Necro‑Shell: An Adversarial, LLM‑Powered Haunted Terminal

Description and use

Necro‑Shell turns a standard terminal into an interactive horror experience by adding eerie, context‑aware whispers before executing commands, powered by a local LLM.

Problem

Transform a conventional command‑line interface into an interactive psychological horror experience.

Outcome

Users experience a terminal that comments on their actions with cryptic, unsettling whispers, turning routine command execution into a horror narrative.

Workflow

• Install Ollama and pull a model (e.g., llama3).
• Install required Python packages (requests).
• Run necro_shell.py as a wrapper around the shell.\nThe script intercepts user input, sends it to the local LLM with a system prompt, receives a short whisper, displays it, then executes the command.\nSpecial handling for 'cd' is performed natively.\nThe whisper is optionally glitched with random symbols for added effect.

Evidence

Necro‑Shell is a terminal wrapper designed to transform the sterile, logical environment of a command‑line interface into a psychological horror experience.

Source

It uses a local, open‑weight Large Language Model to monitor your command inputs, interpret your intent, and "whisper" unsettling, context‑aware commentary back to you before executing the task.

Source

To run this locally, ensure you have Ollama running with llama3 pulled (ollama pull llama3), and install requests (pip install requests).

Source