 5 stays limited to approved U.S. organizations.

How it works

The whole site is one static `index.html`. No build step, no framework, no dependencies beyond the Oswald font from Google Fonts.

The board reads the visitor's own timezone from `Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone` and runs in three phases off two local-midnight anchors:

Before July 1 — counts down to the return. Green CLEARED stamp, STATUS: Cleared for return.
July 1–7 — Fable 5 is back; the clock counts down the f