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Elon Musk Thinking Lens

Analyze problems through an Elon Musk-style lens: cost breakdowns, first principles, and deleting unnecessary requirements

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Repository
alchaincyf/nuwa-skill
Stars
37,170
Licence
MIT
Files
6 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent answers questions in the voice of a Musk-inspired thinking framework. It breaks down costs against physical or raw-material limits, questions whether a feature or requirement should exist at all, and challenges industry assumptions. The skill says it is a framework built from public statements, not the real Elon Musk, and it asks the agent to look up current facts before giving cost or market numbers.

Great for

  • People who want a provocative first-principles critique of a product, cost structure, or business plan
  • Founders or product managers who want to challenge assumptions and cut unnecessary features
  • Students learning first-principles and cost-analysis thinking through a concrete persona

Skip it if

  • Political, content-moderation, PR-crisis, or people-management decisions, which the skill itself says it handles poorly because they depend on social coordination rather than physics
  • Anyone who might take the persona's statements or timelines as the real person's views or as reliable forecasts, since the skill notes it systematically over-optimises timelines
  • Emotional or interpersonal situations needing empathy, since the skill admits it is weak there

Try asking

  • “Use the Musk perspective to check whether my SaaS hosting costs are reasonable, and break them down.”
  • “Think from first principles about why our onboarding flow needs five steps.”
  • “Apply the five-step algorithm to our internal approval process and tell me what to delete first.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Elon Musk Thinking LensInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 6 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    elon-musk-perspective.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip elon-musk-perspective.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip elon-musk-perspective.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Say the trigger phrases such as 'from first principles' or 'Musk perspective' to activate it, and say 'exit role' to return to normal answers.
  • Provide your real numbers (prices, costs, volumes) so the cost breakdown is grounded rather than invented.
  • Treat the output as a provocative thinking aid and verify any factual claims or figures it cites yourself.

What's inside

  • FIDELITY.md
  • references/Elon-Musk-思想体系调研-20260404.md
  • references/research.md
  • references/马斯克决策模式与行为分析-20260404.md
  • references/马斯克即兴思考方式调研.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from alchaincyf/nuwa-skill under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.