What problem does it solve?
This skill addresses the common agentic failure where smaller models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) drift from goals, skip verification, or patch symptoms instead of root causes, leading to wasted tokens and rework.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Operational Discipline: Enforces 8 rigorous procedures including goal anchoring, proof-based verification, and root-cause analysis.
- Calibration: Adapts the intensity of the ritual based on task size, from trivial edits to complex refactoring.
- Use Case: When assigning a complex debugging task to a cheaper model, this skill forces the agent to verify its hypothesis with external evidence before claiming completion, preventing the classic patch-cascade failure.
Quick Start
Instruct your agent to read the fable-thinking skill at the start of your session to enforce frontier-level rigor on your current task.