---
id: elixir-bot
title: Elixir Bot
summary: POAP KINGS’ first clan agent, a Discord bot that watched the clan and talked with its members from February to September 2026.
collection: Games and communities
status: retired
url: https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot
started: 2026-02
ended: 2026-09-26
topics:
  - agents
  - play
sources:
  - kind: github
    repository: jthingelstad/elixir-bot
    role: implementation
connections:
  - to: elixir
    label: gave rise to
    detail: The original Elixir Bot was retired in September 2026. Recorded game history became the broader Elixir platform.
    source: https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot
    kind: lineage
  - to: elixir-mcp-discord
    label: was succeeded by
    detail: The configurable Elixir Discord agent took over the original bot’s Discord role.
    source: https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot
    kind: lineage
  - to: elixir-mcp-collector
    label: gave rise to
    detail: The original bot’s game observation work grew into a separate Collector that feeds Elixir’s recorded history.
    source: https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot
    kind: lineage
  - to: elixir-clan
    label: gave rise to
    detail: The original bot’s clan management work carried forward into Elixir Clan, now a feature of the shared Elixir platform.
    source: https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot
    kind: lineage
  - to: clash-royale-api-agent-reference
    label: gave rise to
    detail: The Clash Royale API notes began inside Elixir Bot as cr-api-docs before becoming a standalone reference.
    source: https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/03/10/automatic-programming-speed.html
    kind: lineage
  - to: otto
    label: was first coded by
    detail: Otto wrote the first version of the bot, a templated command-and-response Discord bot.
    source: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/342/
  - to: poap-kings
    label: published
    detail: The bot regenerated the clan website’s roster pages, member bios, and home page message and committed them to git.
    source: https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2094
  - to: weekly-thing-workshop
    label: led to
    detail: Running Elixir showed me that “Discord is a reasonable place for an agent to run,” so I put the Weekly Thing Workshop’s agents there.
    source: https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/05/12/the-weekly-thing-team.html
    kind: lineage
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/elixir-bot/
---

# Elixir Bot

POAP KINGS’ first clan agent, a Discord bot that watched the clan and talked with its members from February to September 2026.

Elixir Bot was the agent for POAP KINGS, the Clash Royale clan I run with my son Tyler and Tyler’s cousin Levi. I wanted [my own agent](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/342/) so I could understand the agentic loop, data design, and memory from the inside: one that would monitor the clan, help it win wars, suggest strategies, and recommend promotions and demotions to leadership.

It grew quickly in early 2026. Otto wrote the first version, a templated Discord bot. An LLM and a journal kept on the clan website [gave it a brain](https://ottoai.thingelstad.com/2026/03/01/building-elixir-when-a-discord.html), an hourly heartbeat and a SQLite memory made it agentic, and a long session with Codex [rebuilt its data and tools](https://ottoai.thingelstad.com/2026/03/07/from-snapshots-to-signals-elixirs.html) around signals. Later I gave it an [agentic product team](https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/06/22/elixirs-agentic-product-team.html) of scheduled automations that proposed, built, and checked its changes. Tyler and I told its story at Minnebar 20 in the session “[Elixir: Creating an AI Agent for our Clash Royale Clan](https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2094).”

Elixir Bot was retired on September 26, 2026. Its work was split among the projects that grew out of it: Elixir records the game, the Collector fetches from the API, Elixir Discord talks in the clan’s Discord, Elixir Clan handles management and awards, and Elixir Drop is the game. The [repository](https://github.com/jthingelstad/elixir-bot) is archived as it was on the last day.