Leaked code suggests Anthropic may restore Fable 5

Anthropic appears to be preparing to restore Fable 5 and to include weekly Fable 5 usage in subscription plans after new strings were discovered in Claude Code version 2.1.190 that reference a weekly allowance instead of a separately purchased credits pack.

A user identifying as “synthwavedd” posted on X that the packaged Claude Code v2.1.190 executable contains UI text reading, “You’ve used your Fable 5 usage for this week.” Independent checks downloaded the macOS Apple Silicon Claude Code package from npm, extracted the bundled executable and ran a strings utility. The extracted text included a longer variant: “You’ve used your included Fable 5 usage for this week. Continuing on Fable 5 uses usage credits.”

Text that previously noted the model was “purchased separately from your plan” does not appear in the inspected binary, which indicates the wording around access and billing was changed in the packaged code.

Amazon’s Bedrock model catalog lists Claude Fable 5 as an offering sold by Anthropic. The Bedrock listing, together with the new strings in Claude Code, has led to public attention and discussion about a possible relist of the model.

Fable 5 was removed from public availability on June 12 after the U.S. government issued an emergency export control directive citing a potential jailbreak vulnerability. Anthropic complied with the suspension and disputed the assessment. The company’s status page still shows an outage that began on June 13 and lists no restoration date.

Anthropic replaced CEO Dario Amodei with cofounder Tom Brown as the company’s White House point person on Fable 5. Brown has met with the Commerce Secretary and the National Cyber Director to discuss a framework for evaluating AI jailbreak incidents. Anthropic released a statement thanking the administration for its “ongoing partnership.”

Code-level text changes are common during product development and do not guarantee a timeline for release. The presence of UI copy in a production binary shows the product team is preparing for a potential feature rollout, but Fable 5 remains offline while Anthropic and U.S. officials continue discussions and no restoration date has been announced.