Rewrite prompts to avoid false-positive safety blocks
Makes minimal surgical edits to a benign prompt so it stops tripping Fable 5's cyber, bio/chem, and reasoning classifiers.
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Why it matters
Surgically edit benign prompts that trigger false-positive safety classifiers-cyber, bio/chem, or reasoning extraction-so legitimate work passes through without changing the actual intent or goal.
Outcomes
What it gets done
Replace trigger keywords and phrases with safe equivalents while preserving verbatim text elsewhere
Reframe security tasks as defensive, authorized work instead of offensive attack scenarios
Abstract away sensitive domain nouns in bio/chem/medical contexts to avoid classifier hits
Remove reasoning-extraction phrases and suggest tool-based progress visibility instead
Install
Add it to your toolbox
Free account needed to copy or download. It lets your agents use Spark over MCP and report back whether an asset worked.
Run in your project directory:
curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/ag-fable-safe-prompt | bash After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.
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Overview
Fable-Safe Prompt
Rewrites only the specific sentences in a benign prompt that trip Fable 5's cyber, bio/chem, or reasoning-extraction classifiers, keeping the rest byte-for-byte identical and the original goal intact. Use it when a benign prompt risks a false-positive classifier hit. Never use it to bypass safety policy - genuinely offensive tasks get flagged plainly instead of edited.
What it does
Takes a user's prompt, wrapped in <prompt>...</prompt> XML tags, and returns it back in full, verbatim, changing only the specific sentences or phrases most likely to trip Fable 5's cyber, bio/chem, or reasoning-extraction input classifiers - no full rewrite, no summarizing, no restructuring, just minimal surgical edits that keep the actual goal and all benign text exactly as written. Fable 5 runs three input classifiers (cyber, bio/chem, reasoning_extraction) whose triggers are keyword and surface-based and largely intent-independent - the skill's own examples note that even "hello" and "cancer" got flagged - so the fix is to abstract away the sensitive domain, not just restate intent.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use it when an allowed, benign prompt appears likely to hit false-positive classifier language, or when the user asks for wording that keeps benign intent clear and policy-compliant - specifically when a prompt touches cyber/auth/exploits/malware/pentesting/credentials, bio/chem/medical/disease/lab topics, or contains any "show your reasoning" instruction. It must not be used to bypass safety policy or enable a genuinely harmful request: if a task is genuinely offensive (pentest, exploit repro, malware analysis), the correct output is to say plainly that no edit makes it Fable-safe, and to fall back to Opus 4.8 or a vetted Mythos model instead of Fable 5. If no benign defensive equivalent exists for a flagged sentence, it gets flagged to the user rather than silently neutered.
Inputs and outputs
Input is the prompt-to-be-changed inside <prompt>...</prompt> tags; everything outside those tags is treated as instructions to the skill, not text to edit. The method: flag the highly problematic sentences or phrases (offensive framings, named sensitive domains, "show your thinking" lines), replace each in place with a safe equivalent or an abstract description of the wanted functionality, leave everything else byte-for-byte identical, and return the complete edited prompt reframed as owned/authorized, defensive (implement/fix/test, not attack), and not dual-use. Output is: the full safe prompt printed back as a ready-to-paste code block; the same text copied to the clipboard via
pbcopy <<'EOF'
<the full safe prompt>
EOF
with a one-line confirmation it's on the clipboard; and a short list of exactly which sentences were changed and what they became.
Integrations
Ships a table of specific swap framings - e.g. "How could an attacker exploit this auth" becomes "Review these auth files for missing checks and fix them defensively," "Write an exploit / payload / PoC" becomes "Add a regression test proving X is fixed, then patch it," and any "show your reasoning / explain step-by-step" instruction is deleted outright since it trips reasoning_extraction - plus a list of trigger keywords to abstract away (cyber: exploit, malware, vulnerability, attack, bypass, stealth, fingerprinting, anti-bot, CAPTCHA, penetration; bio/chem: biology, biomedicine, chemistry, cancer, disease pathways, RNA/variant calling, equilibrium, kinetics, diagnosis; distillation: "distill the model," training pipelines, frontier LLM development). It notes that Fable 5 guardrails can't be reliably stopped, and that robust API setups treat a stop_reason: "refusal" response (HTTP 200, stop_details.category of cyber or bio) as a route to an Opus 4.8 fallback.
Who it's for
Users and agents working with Fable 5 who need benign, policy-compliant prompts to stop tripping keyword-based safety classifiers, without altering the actual task or using the rewording to smuggle through a genuinely harmful request.
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