{"slug": "wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal", "title": "Wraith - A Ghost in your terminal", "summary": "A developer built Wraith, a terminal-themed web interface that runs the open-weight Qwen 2.5 3B model locally through Ollama and gives it four distinct personas — Geocities, Fortran, Deleted File and Unix Daemon — that react to typed command text without executing it. The project, submitted to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, is designed to observe commands rather than run them, and includes a local API connection check and a recent-memories view.", "body_md": "*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26)*\n\nWhat if\n\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mwpEO69gZUw7b9c-xYe-d7hL8LkPO7U-/view?usp=drive_link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mwpEO69gZUw7b9c-xYe-d7hL8LkPO7U-/view?usp=drive_link)\n\n[https://github.com/sreevatsarajesh/Wraith-](https://github.com/sreevatsarajesh/Wraith-)\n\nWraith uses Qwen 2.5 3B, an open-weight language model served locally through Ollama.\n\nThe four spirits each have a distinct identity:\n\nGeocities — a relic of the old web, guestbooks, webrings, and forgotten homepages.\n\nFortran — an echo from the age of punch cards and mainframes.\n\nDeleted File — a voice from things that disappeared but left traces behind.\n\nUnix Daemon — a quiet keeper of processes, logs, and system secrets.\n\nThe web interface lets you choose a spirit, send command text for a reaction, check the local API connection, and explore recent memories. The interface is designed to observe command text rather than execute arbitrary commands.\n\nWraith depends on the freedom to run an open-weight model locally built\n\nI wanted to capture a very specific feeling: opening an old terminal late at night and imagining that something has been there longer than you have.\n\nThe old internet had personality which I wanted to bring back\n\nBest Use of Entire — sharing the agent session behind Wraith's development, provided the session is recorded and linked using the challenge's required workflow.\n\nTHE TERMINAL IS WATCHING", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/sreevatsarajesh/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal-4d5n", "published_at": "2026-10-28 15:35:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 15:41:28.961272+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Wraith", "Qwen 2.5 3B", "Ollama", "Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wraith-a-ghost-in-your-terminal.jsonld"}}