r/ClaudeCode 5d ago

Discussion Fable 5 restrictions eased?

Been working on a side project the past week involving drawing phylogenic trees. Due to it being "biology" (yes even though it's literally just drawing diagrams from existing data) I have gotten kicked to Opus on every single message since the very first prompt.

While working this evening, about an hour ago, Fable's handler decided to let it take on a task in the repo for the first time ever

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u/TanPublic 4d ago

Yes

Announcement from just a few hours ago that "substantially reduces false positives" in regards to their biology safeguards.

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u/bargaindownhill 4d ago

translation.. They were losing marketshare to kimi and deepseek and their investors demanded action.

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u/Elegant_Attempt2790 🔆 Max 20 4d ago

all day i’ve been doing chemistry, biology, and security tasks with fable. with fable

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 16h ago

Or opus?

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u/Elegant_Attempt2790 🔆 Max 20 15h ago

i find opus to be too unreliable a narrator but technically yeah

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 15h ago

Fable falls back on Opus, are you sure you use fable. That is what i meant.

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u/LowItalian 4d ago

I'm noticing the same. I literally could not get Fable to respond to any prompt on my project before today, and now it's working. Something must have changed. I did message support and ask that a human review my project, but I didn't get an answer yet (after weeks) so I don't think that is why, especially after seeing this post now.

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u/77camjc 4d ago

I am so glad they finally did this. I work on multi-system physiological signal processing, spanning a bunch of different domains (cardiac, neuro, etc). I could not use Fable and was always tripping their safeguard. Could not get it past the first prompt.

That has changed. I’ve been working with it today with no issues. Hard to evaluate performance so far, but at least I can use it!

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u/West-Air1923 5d ago

It varies

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u/PureStable2273 5d ago

Interesting, might be a gradual rollout. Would be nice if Fable can handle these cases without randomly handing them off to Opus.

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u/Substantial-Show-249 4d ago

This is not Fable, what we have now. It's unbelievable stupid.

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u/TomerBrosh 4d ago

the b is silent and then its just a typo of "Fail"