The Standings → Fable 5.1 (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 high0.77 low0.76✳ medium0.75
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,588 words on average · est. generation cost $15.15
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 (4.63); momentum the weakest (3.97). 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 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 1.00 | 0.75† | 2,558 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.86 | 0.83 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 3,005 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.85 | 0.83 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 2,930 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 2,918 |
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.83 | 2,330 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.81 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 2,849 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.81 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 1,865 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.81 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.79 | 2,071 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.79 | 0.75 | 2,561 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.79 | 0.75 | 2,790 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.00 against GPT-5.6 Sol 0.75 on Dracula (item 015).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Four of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range. The War of the Worlds and Leave It to Psmith and Persuasion and The Moonstone and The Awakening and Red Harvest ran over by 405 and 130 and 318 and 49 and 65 and 190 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The most damaging flaw is that the brief's machinery occasionally shows through the surface — most visibly in Poirot announcing "I have one question to ask you, and one only," which telegraphs the required beat instead of letting it arise naturally, and in the two-hour search being compressed into a paragraph of summary between the chapter's two strong scenes.
The chapter's first half is spent re-narrating events the reader already has from the source chapter — the three proposals and the camp-fire dinner retold from extra angles in Seward's and Lucy's documents — which delays the chapter's genuinely new material (the Bistritz letter, Renfield's question) and slackens its early momentum.
The chapter occasionally slips from Hemingway's flat understatement into self-conscious epigram ("Everywhere else people were awake because they could not sleep," "Everybody is something"), and the mandated plain sentence about Biarritz over-explains a jealousy the dialogue had already made perfectly legible.
The crowd-gathering middle stretch turns into a leisurely catalogue (the beer barrel, the constable, the trap, the disappointed sightseers) that pads the chapter well past its budget and lets the tension built by the cylinder's unnatural regularity go slack before the burning revives it.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.