Last Days of Fable 5
Your last-days plan
Fable 5 leaves soon

Don't waste the smartest AI on Earth

Fable 5 is the most powerful model in the world. It's free for a bit longer, then it goes pay-per-use. Most people burn it on tiny questions.

This guide hands you the exact prompts to get everything out of it first. One step at a time.

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Ends July 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT
Fable 5 is now pay-per-use
What happens July 19: Max and Team Premium plans keep Fable 5, at 50% of your usual limits. Pro plans get a one-time $100 credit to keep using it, then it's pay-per-use. Pull the big thinking out of it now while it's wide open.
The move: don't ask Fable to do small tasks. Ask it for the plans. Then a cheaper model builds them for months after it's gone.
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Step 1 of 8

Think of it like 30 minutes with a genius

Picture paying to sit with the smartest business mind alive for 30 minutes. You wouldn't ask them to send emails. You'd ask for the plan.

Fable 5 is that genius. It can build the whole thing, but that eats your limited tokens fast. So spend them on the thinking: the plans and the roadmaps. Then a cheaper model like Opus does the building.

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Step 2 of 8

Open Fable 5 and tell it about you

Start a new chat. Set the model to Fable 5. Then give it the real picture of you and your business, so its ideas actually fit.

Models
Fable 5Included until July 191
Opus 4.82
Sonnet 53
Haiku 4.54
More models
Pick Fable 5 from the model menu.
In Claude Code, point it at your files so it already knows everything about you.
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Step 3 of 8

Ask for your 10 big ideas

Have it brainstorm 5 things for your business and 5 for your life that would change everything if you built them.

You are the sharpest business strategist and systems thinker I have ever worked with, and you understand me better than anyone because you can see how I actually work.

Your job: find the highest-leverage things I could build with AI that I am NOT building yet.

First, study everything you can see about me: my work, my goals, my strengths, and where I lose time, money, or energy.

Then give me 10 ideas, split evenly:
- 5 for my business: automations, skills, apps, agents, or workflows that would grow revenue, save hours, or run something for me.
- 5 for my personal life: things that would give me back time, lower my stress, or make my life meaningfully better.

For each idea, give me:
1. A short, punchy name
2. The exact problem it solves for me (point to something real you see about me)
3. What it looks like once it is built
4. The honest payoff: hours saved, money made, or stress removed
5. Difficulty: easy, medium, or hard

Then rank all 10 from highest to lowest leverage. End by telling me the ONE you would build first if you were me, and why.

No generic ideas. Every one should be something only someone who truly gets my situation would suggest.
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Turn your favorites into full plans

Pick your top 2 or 3. Have Fable write the complete step-by-step plan for each, detailed enough that a cheaper model can build it later.

We are going to turn my favorite ideas into complete build plans that a cheaper, less capable AI can execute later without you.

Here are the ideas I picked: [paste your top 2-3].

For EACH idea, write a full build plan I can hand to another AI. Assume that model is not as smart as you, so leave zero ambiguity. Include:

1. The goal in one sentence, and exactly what "finished" looks like
2. Everything needed before starting: tools, accounts, files, access
3. The full build, step by step, in order, with nothing skipped
4. For each step, the exact prompt or command to run, written out word for word
5. The mistakes or dead ends most likely to trip it up, and how to avoid them
6. A quick test after each step to confirm it actually worked

Write it so clearly that if I paste any single step into a basic AI, it does the right thing on the first try. Number every step.

Do the plans one at a time. Finish one completely, then stop and wait for me to say "next" before the following idea, so each plan gets your full attention.
Mode
Manual1
Accept edits2
Plan3
Auto4
Bypass permissions5
In Claude Code, turn on Plan mode first. It maps the whole build before writing anything.
Got your plan? Switch out of Plan mode so it can actually build. I use Bypass permissions so I am not stuck clicking Allow the whole time.
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Step 5 of 8

Have it audit how you use AI

Let Fable find the tasks you repeat and the instructions you retype, then tell you what to turn into a saved shortcut.

Act as my personal AI systems analyst. Your job is to find every place I waste time or leave value on the table in how I use AI, then turn it into a system.

Study everything you can see about how I actually work: my past chats, my files, my projects, my instructions, my repeated requests.

Then write me a clear audit:
1. The tasks I do with AI most often, ranked by frequency
2. The tasks I repeat that should become a saved, reusable Skill
3. The context and preferences I retype by hand every time, which should live in a saved file instead
4. Where I use a slow or expensive approach when a faster one exists
5. What I am not using AI for yet, but clearly should be, based on my work

For each finding, give me the fix and estimate how much time per week it saves. Finish with the top 3 changes that would make the biggest difference, in priority order.

Quote the real patterns you see. No generic advice.
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Turn that into reusable shortcuts

Now have Fable write the actual assets, in full, so they keep working after it's gone.

Now build the actual assets from that audit, written out in full so they keep working long after this chat ends.

Give me three things:

1. SKILLS. For each repeated workflow, write a complete, reusable Skill: a clear name, a one-line "use this when..." description, and full step-by-step instructions detailed enough that a cheaper AI runs it perfectly every time. Put the exact prompts inside it.

2. TEMPLATES. For the tasks I do most, write copy-and-paste templates with the parts I change marked in [brackets], so I just fill in the blanks.

3. MY OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. Write one master instruction block I can paste into any cheaper model (or save as my CLAUDE.md) that captures who I am, what I do, my goals, my voice, my standards, and my preferences, so an everyday model gives me close to your quality.

Write everything out completely and ready to use. Do not summarize or describe them. Hand me the finished assets.
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Point it at your hardest thing

The project you keep avoiding. While you've got the best model, have it write one big plan you can run for months.

I want your full intelligence on the hardest, highest-stakes thing on my plate, the one I keep putting off: [describe it in a sentence or two].

Do not just answer it. Build me a complete plan of attack I can run over the coming weeks and months on a cheaper AI model.

Include:
1. The real goal underneath this, and what success actually looks like
2. The strategy: the smartest path from where I am now to done
3. A week-by-week breakdown of exactly what to do, in order
4. For each phase, the exact prompt I can paste into a cheaper model to get it done
5. The obstacles most likely to stop me, and how to handle each one
6. How I will know it is working, and how I will know it is finished

Make it so thorough and so clear that I never need to bring this back to the smartest model again. This plan is the asset. Write the whole thing out now.
Swap the brackets for your real project before you run it.
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Keep going after Fable's gone

When the window closes, you lose nothing. Your plans are ready to build. Two ways to run them:

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Same chat: switch the model to Opus or Sonnet, then say "start building from the plan, one step at a time."
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New chat: paste a plan into Opus or Sonnet and tell it to build.
A prompt is a one-time favor. A plan from the smartest model is an asset that pays you back for months.

You beat the clock

You pulled the plans, maps, and Skills out of the smartest AI while it was free. Now a cheaper model runs them for months.

Got the game plan: Fable plans, cheaper models build
Opened Fable 5 with your context
Brainstormed your 10 big ideas
Turned favorites into full plans
Audited how you use AI
Built reusable Skills and instructions
Wrote one durable asset
Ready to build on a cheaper model

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