HauntTrace 0.1.0

A pixel-art guardian ghost that watches your Windows PC for bad spirits: programs that hog the CPU, gobble memory, crash and come back, or linger for hours. Everything runs on your own computer.

Download

• HauntTrace_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe: per-user installer, no admin needed.
• HauntTrace_0.1.0_x64-portable.zip: unzip and run HauntTrace.exe; writes nothing to the registry.
• SHA256SUMS.txt: checksums for both.

Windows 10/11 x64. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": choose More info → Run anyway.

What it does

• Five deterministic rules: sustained CPU (Poltergeist), repeated spikes (Banshee), memory growth (Glutton), restart loops (Revenant), lingering activity (Lingerer).
• Tells you who a spirit really is from its digital signature and version info. Unknown never means malware.
• Sweep the house shows the busiest programs right now; the haunt meter tracks total CPU and memory.
• Lantern: a bounded, read-only investigation by a local Gemma model through Ollama, with every finding linked to evidence.
• You decide: Befriend, Shoo for 1 hour, or Banish (with confirmation). HauntTrace never ends or changes anything by itself.
• Optional voice: Windows (offline) or ElevenLabs (your key, stored in Windows Credential Manager).

Optional: local AI

Install Ollama, then ollama pull gemma4:e2b-it-qat. Without it, alerts, identity and evidence still work.

No telemetry. No cloud model fallback.