Private beta · Runs on your machine

The Dead Man's Scroll

A memory archaeologist for your own filesystem. It digs through what you've already built, assembles the pieces into something runnable, and then grades that artifact by whether it actually runs.

You ask “have I built something like this before?” The scroll answers from your own disk.

dead-man's-scroll
$mayanrick read ~/some/foldermechanical glyph mining — no model call
$dms ~/some/folderthe invention TUI on that cave
$hoardwhat it built, and the command to run each one
$reality-gate --runexecute every artifact in a sandboxed HOME

Private beta — macOS, Python 3.8+. No hosted version, no public install yet · hello@llmdorado.com

You already built itMine the caveThe model is the second passHollow is not goldNothing leaves your machineYou already built itMine the caveThe model is the second passHollow is not goldNothing leaves your machine

The dig

Five stages, and two of them are gates

Most of a dig costs nothing. The model is called once, for the patterns that already fired, and everything it produces has to get past a filter that has seen the rest of the hoard.

01

Mine

MayanRick walks a directory for cheap filesystem signals and matches them against a library of eleven glyphs. Nothing is sent anywhere at this stage.

02

Judge

Only the glyphs that fired reach a model. The pin is grok-4.5 for its 500k context — a dig wants the whole cave in one prompt, which is why the higher version number is not the better model here.

03

Invent

Fired patterns get assembled into a runnable artifact and written to the hoard alongside notes on what it is, which pieces it came from, and why they belong together.

04

Novelty gate

IDF-weighted cosine over stemmed, boilerplate-stripped tokens, judged against the three nearest neighbours — not just the closest one, which is how a paraphrase used to slip through.

05

Reality gate

Every artifact is executed with HOME and CWD redirected into a temp directory and API keys stripped. Verdicts: real, needs-args, no-data, hollow, broken, slow.

The hoard

What it has actually produced

The index marked all 38 of these ok: true, which only ever meant a model returned a file. These are the verdicts after each one was executed.

38
artifacts built
31
run and do something
2
broken
1
hollow

The verdict that matters

Hollow

A script that prints nothing and a script that works looked identical in the index. The gate separates them: hollow means it exits clean and produces almost nothing. One artifact in the hoard is hollow. Before the gate existed, it read as gold.

Measured, not asserted

The novelty filter

Against the real hoard it caught 4 of 4 known duplicates, including a paraphrase that shared no vocabulary with its original, with no false positives. The substring check it replaced caught none of them — four artifacts built on one idea in different nouns all passed.

Built for builders

What's in the chest

Local-first

The dig reads your files on your machine. There is no upload step and no hosted index — the only thing that leaves is the prompt for a glyph that already fired.

Mechanical first

Glyph matching is filesystem signals and string work, so a scan of a directory that holds nothing interesting costs nothing. The model is the second pass, not the first.

A hoard you can actually use

hoard lists every artifact grouped by whether it needs input, with a handle that is round-trip tested against the command it prints. hoard try runs one against a temp HOME before you trust it.

Plain commands, plus MCP

mayanrick, dms, hoard, reality-gate and ghost-hours-digest are ordinary CLIs. An MCP server exposes the same commands to any host that speaks the protocol.

Scope

What ships, and what doesn't

Working today

  • mayanrick read glyph mining over any directory, with a fixture suite that has to stay green
  • dms the invention TUI, and the loop that turns fired patterns into artifacts
  • hoard browse and run everything the loop has built
  • reality-gate static checks, or full execution in a redirected HOME
  • ghost-hours-digest hours you concentrated and filed nothing
  • An MCP server exposing the same commands to any MCP host

Not yet

  • No packaged install. Access today means a clone and a few symlinks on PATH.
  • macOS only. Nothing about the engine is mac-specific, but nothing else is tested.
  • No hosted version, and none planned — a dig reads your whole filesystem, which is not a thing to hand to a server.
  • The old Node cli.js interface is stale and unmaintained. The engine is Python.
  • The reality gate bounds the filesystem blast radius. It is not a security sandbox and does not block network access.

Ready to read your own cave?

The scroll is in private beta and access is handed out one at a time. Tell me what your cave looks like and how much of it you've forgotten.

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