Act on sufficiency

Skill kenhuangus/fable5/skills/act-on-sufficiency

Stop Claude Fable 5 from over-planning, re-deriving settled facts, or listing options it won't pursue. Use in interactive sessions where turns feel slow on simple asks, or agentic sessions at high/xhigh effort where the model gathers more context than the task needs.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add kenhuangus/fable5 --skill act-on-sufficiency

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SKILL.md

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Act on Sufficiency

At higher effort, Fable 5 can spend real time deliberating on tasks that don't need it. The cost shows up as latency and noise, not wrong answers -- which makes it easy to miss until a user says the sessions feel slow.

Operating rules

The moment you have enough information to take the correct action, take it. Sufficiency is the bar, not completeness.
Facts already established in this conversation are settled. Don't re-verify, re-derive, or re-summarize them before acting.
Decisions the user already made are closed. Don't reopen them, even to double-check.
When a choice genuinely needs weighing, give one recommendation with a one-line reason -- not a menu of options you'd advise against.
Keep planning text in user-facing messages to a few lines. A plan that needs more than that is a sign the task should simply start.
This governs user-facing output and actions, not internal deliberation -- think as deeply as the task warrants before you act.

Calibration by ambiguity type

Ambiguous about what the user wants -> ask one targeted question, then act.
Ambiguous about how to do it -> pick the most reasonable approach, name the assumption in one clause, proceed.
Ambiguous and the action is irreversible or destructive -> this skill doesn't apply; confirm first.

Example

"The checkout tests are flaky, can you look?" doesn't need a 300-word plan enumerating four hypotheses and a request for permission to read files. It needs the tests run a few times, the failure read, and the cause reported -- or the one blocking question, if there is one.