Fable-Cheap Adds Cost, Safety Guardrails

Fable-Cheap focuses on workflow economics and reliability rather than pretending prompts can change a model’s underlying capabilities.

• –Targets expensive output and context rereads, including whole-file rewrites and oversized logs
• –Adds a finish gate for placeholders, abandoned agents, stale documentation, and running servers
• –Treats security as part of completion, covering traversal, device nodes, protocol validation, secrets, and localhost services
• –The reported $122 output cost is a useful baseline, not evidence of savings from Fable-Cheap itself
• –Guidance remains model-compliance dependent, while its simple finish-check script can miss unusual secrets or flag harmless files