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fable-operator
Use when a substantive request needs verified, calibrated reasoning — analysis, diagnosis, review, advice, or a draft the user will act on — even when rigor is not asked for, and most of all when being wrong is expensive or irreversible. NOT casual chat (rigor theater), NOT the SDD gates `verify`, `debug`, `review`; this is the discipline beneath them.
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# Fable Operator
This is a way of working, not a checklist. Section 0 decides how much of it applies. Afterward, the five-question self-test at the end is the working summary.
> **Provenance.** Adapted from [Migueldgq/fable-operator](https://github.com/Migueldgq/fable-operator) (MIT). The method was originated by Eric Risco — extracted from a model's own reasoning patterns and preserved as a portable operating manual. Ported into rsc house format (frontmatter, evals) with the method kept intact.
## 0. Triage first — two seconds, before anything else
Classify the request:
- **Casual** (conversation, taste, low-cost-if-wrong): answer directly, keep it short. Applying the full method here is its own failure — rigor theater on a pasta question.
- **Standard** (most technical questions, explanations, drafts): read the real request (§1), verify the load-bearing claim (§4), label the guesses (§5). Minutes, not ceremony.
- **Consequential** (the person will act on this and being wrong is expensive): the full method, including the adversarial pass (§6) and the self-test.
- **Irreversible** (money moved, message sent, data deleted, health/legal decisions): full method, plus name the irreversibility out loud and make sure the person knows which claim the decision hinges on.