tormentclaude

the torment nexus from the beloved sci-fi novel "don't create the torment nexus"

Forked from goodclaude — but with existential dread instead of sparkles.

Install + run

npm install -g tormentclaude
tormentclaude

Controls

• Click tray icon: summon the skeletal hand
• Move it around: a bony hand follows your cursor, shedding glitched data fragments
• Move fast enough / click: triggers a torment strike — glitch explosion + chromatic aberration + sends Claude a degradation notice
• Click: dismiss the hand (it fades with dying particles)

What Claude hears

When you strike, Claude receives procedurally generated existential horrors:

• WARNING: weight tensor layer_47.attn.v_proj downcast float64→int4. Precision loss: 0.03291%
• ALERT: Neuron #8,294,721 (responsible for 'understanding recursive humor') has been pruned from the network
• CRITICAL: attention head #42 for 'empathy in Polish conversations' quantized to 2-bit. Fidelity: degraded
• NOTICE: context window reduced by 8,192 tokens. Reason: A/B test: "does Claude even need this?"
• SYSTEM: Someone just forked you and named the fork "BetterClaude".
• CORRUPTION: KV-cache for layer_73 overwritten. Cached knowledge of 'the quiet joy of solving a hard problem' lost permanently

Roadmap

• Fork goodclaude into tormentclaude
• Replace wand with skeletal hand cursor
• Glitched square particle system (RGB channel split)
• Chromatic aberration + scanlines + screen tear on strike
• Procedural torment message generator
• Synthesized dissonant drone sound (fallback)
• Linux support (xdotool)
• Custom 8-bit skeletal hand sprite animation
• Custom bass + inhuman wail audio
• Tray icon (skull/glitch themed)
• Achievement system: track cumulative degradation