Writing
Medium by default: when the token math stops adding up
An App Store review pass and one policy site burned 69% of a weekly Fable cap in ten hours. I don't know why yet, so the effort default came down to medium as a holding action.
Effort economics on Fable 5: coming down from xhigh
A day after un-pinning Ultracode, the effort default came down another notch — from xhigh to high. Why lower effort on Fable 5 isn't the downgrade it sounds like.
How I Set Up Codex as a Small Model Team
The small Codex setup I use: Sol orchestrates, Terra handles deep reasoning, and Luna handles focused implementation work.
Un-pinning Ultracode: a CLAUDE.md update
Why I stopped running Ultracode as a standing default, the per-stage effort rules that replaced it, and the two-command fallback when the Fable cap runs out.
My actual CLAUDE.md, annotated
My real global CLAUDE.md, translated line for line, with notes on why each rule is there.