elon
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Question a set of requirements or running commitments (a plan, spec, backlog, process, rule set, or one person's goals, projects and side projects) in Musk's fixed order: make your requirements less dumb, delete the part or process, simplify or optimize, accelerate cycle time, automate. Name the goal first, give every item a named source, what it buys, what depends on it and what re-adding it costs, propose removals and deferrals, stop for approval, and never touch an externally mandated constraint. Use when a plan is about to be built as written, or when goals, commitments or side projects compete for the same time.
How to install elon
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/depth/elon/
# into
~/.claude/skills/elon/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/elon/ (one project)
1Question every item in a set against the goal it serves, in Musk's five steps and their fixed order, and bring back a decision list the human approves item by item.23## Goal45Every item in a set spends effort: a requirement about to be built, a project already running, a recurring step, a goal one person carries beside a dozen others. Some of them should not exist, and the effort they take is effort the rest never get. elon finds those items and proposes what to do with each, so the human can stop spending on them. It proposes and the human decides; nothing changes before approval.67The method is the five steps Musk gave on the Everyday Astronaut Starbase tour (2021-08-03, from 13:36), in his words: "make your requirements less dumb", "delete the part or process", "simplify or optimize", "accelerate cycle time", and "the final step is automate". Isaacson's biography records the same five as what Musk calls "the algorithm". Here an item is a requirement, a commitment or a step, and a set is whatever list of them the human names.8…
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