fable-review

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SKILL.md

Fable review

Fable is the judgement lane, for the calls that are genuinely hard: which of two architectures survives contact, whether a plan's premise holds, whether an interface reads the way its author thinks it does. Use it sparingly and on questions where a second opinion changes what you do next.

What comes back is a set of leads. Verify each one before acting on it.

Choosing the lane

Three review skills send a brief to an outside model, chosen by the kind of question rather than its importance:

The question Lane
A bounded check against criteria the brief states: a contract, a spec, copy against a style guide glm-review - cheap
An answer the repository can settle: what changed when, whether a diff does what it claims, where it breaks astra-review - frontier, runs read-only commands
A judgement call with no checkable answer: architecture, taste, a plan, with the evidence in the brief fable-review - frontier, reads files only

A routine correctness pass over a diff is the host's own code review, not a lane.

The route

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