Séance Shell: A Local Ghost That Haunts Your Terminal
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built Séance Shell is a haunted terminal. A small ghost lives in your Bash or Zsh session, watches for the moments that matter, and murmurs a single eerie sentence about what just happened. It reacts to two kinds of events: Destructive-looking commands like git reset --hard , git clean -fd , or…
Séance Shell is a ghost that inhabits your Bash or Zsh terminal session. It detects destructive commands and failed builds, then generates a single reflective sentence about the event. The ghost is designed to be atmospheric, not an assistant, and it never runs commands or offers advice. Developed using open-source components like Ollama and the Gemma 3 model, the ghost only reveals its message if the local model is available.
Its purpose is to provide a moment of reflection after potentially destructive actions, offering a sense of caution without interfering with the user's workflow.
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