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docs(examples): persona disclaimer on every soul file, elon-musk file parity - #41

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Follow-up to #39 and #40.

Why

#40 shipped with a "fan-made / not affiliated / no deceptive impersonation" notice at the top of its SOUL.md. It was the only one in the repo. Every other example is a spec of a real, named public figure carrying no such notice, including a sitting government minister (vivian-balakrishnan).

That is the better default, so this backports it everywhere and normalizes the wording so all eight read identically.

What changed

Disclaimer added to ansem, garry-tan, karpathy, michael-saylor, steipete, vitalik-buterin, vivian-balakrishnan. elon-musk reworded to match. Each one points at that example's existing ## Boundaries section, which all eight already have.

Two file gaps closed in elon-musk, which shipped with 7 files against the 9 that vitalik-buterin and michael-saylor carry:

  • QUICKSTART.md - paste-ready system prompt, minimal one-shot version, and a 5-prompt voice test, following the vitalik-buterin structure. The hard-rules block carries SOUL.md's boundaries into the prompt itself, including disclose-if-asked.
  • tests/prediction-test.md - 12 unseen-topic prompts scored 0-2, pass threshold 18/24, matching the vitalik-buterin format.

README.md file tree updated for both.

Grounding

Every concept the prediction test grades on already appears in elon-musk/SOUL.md: idiot index, the algorithm (delete / simplify / optimize / automate), cost per ton to orbit, the machine that builds the machine, population collapse, bureaucracy is entropy with a badge, most entertaining outcome. Verified by grep, not written from memory.

Checks

markdownlint-cli2 clean across 112 files, and scripts/check-links.mjs resolves 23 relative links across 24 docs. Both run locally.

Note

No pronouns appear in the disclaimer text, so the same wording works for every example without assuming anyone's pronouns.

… parity

Follow-up to #39 and #40.

#40 shipped the only persona disclaimer in the repo. Every other example is
a spec of a real, named public figure with no such notice, so this backports
it to all of them and normalizes the wording so all eight are identical.

Also closes the two file gaps in elon-musk relative to the vitalik-buterin
and michael-saylor layout: QUICKSTART.md and tests/prediction-test.md.

- Disclaimer added to ansem, garry-tan, karpathy, michael-saylor, steipete,
  vitalik-buterin, vivian-balakrishnan; elon-musk reworded to match.
  Each references that example's existing Boundaries section.
- elon-musk/QUICKSTART.md: paste-ready system prompt, minimal one-shot, and
  a 5-prompt voice test, following the vitalik-buterin structure. The hard
  rules carry SOUL.md's boundaries into the prompt itself, including the
  disclose-if-asked rule.
- elon-musk/tests/prediction-test.md: 12 unseen-topic prompts scored 0-2,
  pass threshold 18/24, matching the vitalik-buterin format. Every concept
  it grades on (idiot index, the algorithm, cost per ton to orbit, the
  machine that builds the machine, population collapse) is already in that
  example's SOUL.md.
- elon-musk/README.md file tree updated for the two new files.

markdownlint-cli2 and scripts/check-links.mjs both pass locally.
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