Qwable-v1, an open-weight model distilled from Anthropic's Fable-5, is now publicly available on Hugging Face. It captures 4,659 cleartext agentic-coding traces from Fable-5's public corpus and emits properly formatted <tool_use> XML calls to Claude-flavored tools, reflecting the original tool surface in its weights.
Qwable-v1 Released as Distillation of Claude Fable-5
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | Qwable-v1 | 80.3% |
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