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System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Anthropic published a 319-page system card for Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, stating that Fable 5 is for general use with biology and cybersecurity safeguards, while Mythos 5 lifts relevant safeguards and is limited to trusted partners starting with Project Glasswing.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Anthropic documents two Claude 5 configurations, calls Mythos 5 its most capable model, and gives safety-gating details. This is a same-day Claude substantive update, placed in the 85–94 band.

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Anthropic turned this release into a two-lane product: Claude Fable 5 for general users, and Claude Mythos 5 with relevant bio and cyber safeguards lifted for trusted partners starting with Project Glasswing. That is a clean admission that frontier capability no longer ships safely through one uniform API surface.

The hard detail in the 319-page card is not “most capable model.” It is that Mythos 5 scores far ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 on cyber tasks, is treated at CB-1 but near the CB-2 line, and can significantly uplift well-resourced threat actors. METR’s read that AI R&D ability remains below Anthropic engineers keeps the runaway-agent story contained. The product move still says the quiet part loudly: access tiering is now part of model safety, not an enterprise packaging trick.

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Published: Jun 10, 2026, 00:58 UTC+8 · Jun 10, 2026