The Standings → Fable 5 (xhigh)
Anthropic
xhigh reasoning effort · via Claude CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol · the setting shown on the standings; also run at high0.80 medium0.75✳
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,194 words on average · est. generation cost $8.83
Six dimensions, each marked 1–5, averaged over ten items and all judges.
Mean craft mark by dimension · 30 verdicts, run ‘first’
Integration is the strongest dimension (4.47); momentum the weakest (4.03). Hover or focus a bar for the per-judge means.
Each item receives one verdict from each judge; the spread of the dots is the disagreement.
Headline score per item, by judge · run ‘first’
| Item | Headline | Fable 5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Sol | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.86 | 0.83 | 0.96 | 0.79 | 2,175 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.85 | 0.75 | 0.96 | 0.83 | 2,078 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.85 | 0.79 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 2,330 |
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.85 | 0.75 | 1.00 | 0.79† | 2,386 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.79 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.71 | 2,419 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.79 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.79 | 1,639 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.77 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.67 | 2,141 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.79 | 0.71 | 2,207 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.71 | 2,480 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.71 | 2,083 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.00 against Fable 5 0.75 on The Secret Garden (item 013).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Ten of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
Lady Verinder's prohibition arrives too conveniently — she guesses unprompted that Franklin may have \"come charged with a message, or a gift, or an errand... from my brother Herncastle\" the moment he walks in, a seam that exists to satisfy the beat rather than arising from anything shown on the page.
The lady in black's encounter is over-engineered — the narrator announces its significance (\"never before been heard to address a word to any living soul\") and her oracular line \"It gives, and it takes back\" is more portentous symbolism than Chopin would allow, exposing the brief's machinery.
Its best material is borrowed rather than invented: the interview scene leans on the published novel's stock Emsworth devices (lateness at the florist's, the McAllister hollyhock monologue, the pince-nez business), so the one beat the brief left open to invention is the chapter's least original.
The chapter occasionally explains its own subtext instead of leaving it implicit — Brett's too-neat epigram \"You pay it out before it's owed\" and the narrator's \"It was fine talk and neither of us meant a word of it\" announce meanings Hemingway would have trusted the reader to feel.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.