ask-fable (baggybin/ask-fable) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 56 out of 100, grade D. It declares 40 tools. The publisher has confirmed an email address for this listing, which proves an inbox rather than ownership (Claimed).

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56/100

ask-fable

Item: ask-fable
Rating: 56
Author: M8ven

Portable MCP reasoning server for coding agents — Claude Code, OpenCode, Kimi Code, Grok, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP client. Fable, Opus 5, and multi-model councils.

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: ASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

Are you the publisher? Confirm or correct these findings.

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

configCLAUDECODE

configCLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT

configAI_AGENT

configGROK_AGENT

configCODEX_THREAD_ID

configCODEX_CI

configOPENCODE_XATS_BASE_URL

configASK_FABLE_AGENT_ID

configASK_FABLE_PROBE_OUT

configASK_FABLE_PROBE_OLLAMA

configXDG_STATE_HOME

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

configASK_FABLE_ATLAS_BASE_URL

configASK_FABLE_ATLAS_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_ATLAS_COUNCIL

configASK_FABLE_ATLAS_SYNTHESIZER

configASK_FABLE_ATLAS_EFFORT

configASK_FABLE_EFFORT

configASK_FABLE_AUDIT_PATH

configASK_FABLE_AUDIT_RAWdefault; =1 to store raw).

configASK_FABLE_AUDIT_RAW_CONTEXT

configASK_FABLE_AUDIT_MAX_BYTES

configASK_FABLE_AUDIT_BACKUPS

configASK_FABLE_CACHE

configASK_FABLE_CACHE_TTL

configASK_FABLE_CACHE_MAX_ROWS

configASK_FABLE_CACHE_PATH

configASK_FABLE_CLI_MAX_PARALLEL

configASK_FABLE_CODEX_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_CODEX_REASONING

configASK_FABLE_CONFIG_FILE

configNO_COLOR

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_BUS

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_BUS_TOKEN_FILE

configASK_FABLE_MACHINE_ID

configASK_FABLE_MODEL_ID

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_MAX_BYTES

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_BUS_TIMEOUT

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_BUS_DB

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_BUS_SOCKET

configXDG_RUNTIME_DIR

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_KEYRING

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_HWM_PATH

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_HWM

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_PATH

configASK_FABLE_CONTEXT_MAX_ROWS

configASK_FABLE_USE_CLI

configASK_FABLE_GEMINI_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_GROK_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_GROK_REASONING

configASK_FABLE_CIRCUIT_BREAKER

configASK_FABLE_BREAKER_WINDOW

configASK_FABLE_BREAKER_THRESHOLD

configASK_FABLE_BREAKER_COOLDOWN

configASK_FABLE_HUB

configASK_FABLE_HUB_MAX_ROWS

configASK_FABLE_HUB_STALE_SECONDS

configASK_FABLE_HUB_PREVIEW_CHARS

configASK_FABLE_HUB_PATH

configASK_FABLE_KIMI_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_KIMI_EFFORT

configASK_FABLE_KIMI_HOME

configKIMI_CODE_HOME

configASK_FABLE_MINIMAX_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_BASE_URL

🔐 secretASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_API_KEY

configASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_COUNCIL

configASK_FABLE_OLLAMA_CATALOG_URL

configASK_FABLE_TIMEOUT

configASK_FABLE_MAX_TOKENS

configASK_FABLE_OPENROUTER_BASE_URL

configASK_FABLE_OPENROUTER_MODEL

configASK_FABLE_OPENROUTER_COUNCIL

configASK_FABLE_OPENROUTER_SYNTHESIZER

configASK_FABLE_OPENROUTER_EFFORT

configASK_FABLE_OUTPUT_DIR

configASK_FABLE_SAVE

configASK_FABLE_REPUTATION_PATH

configASK_FABLE_PACK_MAX_FILE_BYTES

configASK_FABLE_PROJECT_ROOT

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_DIR

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_MAX_CONTENT_BYTES

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_MAX_BUNDLES

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_QUERY_MAX_EVENTS

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_QUERY_MAX_BYTES

configASK_FABLE_PROJECT_ID

configASK_FABLE_TRACE_MAX_EVENT_BYTES

// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

40/40 tools missing one or more hints — ask (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); ask_fable_help (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); ask_opus5 (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +37 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Secrets not logged

1 secret value sent to print

Redact or omit secret values from log output.

Claim the listing to review these findings one by one and send us a correction where you disagree, straight to the team. Claiming also means we tell you when the grade moves, and reach you first if we find anything urgent.

// full audit trail

The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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