Fable 5 safeguard false-positives derail long agent sessions
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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 18, 2026
During a legitimate dev session (applying a database migration to my own product's prod DB), Fable 5's safeguards flagged routine messages twice (02:59Z and 03:08Z on 2026-07-27). The first flag silently switched my session to Opus 4.8 (despite switchModelsOnFlag: false); the second erred every retry, and because the flagged content remained in context the session could not recover — I lost roughly an hour and two work items.
Separately: in the mobile app's live voice mode, tool calls play a loud repeating progress chime with no mute setting, which makes long-running tool loops unusable by ear.
Requests:
- Safeguard flags should not fire on credential-indirection dev-ops text, or should degrade more gracefully than silent model switching.
- A visible "this turn was flagged — rephrase it" recovery hint.
- A sounds toggle for live-mode tool calls.