Claude Fable 5.1 prompting guide: 16 official tips and an agent migration checklist
xiaohu · x · 2026-09-02
A detailed walkthrough of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 prompting guide, organizing the 16 official tips into four control planes: effort budget (default high; medium matches the previous gen cheaper; watch retrieval on low and maxtokens on high tiers), tools & execution (batch independent tool calls in parallel, request progress updates, avoid blocking subagent schedulers), message history (strict append-only due to thinking-block prefix binding; use throwaway single-turn system messages for temporary rules), and delivery constraints (let it run non-destructive steps to completion, restrict scope creep and full-file rewrites). Key takeaway: the guide spans parameters, API config, message protocol, agent orchestration, and UI — diagnose the failing layer before tweaking prompts.
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