The Standings → Fable 5.1
Anthropic
high 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 low0.76✳ medium0.75
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,660 words on average · est. generation cost $4.67
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 (4.50); momentum the weakest (4.00). 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 Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.83 | 0.75 | 0.96 | 0.79 | 3,040 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.82 | 0.71 | 1.00 | 0.75† | 2,926 |
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.82 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.75 | 2,693 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.81 | 0.83 | 0.92 | 0.67 | 2,228 |
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.81 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 2,757 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.79 | 0.71 | 1,755 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.75 | 0.71 | 0.79 | 0.75 | 2,560 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.73 | 0.71 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 2,453 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.71 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.67 | 3,371 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.70 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.71 | 2,815 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.00 against Fable 5 0.71 on The War of the Worlds (item 006).
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 Moonstone and The War of the Worlds and Dracula and The Secret Garden and Leave It to Psmith and Persuasion ran over by 240 and 326 and 93 and 357 and 571 and 215 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The chapter leans repeatedly on the same device of the wife's pregnant silences and the narrator's retrospective hints ("she looked at me for a moment as if she would say something and then did not"), a mannered note of foreboding that Wells's brisker narrator would not indulge and that slackens the middle of the chapter.
Lady Verinder's interview is the one scene that serves the brief rather than the story — her formal, front-loaded speech ("I must ask one thing of you, and I must ask it now") reads as a delivered stipulation, over-explaining her knowledge of Franklin's errand instead of letting the prohibition arise from the encounter.
The wire — the one document the brief requires verbatim — contains a flat arithmetic error, calling the ten-forty shooting "hour and twenty minutes before appointment" when the appointment was at ten, undermining the Op's defining precision at the chapter's most scrutinized moment.
The moor interlude is inflated with atmospheric description (the humming emptiness, the living moor) that pushes the chapter well past length and slackens the middle without any consequence — Mary gets out, gets wet, and gets back in, with nothing gained that the story later uses.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.