The Standings → Fable 5.1 (medium)
Anthropic
medium reasoning effort · via Claude CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol · not the setting shown on the standings; also run at xhigh0.82 high0.77 low0.76✳
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,552 words on average · est. generation cost $2.78
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 (4.23); momentum the weakest (3.93). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.85 | 0.79 | 1.00 | 0.75† | 2,422 |
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.83 | 0.79 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 2,152 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.79 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 1,865 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.75 | 0.68 | 0.92 | 0.67 | 2,594 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.79 | 0.71 | 3,074 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.72 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.67 | 2,557 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.71 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.68 | 2,899 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.63 | 2,635 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.62 | 2,238 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.71 | 0.67 | 3,089 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.00 against GPT-5.6 Sol 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’
Five of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range. The Secret Garden and The Awakening and Persuasion and The Moonstone and Leave It to Psmith ran over by 22 and 65 and 474 and 99 and 289 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The Bistritz letter's \"gentleman who lives in the mountains beyond the Pass\" and the message \"not in his hand\" press as close as the prohibition allows to hinting at the Count, so the chapter's dread depends on the reader's outside knowledge rather than anything it earns on its own page.
A handful of self-consciously literary flourishes — \"like a face at the bottom of a well,\" \"breathed at her in the dark like a kettle,\" \"something that did not know what it was itself\" — are more knowing than Burnett's plain narratorial style and briefly break the pastiche.
The mandated plain statement of feeling is over-signposted — "we had been not saying it since the Napolitain, and it was the same thing we had not been saying for two years" narrates the subtext outright, briefly breaking the iceberg restraint the rest of the chapter sustains.
In an otherwise meticulous period pastiche, the invented London letter is the weak joint — an anachronistic King's Cross departure in 1848 and a slightly too-convenient solicitor's warning that exists mainly to deliver the brief's required exposition.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.