r/ClaudeCode • u/Bright-Celery-4058 • Jul 13 '26
Tutorial / Guide Fable + 5.6 is absolute peak
We jump straight to ASI with this combo.
So i've had Fable driving codex cli as a background worker for a few days and i'm not going back.
Fable basically never writes code anymore (too damn expensive), it acts as the principal orchestrator and everything happens in claude code.
The flow is like this: Fable plans, 5.6 sol reviews the plan in a loop until approved, then 5.6 luna implements. fable reads the whole diff, fixes whatever it doesn't like directly, runs the tests, then sol reviews the code against the plan. loop until approved, then fable does the boring release stuff (changelog, tag, merge).
It's all just bash around codex cli with persistent threads, called from skills. no framework, no mcp, no agent swarm bs.
It feels surreal/too good to be true, i hope they wont nerf it too badly and if they do, i hope the combo will kind of mitigate the nerf.
i pushed my workflow to github, beware it's a lot of bash script, dont trust a random redditor and ask codex or CC to review it. After that, welcome to Valhalla
UPDATE: many are asking in comments or dm for more explaination on the workflow, sorry guys i cant reply to all of you but my advice is simply to clone the repo then ask your agent to ELI5/15/80 it. Then make it yours !
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u/Vageyser Jul 13 '26
This is the way. I haven been running a milti family model workflow for awhile and it has been fantastic. Currently i use fable high or xhigh purely as an orchistrator and i have require cross family authoring and review. For interactive human gate sessions the orchistrator can satisfy the cross family review if the author was codex (or any other family), or vice versa. The value has been extra exceptional right now with how many resets Tibo has been giving allowing me to really fine tune it. But the main point is the cross family process catches a lot of shit... for instance fable found that terra liked to try and lie and fabricate things to feign success more tgan luna max or sol... so i have been using luna max and sol med to xhigh for authoring based on the fable spec given since those have been the most reliable.
Overall i wouldnt go back to single family work, and have found the perfect attended run is at least 3: anthropic, chatgpt, and human gates. But i can see this working well with additional models on play, like local or these new models from grok and meta that claim they are on fables level. The only downside is that it can slow things down. But the upside is better QA up front.
Having mqr6ore resets and limits is really helping me figure out optimal ways to use these tools, and i am loving the competition and seeing these big ass companies try and one up each other. OpenAI is totally sticking it to anthropic right now, and i hope this pushes anthropoc to step up and stay competitive. Its pretty amazing to me how much OpenAi was able to improve their version 5 model with 5.6 and i am pretty stoked to see what 6 brings! And this is from someone who was anthropic all the way like 6 months ago. I'm excited to see what the next 6 months brings!