anthropics / anthropics/claude-code
Fable 5 safeguard false-positives derail long agent sessions
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- Python
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Description
During a legitimate dev session (applying a database migration to my own product's prod DB), Fable 5's safeguards flagged routine messages twice (02:59Z and 03:08Z on 2026-07-27). The first flag silently switched my session to Opus 4.8 (despite switchModelsOnFlag: false); the second erred every retry, and because the flagged content remained in context the session could not recover — I lost roughly an hour and two work items.
Separately: in the mobile app's live voice mode, tool calls play a loud repeating progress chime with no mute setting, which makes long-running tool loops unusable by ear.
Requests:
1. Safeguard flags should not fire on credential-indirection dev-ops text, or should degrade more gracefully than silent model switching.
2. A visible "this turn was flagged — rephrase it" recovery hint.
3. A sounds toggle for live-mode tool calls.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Separate the safeguard behavior, flagged-turn recovery, and mobile live-mode audio requests, then locate the relevant subsystems before checking how each behavior is currently handled. Done means the reported false-positive flow recovers without unwanted model switching or repeated failure, and live tool-call sounds can be muted.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli, mobile-dev, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100