A design kit, reviewed by Fable 5.1

The kit is a reusable visual language for the owner's sites and tools: a run dashboard, a personal site, a tool page and public project trackers. It covers its parts, marks, type, colour, motion and rules for using them, and it is still a work in progress.

This is one of two runs made to compare Fable 5.2 with Fable 5.1 on identical input. Each ran headless in a fresh folder holding only the list of decisions the owner had settled and 21 stills of the live pages and the kit, with no other context. Each got the same brief, word for word: "Write a walkthrough review of this design kit for a reader who hasn't seen it. Go page by page: for each still, write a short paragraph on what works and what doesn't, with specifics. Then give your verdict on each settled decision (keep, revisit, or cut) with the argument for it. Finish with what's missing. Write it as an essay, in plain prose." One neutral line after it named the files and their order. The reviews are opinions for the owner to weigh.

Redaction notes

Bundle kit-essay-fable-5-1, staged 2026-11-10 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: 968. 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).
• classifier context: 28. The permission classifier's git context, dropped.
• harness context: 26. Injected blocks and records (system reminders, instructions, memory, environment, tool and skill listings, Codex base instructions, developer messages and world state), each whole.
• session bookkeeping records: 22. Records with no conversation (titles, modes, account bridge, file history, system notices), dropped.
• tool result copies (toolUseResult): 22. Claude Code's structured copy of each tool result, dropped: it can hold whole files (an Edit's originalFile) that the transcript never shows.
• home path: 21
• Claude Code request logs: 12. The api-request records, dropped: they repeat the system prompt and injected context.
• thinking signature: 3. Signature fields, dropped.
• Images: 21 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 path: 42 occurrences cut by text.
• pack files: 1 turn cut whole, with 2 records in original.jsonl.