elon-algorithm

elon-algorithm is a skill for Claude Code from nityeshaga/claude-code-essentials. It costs 176 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for aggressively simplifying code, prompts, skills, documents, or prose by questioning requirements, deleting material, and simplifying what remains. It creates a copy and returns a reviewable plan of the proposed cuts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for trimming code, prompts, agent skills, documentation, and other written material.
Why use it?
It helps identify and remove unnecessary complexity or filler while keeping the original available for review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the elon-algorithm plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for trimming code, prompts, agent skills, documentation, and other written material.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nityeshaga/claude-code-essentials/elon-algorithm
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.

Any agent
npx skills add nityeshaga/claude-code-essentials --skill elon-algorithm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nityeshaga/claude-code-essentials

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elon-algorithm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for elon-algorithm

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for elon-algorithm

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,267 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00176 $0.01267
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.00507
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c925c1cd9312, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elon-algorithm 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 1mo 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.

plugins/elon-algorithm/skills/elon-algorithm/SKILL.md · 74 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A c925c1cd9312

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elon-algorithm is a skill published in the GitHub repository nityeshaga/claude-code-essentials (59 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 1,267 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.