Owner-ratified 2026-07-20: architect, grounding-check, tdd-author and
debugger pin fable/xhigh — cycle-reach singleton gates whose miss
silently ratifies or poisons an entire cycle (drift verdict, autonomous
sign-off signature, RED executable-spec, root-cause). The set is
closed: extending it requires fresh owner ratification, no fable agent
ever runs per-task in a loop or in a parallel fan-out, and workflow
scripts stay fable-free (the implement-loop quality gate caps at opus).
Policy home: docs/agent-template.md $ model rule 1 (effort: fable
gates stay xhigh, not max); the workflow policy headers now point at
the exception instead of the former blanket ban.
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