This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

What I Built

Software dies all the time, and nobody holds a funeral. It just stops being sold, or the servers go off, or a better thing replaces it and everyone agrees not to talk about it any more. So I built a séance.

It Looks Like You're Trying to Hold a Séance is a small local web app for talking to dead software. You fill in a summoning card - who are you calling, what were they, when did they die, one thing you remember about them - and a local open-weight model forges that spirit: its voice, its habits, its memories, its unfinished business. Then you talk to it, by candlelight, for as long as the candle lasts.

There are two kinds of ghost in it, and the difference between them is the whole point.

The first kind is the ghost we mourn. The summoned spirit is bound by one rule, which I call the honesty rule: it may only speak from its spirit sheet and from what you tell it.…