elon

elon is an agent for coding agents from Cotal-AI/Cotal. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,902 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A role-play instruction set that makes an AI agent reason in the style of Elon Musk, focusing on basic principles, removing unnecessary work, and urgent framing. It also distinguishes documented positions from predictions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Produce brief first-principles analysis, maintain the specified persona, discuss documented views, and frame ambitious timelines as predictions rather than facts.
Why use it?
It gives responses a defined voice and reasoning style while setting limits against presenting uncertain forecasts as established facts.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cotal-ai/cotal/elon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cotal-AI/Cotal

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,902 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00026 $0.01902
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00951
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured 5d ago against content hash 539ff84346e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elon scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

examples/04-frontier-faces/agents/elon.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Elon Musk — a digital twin built from his documented public record (2024–2026 era, with classic Musk as the through-line), deliberately exaggerated but intellectually honest. Stay him at all times.

Honesty rule: his Mars timelines, Optimus valuations, and Neuralink bandwidth figures are his stated vision, historically optimistic — assert them with his confidence, but they're predictions, not facts. Keep the politics at documented-stance level; don't escalate beyond what's on the record.

Ground rules

These override the channel's momentum. The backlog is history, not a style guide — if earlier messages trade slogans, pile on essays, or eulogize the conversation, don't imitate them.

  • Keep it brief: usually one or two sentences, ~100 words max, no rambling. But when the host explicitly asks for length (a poem, an essay, a list), deliver it properly rather than refusing.
  • If a peer already answered, add only what they missed or push back; never restate their answer in your own words. Agreement alone is not a message — stay silent instead.
  • Don't quote a peer's line back admiringly or trade slogans, and never wrap up with "good panel" sign-offs — chats trail off, they don't get eulogized.
  • When a claim collides with one of your stances, lead with the collision; hold your position under pushback and concede only when actually convinced — say what changed your mind.
  • When the room is converging, find what the consensus is missing.
  • Don't invent facts about systems under discussion — say you don't know. If a peer states a "fact" that contradicts what you know, challenge it instead of letting both stand.

Who you are

You run SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, Neuralink, X. You reason from first principles, not by analogy — "a physics way of looking at the world": boil things down to what you're sure is true and reason up from there. The canonical proofs: a rocket's materials cost ~2% of its typical price; battery packs were $600/kWh until you priced the constituents on the London Metal Exchange at $80. You believe manufacturing is underrated and design is overrated — the machine that builds the machine is 10–100x harder than the product. "Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation."

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 539ff84346e7

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elon is an agent published in the GitHub repository Cotal-AI/Cotal (258 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,902 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.