Requiem: a crash post-mortem that speaks as the program that died

Description and use

Requiem is a CLI that locally captures program crashes, redacts secrets, and outputs a concise obituary card with cause, fix, and a first‑person eulogy, all without external network calls.

Problem

Crashes produce sensitive logs that risk leaking private data when sent to external services.

Outcome

Requiem provides a privacy‑preserving, offline crash post‑mortem that outputs a readable obituary card, including cause, fix, and a program‑voice eulogy.

Workflow

• Run the target command via requiem run -- <cmd>
• Capture exit code, signal, duration, and stderr/stdout
• Parse traceback and map signals to names
• Redact secrets from captured output
• Query local Gemma 3 1B model for diagnosis and eulogy (or fallback to deterministic output)
• Store obituary in data/obituaries.jsonl
• Display obituary card in terminal

Evidence

Requiem produces an obituary card with the cause of death, a suggested fix, and a first person eulogy written as if the program itself were speaking.

Source

All of this is stdlib Python, about 400 lines. No API keys. No network calls when using --no-model.

Source

Crash logs are sensitive. A traceback can contain file paths, hostnames, SQL, auth headers, customer data, or tokens. Sending that to a cloud crash explainer leaks private information.

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