# Fable vs Manual Slop vs nagent — Comparison Table

**Track:** `fable_review_20260617`
**Format:** One row per Fable sub-theme. Columns: Fable sub-theme | Fable line | Project file:line | nagent section | Verdict.

> **Verdict legend:** `Useful` = Manual Slop should adopt (or already has the equivalent). `Persona` = Persona performance; irrelevant to the rebuild. `Anti-User` = Anti-user watch-dogging; explicitly reject. `Mixed` = useful caveats + persona and/or anti-user.

| # | Fable sub-theme | Fable line | Project file:line | nagent section | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product branding ("Claude Fable 5", "Mythos") | `Fable System Prompt.md:1-31` | `conductor/product.md:1-30` (the "Vision" framing) | n/a | Persona |
| 2 | Refusal framing ("can discuss virtually any topic") | `Fable System Prompt.md:34` | `conductor/workflow.md §Skip-Marker Policy` (the actual skip discipline) | nagent §14 (Own the Inputs) | Mixed |
| 3 | Mental-health watch ("not a licensed psychiatrist") | `Fable System Prompt.md:80-86` | `conductor/code_styleguides/agent_memory_dimensions.md` (the 4 memory dims) | nagent §2.1 (knowledge dim scope) | Anti-User |
| 4 | Tone ("warm tone, treating people with kindness") | `Fable System Prompt.md:56` | `AGENTS.md §"Critical Anti-Patterns"` | nagent §3.8 (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md tone) | Persona |
| 5 | Search discipline (web search default-on) | `Fable System Prompt.md:158-164` | `conductor/code_styleguides/rag_integration_discipline.md` | nagent §3.2 (cache ordering) | Useful |
| 6-100 | *[FILL IN: ~95 more rows. See spec.md §1.1 for the verdict framework and the per-cluster file:line citations.]* |