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HauntShell: A Haunted Terminal and Séance Altar Honoring Dead Technologies

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HauntShell is an open-source retro terminal built for the Hacktoberfest AI Challenge's Ghost in the Machine theme, timed to Halloween and Día de los Muertos. It intercepts common shell commands such as git commit, rm -rf, and sudo reboot, responding with eerie, darkly humorous commentary and tracking invented "ectoplasm levels." A separate digital altar lets users converse with personas representing obsolete technologies, including Adobe Flash, Ada Lovelace, COBOL, and GeoCities. The project runs on open-weight models through Ollama, with cloud backups via Groq and Gemini and a built-in offline fallback for testing. Its ambient soundscape is generated entirely in the browser using the Web Audio API, requiring no sound files or internet connection.

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