Add Claude Fable 5 to Anthropic BYOK (#58945) (cherry-pick to stable) by rtfeldman · Pull Request #58957 · zed-industries/zed

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Adds support for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model when using your own
Anthropic API key. Because Fable 5 cannot be offered under Zero Data
Retention (Anthropic retains inference logs for 30 days), this gates the
model behind an explicit data-retention consent: a new
telemetry.anthropic_retention setting (default off, surfaced in the
Privacy section of the settings UI), and a hard, non-retryable check in
the cloud completion path that raises a typed error when consent is
missing.

When Fable 5 declines a request, it transparently falls back to Claude
Opus 4.8 (matching Anthropic's server-side behavior), and the agent
panel shows a callout for the consent error with "Switch to Opus 4.8" /
"Accept" actions that resume the failed turn so the user's message
continues without retyping.

Closes AI-382

Release Notes:

- Add Claude Fable 5 to Anthropic BYOK

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Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikayla@zed.dev>
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Resolves a leftover TODO from the Claude Fable 5 data-retention work:
the "Learn More" button in the data-retention consent callout pointed at
a `#link-tbd` placeholder, so it did nothing. It now opens Anthropic's
data retention practices support article.

Release Notes:

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