Models Leave. Files Stay.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about losing access to a top model: the model was never the asset. The output is.
A skill it writes, a plan it drafts, a doc it builds: those don't expire on Wednesday. Every model that comes after reads them and follows them. Which means your job this week isn't to USE Fable. It's to make Fable write everything down.
Intelligence is temporary. Artifacts are permanent. So we're converting one into the other before the clock runs out.
Copy This, Paste It, Send It
Open Claude, make sure you're on Fable, and paste this:
Swap "Wednesday" for whenever your access actually ends.
That's it. Send it and let it work.
Why Every Line of This Prompt Pulls Weight
This looks casual. It isn't. Every piece is doing a job.
"Knowing you're the smartest model out right now" puts Fable in senior-reviewer mode. It's not collaborating with you as a peer. It's doing the final inspection before handing over the keys.
"I won't have access to you starting Wednesday" is the deadline. Deadlines change how models prioritize, same as people. Fable now knows everything it produces has to stand on its own after Wednesday, with no chance to explain later.
"Audit my skills, flag the most used ones and improve them for me" aims it at your highest-leverage assets first. Your most-used skills are the instructions every future session runs on. One improvement pass there compounds every single day.
"Knowing what you know about me and my business, what else could we do" is the line most people would never write, and it's the best one. You're not asking for something you already thought of. You're letting the smartest model apply everything it knows about you to find the moves you missed. That's where the surprises come from.
"Before I have to go back to Opus" names the successor. Now Fable isn't writing notes for you. It's writing instructions for the specific model taking over, adding the explicit steps and guardrails that Opus needs spelled out where Fable would have just known.
What Actually Happens When You Run It
So you know what you're looking at when it starts working. Fable will:
- Read through your skills and rank them by which ones actually carry your workload.
- Rewrite the weak spots. Vague instructions become numbered steps. Unstated assumptions get written down. Edge cases nobody documented get documented.
- Add self-checks, so smaller models verify their own work instead of confidently winging it.
- Then answer the second half with a plan specific to YOUR business. Everyone's list is different. That's the point.
No skills yet? You're not locked out. Use this version instead:
Rebuild Your Brain Files
Your CLAUDE.md, your about-me, your brand voice file: these are the first things every future session reads. Right now they were probably written by you, or by a weaker model, or never.
Have Fable interview you and rewrite them at its level. Twenty minutes of questions, and every model you use afterward starts every conversation already knowing your business, your voice, and your standards.
Bank Your Plans While the Best Planner Is in the Building
List every project on your plate for the next 90 days. Have Fable write a full plan file for each one: goal, what's out of scope, ordered steps, and a "done when" check on every step.
Here's why this matters: planning is judgment, and judgment is exactly where smaller models fall short. Execution is where they're fine. So bank the judgment now. Fable plans it this week, Opus builds it next month, and you can't tell the difference from the output.
Get the Brutal Review While You Still Can
Ask Fable for the no-yes-man review of your whole operation: offers, pricing, positioning, where the next 12 months actually goes. Tell it to give you verdicts and odds, not encouragement. Save the whole thing to a file.
That's a strategy doc from the smartest advisor you'll have access to for a while. You'll be executing against it long after Wednesday.
Have It Write the Skills You're Missing
The audit fixes what you have. This adds what you don't. Ask Fable: "What are the 5 skills my business needs that I don't have, and write them."
Want a head start?I already ran this play. Fable wrote five essentials (a pre-ship security check, a project setup system, a planner, an honest advisor, and a fix-verifier that catches "fixed!" when it isn't) and they're free. Paste this into Claude and it sets up all five:
Upgrade the Prompts You Use Every Day
You have prompts you reuse constantly: the email drafter, the script starter, the outreach message, the content brief. Paste them in and say "make these as good as you can, and make them work well on Opus."
Ten minutes. Every one of those prompts pays you back daily, on whichever model runs it.
After the Switch
Let's be straight about what this does and doesn't do. Opus following Fable's playbook is not Fable. But it's Opus with Fable's standards, Fable's checklists, and Fable's plans, and that raises the floor of every single session you run from here on.
The people who did nothing this week go back to square one on Wednesday. You go back to a system the smartest model personally set up on its way out. Big difference.