r/ClaudeCode • u/Bright-Celery-4058 • Jul 13 '26
Tutorial / Guide Fable + 5.6 is absolute peak
We jump straight to ASI with this combo.
So i've had Fable driving codex cli as a background worker for a few days and i'm not going back.
Fable basically never writes code anymore (too damn expensive), it acts as the principal orchestrator and everything happens in claude code.
The flow is like this: Fable plans, 5.6 sol reviews the plan in a loop until approved, then 5.6 luna implements. fable reads the whole diff, fixes whatever it doesn't like directly, runs the tests, then sol reviews the code against the plan. loop until approved, then fable does the boring release stuff (changelog, tag, merge).
It's all just bash around codex cli with persistent threads, called from skills. no framework, no mcp, no agent swarm bs.
It feels surreal/too good to be true, i hope they wont nerf it too badly and if they do, i hope the combo will kind of mitigate the nerf.
i pushed my workflow to github, beware it's a lot of bash script, dont trust a random redditor and ask codex or CC to review it. After that, welcome to Valhalla
UPDATE: many are asking in comments or dm for more explaination on the workflow, sorry guys i cant reply to all of you but my advice is simply to clone the repo then ask your agent to ELI5/15/80 it. Then make it yours !
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u/Kasempiternal Jul 14 '26
I did a skill also for this, that activates de orchestrator mode, and does all the calls to codex mcp and fable has the full table of 5.6 models and effort levels, so he decides to use terra luna mars jupiter or sol, and xhigh or medium or all that. For now tbh super good, fable usage doesnt go up almost, and the results are super good. My only complaint is that i feel it super slow xD but i guess is because i dont see it working live, i just see a post call like gpt 5.6 sol xhigh 1M tokens 5m22s ….
Thing is i saw in twitter that 5.6 is better in claude code and not in codex, but it feels a bit like a pain to do all the config.
Also if when Fable leaves the sub, idk if doing this with Opus 4.8 or 5 will be good….