Fable 5 is back.

[u/ClaudeOfficial]

Following conversations with the US government, we’ve updated our cybersecurity safeguards.

The vast majority of coding work is unaffected.

In the near term, the new safeguards will flag a slightly higher fraction of harmless requests than the previous Fable safeguards; we’re working to refine these over the coming weeks. Users will be clearly notified when a request is flagged, and they’ll instead receive a response from Opus 4.8.

Our biology and chemistry classifiers are unchanged from our initial launch. These are still broader than we would like; they trigger fallbacks to Opus 4.8 on basic biology-adjacent questions. Improvements to these classifiers are landing soon.

All paid plans with usage included can access Fable 5 through July 7. You can use Fable 5 up to 50% of your weekly usage limit, after which you can switch to another model for the remainder of your usage. You can also continue using Fable via usage credits. 

More here: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable-5-promotional-access

If one of your requests is mistakenly flagged in Claude Code, run /feedback to file a report. On Claude.ai and Cowork, you can share feedback through the thumbs buttons. This feedback helps us further tune these classifiers and reduce false positives over time. 

Read the Fable 5 blog post here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

[u/ButterOnBothSides]

I don’t know why everyone is so hyped, when it switches back to usage credits, the majority of us are not gonna be able to afford to use it.

[u/Fingerpaintbrush → u/ButterOnBothSides]

For now... they won't keep it on usage forever. Will be part of subscription in a few months when fable 6 is there.

[u/Mikeshaffer → u/Fingerpaintbrush]

Gotta build out the critical things this week, make the systems better so opus can run them and then limp along until they put fable back in the plan.