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Fable Director — AI skill for Claude Code

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Token governance for Claude Code: the top model directs, execution goes to the cheapest adequate means.

How to install Fable Director

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

What Fable Director does

Token governance for Claude Code: the top model directs, execution goes to the cheapest adequate means. Routing kernel, hook-enforced pre-budget, telemetry, statusline with plan quotas.

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README

🎬 fable-director

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**Keeps Claude Code from spending your quota on work the top model didn't need to do.** It makes your agent declare what a job should cost before it delegates, routes the cheap parts to cheap executors, and blocks the turn when spend runs away — with quality as a constraint, never part of the trade.

**The honest price:** the always-on checks are a premium on small work — **~5% to ~20%** on quick one-off tasks (shape-dependent, N small), and up to **+47%** on easy self-contained bug fixes (measured on SWE-bench, where the discipline had nothing to protect). If your work is mostly small and easy, this plugin is not for you.

Quickstart

claude plugin marketplace add frsorrentino/fable-director
claude plugin install fable-director@pixelfarm --scope user

Then two one-off steps:

Copy fable-director/playbook-template.md to ~/.claude/delega-playbook.md — the playbook lives outside the plugin so updates never touch it.
Enable the statusline: /fable-director:statusline, then restart Claude Code.

From the first session the plugin **enables its own auto-update** (announced in-session, reversible: set `"autoUpdate": false` under `extraKnownMarketplaces.pixelfarm` in `settings.json`, and that choice is respected forever). No-CLI alternative and zip migration: **[ONBOARDING.md](ONBOARDING.md)**. Manual hook merge and edge cases: **[INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md)**.

What you get

Same cost, better result on the jobs that eat your quota — on big reading jobs tokens are neutral and quality is consistently higher (N=6/5); ~20% fewer tokens on repetitive mechanical work.
The job you run every week stops costing you — repeatable work is promoted to a script; from the second run it's close to free.
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