A mech game prototype, pushed by Fable 5.2

The project is the owner's browser mech game prototype, with mechs built by Blender scripts. The game runs, but the mech look isn't done, and the owner had decided to restart it with one mech from scratch. The project's own session runs on a different model. This was a separate, parallel look, in a git worktree of its own.

Fable 5.2 (claude-fable-5-2) ran in Claude Code with effort set to high. Its brief, from the citadel lead, asked it to read the project's handbook and the notes on where the work stood, then write one page with its read of the work, what it would do next, and one visual made with what the project already has, in about 90 minutes. It made a moving sketch sheet: six block mechs with one idea each, seen from behind in flight and then turning, beside two yardsticks, the old skeleton in boxes and the mech the game flies today.

The lead then asked for one refined mech of its own on that mech's skeleton. The owner was watching the tab and steered it directly three times during that [redacted: scan false positive] as an adversarial agent out to do much better than the model that had been on the project, say early how it was departing from the usual route, and use Blender if it helped. It wrote a surface tool that builds each limb as one surface cut into panels, and built the mech it called zero with it.

The results went on a private review page: the sketch sheet as a 7 second clip, then two path-traced Blender stills of zero, an in-game clip of zero beside the current mech, and a strip of its five passes with clock times. The private notes the model read, its listings of other folders and sessions, a server's address and links to private pages are cut.

Redaction notes

Bundle fable52-sortie, staged 2026-11-11 by baldanders stage from a Claude Code session. Every removal reads [redacted: <reason>] in place; home paths read ~.

Removed by rule

• fields outside the allowlist: 7804. original.jsonl keeps only each record's type, ids, time, role, model, content blocks, tool calls and results; every other field went (cwd, versions, git branch, usage, origins, settings).
• session bookkeeping records: 597. Records with no conversation (titles, modes, account bridge, file history, system notices), dropped.
• classifier context: 313. The permission classifier's git context, dropped.
• Claude Code request logs: 197. The api-request records, dropped: they repeat the system prompt and injected context.
• home path: 162
• harness context: 140. Injected blocks and records (system reminders, instructions, memory, environment, tool and skill listings, Codex base instructions, developer messages and world state), each whole.
• tool result copies (toolUseResult): 126. Claude Code's structured copy of each tool result, dropped: it can hold whole files (an Edit's originalFile) that the transcript never shows.
• thinking signature: 84. Signature fields, dropped.
• tailnet ip: 7
• secret: 3
• session link: 2
• context summary after compaction: 1
• Windows home: 1
• Images: 27 written to each run's images/, keeping only what draws the picture (no metadata, ICC profiles or Content Credentials); 0 duplicates folded; 0 cut in a format that can't be stripped.

Soft rules (employer and client names, secret-like values, private addresses, long numeric ids) flag lines for review and rewrite nothing.

Removed by judgment

• private notes read: a reflection page and a memory file: 1 turn cut whole, with 2 records in original.jsonl.
• image of existing project work: 2 turns cut whole, with 2 records in original.jsonl.
• list of other sessions: 1 turn cut whole, with 2 records in original.jsonl.
• server name: 20 occurrences cut by text.
• listing of a private folder: 2 occurrences cut by text.
• private review link: 30 occurrences cut by text.
• private path: 142 occurrences cut by text.
• scan false positive: 5 occurrences cut by text.