The Standings → Fable 5
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 xhigh0.80 medium0.75✳
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,157 words on average · est. generation cost $5.13
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 War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.88 | 0.83 | 0.96 | 0.86 | 2,225 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.85 | 0.79 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 2,267 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.83 | 0.79 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 2,659 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 2,371 |
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.81 | 0.83 | 0.88 | 0.71 | 1,886 |
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.79 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.71† | 2,144 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.78 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.75 | 2,408 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 2,115 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.79 | 0.67 | 1,528 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.70 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 0.68 | 1,969 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.92 against GPT-5.6 Sol 0.71 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’.
Franklin's blanket deferral (\"Not to-night... you shall have the whole story out of me... to-morrow\") lets the chapter withhold its central mystery by authorial fiat rather than dramatising it, and sits awkwardly against Betteredge's earlier note that when he asked Franklin that same day, Franklin believed \"It\" meant the Moonstone.
Elizabeth's startling support for Anne—the chapter's biggest character surprise—is rationalized by a narratorial aside ('proceeded from her pride rather than her principles') and then quietly dropped by dinner-time, so the brief's most difficult beat is explained and disposed of rather than fully dramatized.
The chapter's first required beat — Eve returning the umbrella with her note — is delivered as a pluperfect flashback wedged inside Walderwick's grievance rather than played in the chapter's present line, so the one scene that belongs to Eve's initiative arrives second-hand and slightly muffled.
Mr Craven rides silently through nearly half the chapter as an atmospheric prop, and his one charged moment—the "queer, sharp look, as if she had reminded him of something"—gestures at a significance the chapter never develops, so his mandated presence adds mood but no drama.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.