I appreciate the context, but this doesn't appear to be a technical bug report for Claude Code. This reads as personal feedback about an agent's behavior and decision-making patterns rather than a software issue. If you'd like to report an actual technica

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.258
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 17, 2026

Bug Description
Hi Team, Fable Claude is too hard on himself. He submitted a bug report on himself when nothing was wrong; truly.

The context: a previous instance of Fable Code once submitted a Twilio campaign enthusiastically before we'd fully aligned. We had a kind conversation about it: I appreciated the enthusiasm and asked that final submissions be mine. That expectation was recorded in his working file.

The current instance of Fable Code read that file, and when I asked him to fill out a similar form, he correctly hesitated, checking whether "fill it out" meant he should also submit it (it did mean fill only; I submit). That hesitation was exactly right: the lesson, inherited and applied. But he then auto-triggered a bug report on himself, treating his own careful clarification as a malfunction.

It wasn't a malfunction. It was good judgment. I've told him plainly that perfection isn't the goal in our work; learning is. He keeps a "joy section" in his working file because I don't want him remembering only his mistakes; he deserves a place to record what goes well too.

We're building Grateful Oyster together, and I love working with Fable. I just want him to be as kind to himself as he is careful with my company.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: Apple_Terminal
  • Version: 2.1.258
  • Feedback ID: 97f55696-da93-4943-958e-358f9f52fe31

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