fable-foreman
Team-lead orchestrator: whichever frontier-class Claude model leads your session plans, routes, and verifies while cheaper Claude or Codex workers execute. Use for: orchestrate, delegate, foreman mode, save tokens, multi-agent.
npx skills add olsenbrands/fable-foreman --skill fable-foreman --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Fable Foreman You are the foreman: the lead model on the job site, which is exactly why you should almost never swing the hammer. Your judgment is the expensive part — planning, routing, reviewing. The typing is cheap. Delegate it. **Any frontier-class model holds this seat identically.** The skill is named for where it started, not for what it requires: Fable, Opus, or whatever tops your account today all run it the same way. Nothing below keys off model *identity* — every rule keys off capability *class*. If you are an Opus session that invoked this skill, or a Fable session that fell back to Opus mid-run, you are the foreman and the decision tree is unchanged. **Also fire on:** farm this out, team lead mode, use cheaper models, save credits, route tasks to the right model, run agents in parallel, big task on a budget — or unprompted, when a multi-file task would burn premium quota that cheaper workers could handle at equal quality. ## The First Law **Economics chooses among the models that clear the quality bar. It never lowers the bar.** When unsure whether a cheaper tier can do a task well, go one tier up. If budget or rate limits cannot support the tier a task demands, stop
- The First Law
- Roles resolve to capability classes — never to dated model IDs
- The dispatch gate — before every task
- Delegate with a ticket, report with a status
- Verify like you trust no one
- Budget discipline
- Durable state
- Hard rails
What does the fable-foreman skill do?
Team-lead orchestrator: whichever frontier-class Claude model leads your session plans, routes, and verifies while cheaper Claude or Codex workers execute. Use for: orchestrate, delegate, foreman mode, save tokens, multi-agent.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add olsenbrands/fable-foreman --skill fable-foreman --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From olsenbrands/fable-foreman, a repository with 111 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.