Fable5 2 Opus5 5 Orchestrator

Fable Orchestrator

Run Claude Fable 5.2 all day — without watching the usage meter.

Fable 5.2 is the best chair a Claude Code session can have, and the most expensive one. This plugin keeps it on planning and decisions and sends the work to named workers: the volume to Sonnet 5.5, the hard slices (architecture, irreversible migrations, security review) straight to Opus 5.5. No tier ever runs above high effort.

The division of labor

- Escalation is one-way. When high is not enough, the work moves up a tier, not up in effort. Sonnet's "uncertain" goes to Opus, never back to the chair.
- A declined task is re-run unchanged on another tier, never reworded. If that tier declines too, the chair stops and tells you.

What the plugin does

1 · The chair profile. Every session starts with a ~3.7k-char core: delegate by default, hand off through ./.workflow/scratch/, name the workers, set model and effort per spawn. The detail is in the orchestrator:playbook skill, loaded before the first delegation. Worker reports are capped at 40 lines; longer material goes to disk.

2 · The solo guard. The chair's own Edit / Write / MultiEdit / NotebookEdit calls are counted. The 3rd one in a session that has spawned no worker is denied once, then the guard stays quiet. One spawned worker disarms it. A fork does not count as a worker.

3 · The naming gate. The first unnamed spawn with a 1500+ char prompt is denied once. Named workers run in tmux panes you can watch; unnamed ones are invisible until they return.

4 · The per-prompt reminder. One line rides every prompt: *You are the CHAIR. Delegate by default.*

Workers (teammates) get none of this — the rules are for the chair. When a session ends, its teammate panes are killed.

Two chairs

Fable is primary. When its limit runs out, move…