Grimoire: terminal

grimoire@codex 5.2 (bash-incantations 5.2)
Last login: tonight, by candlelight
Type 'less /usr/share/doc/grimoire/README' for the manual.

$ ls -lh ./dist/v1.18.0/

total 5

-rw-r--r-- 1 ci ci 182.7M Grimoire-Setup-1.18.0.exe

-rw-r--r-- 1 ci ci 182.5M Grimoire-Portable-1.18.0.exe

-rw-r--r-- 1 ci ci 210.3M Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage

-rw-r--r-- 1 ci ci 173.0M grimoire_1.18.0_amd64.deb

-rw-r--r-- 1 ci ci 1.2K SHA256SUMS

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$ open https://github.com/Slush97/grimoire/releases/tag/v1.18.0

$ man grimoire

GRIMOIRE(1)                      User Commands                      GRIMOIRE(1)

NAME
       grimoire - mod manager for Deadlock

SYNOPSIS
       grimoire

DESCRIPTION
       Browse and install mods from GameBanana, manage your local mod
       library, swap full profiles in a click, and pin per-hero skin
       variants.

       Offline-first. Two-process desktop app. The renderer never sees
       your session token. No telemetry, no analytics, no accounts.

FEATURES
       browse     local GameBanana mirror, sub-ms search
       library    toggle, reorder, conflict detection at the VPK layer
       locker     one active skin per hero, switch in one click
       profiles   loadouts as short mp1: codes or .modprofile.json files

INSTALL
       Full download index, every platform and checksum:
         grimoiremods.com/download

       Windows (recommended):
         Grimoire-Setup-1.18.0.exe
         (182.7 MiB, signed by GitHub Actions build attestation)

       Windows (portable, no install):
         Grimoire-Portable-1.18.0.exe

       Arch / Manjaro:
         $ yay -S grimoire-bin

       Debian / Ubuntu (apt, auto-updates):
         $ # one-time repo setup at grimoiremods.com/download
         $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install grimoire

       Debian / Ubuntu (.deb, manual):
         grimoire_1.18.0_amd64.deb
         $ sudo apt install ./grimoire_1.18.0_amd64.deb

       AppImage (universal):
         Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage
         $ chmod +x Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage && ./Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage

       From source:
         $ git clone https://github.com/Slush97/grimoire
         $ cd grimoire && pnpm install && pnpm dev

VERIFY
       $ sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
       $ gh attestation verify <file> --owner Slush97

VERSION
       v1.18.0 released June 13, 2026

LICENSE
       MIT

AUTHOR
       slusheliott@gmail.com  <GitHub: Slush97>

SEE ALSO
       deadlock(6), gamebanana(7), vpk(5)

GRIMOIRE                        MMXXVI                         GRIMOIRE(1)

$ grimoire screenshots --list
browse.png     installed.png  locker.png
profiles.png   conflicts.png  variants.png
$ feh ./screenshots/*.png
# hover a frame: render in 24-bit color. click: open full size.

feh: browse.png [1/6] 1442x856

Grimoire browse tab: the GameBanana mod browser with search and mod cards

# the GameBanana mod browser feh: installed.png [2/6] 1442x856

Grimoire installed tab: local mod library with per-mod on and off toggles

# mod library, per-mod on/off toggles feh: locker.png [3/6] 1442x856

Grimoire Hero Locker: per-hero skin picker, one active skin per hero

# Hero Locker, per-hero skin picker feh: profiles.png [4/6] 1442x856

Grimoire profiles tab: saved mod loadouts ready to swap

# saved mod loadouts feh: conflicts.png [5/6] 1280x800

Grimoire conflict warnings: overlapping files detected at the VPK layer

# VPK conflict warnings feh: variants.png [6/6] 1280x800

Grimoire variant picker: choosing between the variants a mod ships

# mod variant picker

$ neofetch

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grimoire@codex

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ENGINEchaos.magick 6.6.6-arch1-1

BOUND ONWindows · Linux · Arch

UPTIMEsince the autumn equinox

SHELLbash-incantations 5.2

FONTIM Fell English (irregular)

TELEMETRY∅ no signals leave this terminal

LICENSEMIT · blessed mmxxvi

SOURCEgithub.com/Slush97/grimoire

$ radio --tui --autostart
# somafm.com streams : listener-supported, commercial-free
# kill switch: STOP here, or ♪ on the remote

RADIO(1) icecast tuner

DEF CON

stopped.

$ grimoire
[ launching grimoire... press CTRL+C to abort ]

$ _

Grimoire for Windows

README.TXT - Notepad

FileEditSearchHelp

=======================================
GRIMOIRE v1.18.0 README
=======================================

A MOD MANAGER FOR DEADLOCK.

REQUIREMENTS:
  WINDOWS 95 OR LATER
  16 MB RAM (32 MB RECOMMENDED)
  DEADLOCK INSTALLED VIA STEAM

FEATURES:
  - BROWSE THE GAMEBANANA CATALOG
  - MANAGE YOUR MOD LIBRARY
  - HERO LOCKER
  - PROFILES

INSTALL:
  DOUBLE-CLICK SETUP.EXE
  OR RUN A:\\GRIMOIRE\\SETUP.EXE FROM
  THE COMMAND LINE.

LICENSE: MIT
NO TELEMETRY. NO ANALYTICS.

SOURCE: GITHUB.COM/SLUSH97/GRIMOIRE

Grimoire Setup

Welcome to Grimoire Setup

This program will install Grimoire v1.18.0 on your computer.

It is strongly recommended that you exit Deadlock before running this Setup program.

Click Next to continue, or Cancel to exit Setup.

Next >

Exploring - C:\GRIMOIRE\PICTURES

FileEditViewHelp

6 object(s) 3.31MB (Disk free space: 31.8MB)

Internet Radio

StationOptionsHelp

KOHINA

Ready

✦ WELCOME TO GRIMOIRE'S HOMEPAGE!!1! ✦ BEST VIEWED IN NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 4.0 BY MOONLIGHT ✦ NEW SIGILS!!! ✦ SIGN THE BOOK OF NAMES!!! ✦ ✦ WELCOME TO GRIMOIRE'S HOMEPAGE!!1! ✦ BEST VIEWED IN NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 4.0 BY MOONLIGHT ✦ NEW SIGILS!!! ✦ SIGN THE BOOK OF NAMES!!! ✦

GRIMOIRE ✦ a homepage for the modding arts ✦

A GRIMOIRE FOR DEADLOCK!!! invoked with ♥ by slush!

YOU ARE VISITOR

001337

souls beheld since 1996

★ WHAT'S NEW!!!1! ★

GB ★ GameBanana mods!!! Look at all these mods you can get!!! New ones every day!!! One click and they INSTALL THEMSELVES!!!
LIB ★ Library Manager!! Click click click! Turn mods ON and OFF! Organize them! NO MORE CRASHES when two mods fight!!!
HL ★ Hero Locker!!1! Pick which skin you wanna wear on each hero! It is like a CLOSET but for VIDEO GAMES!!
mp1 ★ Profiles!!! Save all your mods together and switch back and forth!!! Trade them with your friends like POG CARDS!

★ SCREENSHOTS OF MY PROGRAM!!! ★

»» 100% ACTUAL FOOTAGE!! NOT STAGED!! click 2 EMBIGGEN!! ««

CLICK HERE TO GET GRIMOIRE!!!

IT IS FREE!!! NO TELEMETRY!! NO ADWARE!!!

VERSION 1.18.0 ★ June 13, 2026

★ NOW FEATURING!!! ★

»» CHECK OUT DA REST OF MY SHRINE!!1! ««

✦

★ THE DARK CODEX WEBRING ★

CERTIFIED OPEN SOURCE!!1! fork it!!! ship it!!! claim it as your own dark gospel!!! (but maybe leave the copyright notice in there)

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NETSCAPE NOW!
BEST VIEWED IN HELLFIRE
1024x768 OR BUST
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ARCH BTW
NO COOKIES!!

Sign the BOOK OF NAMES!!! E-MAIL ME!!

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This page was hand-coded in NOTEPAD!! NO FRONTPAGE!! NO DREAMWEAVER!! All HTML 3.2 baby!!1!

"No telemetry. No login. No subscription. The mods are yours."
~ the README

★ © 1996-MMXXVI SLUSH ★ THIS PAGE WAS LAST UPDATED IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD MMXXVI ★ NO TELEMETRY EVER!!! ★ ★ © 1996-MMXXVI SLUSH ★ THIS PAGE WAS LAST UPDATED IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD MMXXVI ★ NO TELEMETRY EVER!!! ★

Welcome to Grimoire

Discover Grimoire.

Beautifully designed for the modder who loves the details. Made for everyone else too.

Get Grimoire

Free download. Windows and Linux. The experience is reimagined.

See all downloads and checksums ›

An experience reimagined

Every detail, considered.

Built around the way you already think about your mods. Just a little bit better. A little more delightful.

GameBanana, in your pocket

Mods at your fingertips, beautifully organized. One click pulls the file and the icon and the manifest. No folder spelunking. Ever.

Your library, your way

Toggle, reorder, prioritize. Designed for the modder who loves the details, made for everyone else too.

Skins that shine

Every variant you have, ready to wear. Switch in a single click. Yamato has never looked better.

Profiles, made simple

Save your favorite setups. Share them with a single code. Restore in seconds, like nothing happened.

Seeing is believing

The wow, in pictures.

Real screens from the real app. No mockups, no promises. Click any frame to see it at full size.

The catalog, gorgeous. All of GameBanana, browsable in one beautiful window. Find it, click it, it is yours.
Your library, switched on. Every installed mod with its own toggle. On, off, instantly.
Introducing the Hero Locker. A skin picker for every hero. Choose once, shine all match.
Loadouts, saved forever. Whole setups, saved as profiles. Swap them in seconds.
Conflicts, caught early. VPK collisions surfaced before they ever spoil a match.
Every variant, on display. When a mod comes in flavors, pick yours with a single click.

At a glance

Your modding day, organized.

Now playing Lane 4 Match in progress · Yamato (Crimson)

Active mods 17 No conflicts detected

GameBanana +34 New mods this week

Loadouts 8 Saved profiles, ready to swap

Radio Groove Salad Ambient, on tap. Press play.

Pick your OS

Beautifully simple.
Surprisingly powerful.

Available now. Free for everyone.

Get Grimoire See all downloads and checksums ›

New Grimoire v1.18.0 is here. See what shipped

The platform for
modern modding.

Mod orchestration, library management, and profile distribution in one place. Built for the teams who ship the mods that ship the games.

Get started for free Talk to sales

Browse all downloads and checksums →

12,000+ developers · 47,000 mods deployed · MIT licensed

APERTURE SCIENCE
Weyland-Yutani
UMBRELLA CORP
OmniCorp
CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS
Tyrell | Initech | Hooli
VAULT-TEC

Platform

Everything you need to ship mods at scale.

From discovery to distribution, Grimoire is the system of record for every artifact your team ships.

Mod orchestration

Single-pane catalog indexed against the entire GameBanana ecosystem. Sub-millisecond queries, infinite filters, zero infrastructure.

Library management

Detect conflicts before they hit production. Granular toggle controls, full audit trail, per-mod priority routing at the VPK layer.

Asset locker

Per-character variant pinning with zero-downtime swaps. Version every skin you ship. Roll forward, roll back, never overwrite.

Profile distribution

Share full configurations as short signed codes or JSON manifests. Stateless, replay-safe, designed for the wire.

Product

See the platform in production.

A guided tour of the surfaces where modern mod operations happen. Captured live, from real workloads, with no staging-environment trickery whatsoever.

Grimoire mod browser showing a searchable grid of GameBanana mods

01

Frictionless mod discovery at planetary scale.

The entire GameBanana catalog, indexed into a single procurement surface. Evaluate, shortlist, and acquire assets without opening a browser tab like some kind of individual contributor.

Grimoire installed-mods library with per-mod enable and disable toggles

02

Your mod estate, under management.

Every installed mod with one toggle between enabled and disabled. We call this bidirectional state governance. It is a checkbox.

Grimoire Hero Locker showing a per-hero skin picker with previews

03

A single pane of glass for your hero cosmetics estate.

Per-hero skin selection with visual previews. Pin a variant to a hero and it stays pinned: the kind of durability guarantee our customers tell us they can no longer live without.

Grimoire conflict warnings listing mods that modify the same VPK files

04

Shift-left conflict remediation.

When two mods write to the same VPK surface, Grimoire flags the collision before it ever reaches your runtime. Mean time to detection: before you press the button.

Grimoire profiles screen with saved mod loadouts

05

Loadouts as a strategic asset.

Snapshot entire mod configurations as named profiles and move between them with zero downtime. Ranked-night compliance posture, achieved in one click.

Grimoire GameBanana collection import dialog listing mods to install in bulk

06

Bulk ingestion for the high-velocity organization.

Import a full GameBanana collection in a single operation. What your analysts call a download queue, we call a throughput-optimized acquisition pipeline.

Pricing

Pricing that scales with your team.

Start free. Upgrade when your team needs SSO, audit logs, or a dedicated solutions engineer.

Hobbyist

For the solo modder building something nobody asked for.

$0 /month

Get started

Unlimited mods, locally indexed
Full library management
Hero Locker variant control
Community support via Discord
MIT licensed source code

Team

For growing studios that need governance.

$99 /seat/month

Start free trial

Everything in Hobbyist
SSO via SAML 2.0
Audit logs · 90-day retention
Profile sharing with role-based access
Priority support · 24h SLA

Enterprise

For organizations with compliance requirements.

Custom

Contact sales

Everything in Team
SOC 2 Type II attestation
Custom SLA · 99.99% uptime
Dedicated solutions engineer
On-prem deployment available
Procurement onboarding

Security

Enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Grimoire is built on the same primitives trusted by global teams. We invest in third-party audits so you do not have to.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001 Certified
GDPR Compliant
HIPAA Ready
FedRAMP Authorized
CCPA Compliant

Grimoire FM Deep-work radio, zero meetings. Paused. Focus metrics at risk.

Start orchestrating modern mod operations.

No credit card required. Forever free for solo modders.

Get started for free Contact sales

Liber Grimoire · vol i · mmxxvi

Bound by candlelight.
Read by the seeker.

Underneath every costume is the same tool: a small, offline-first mod manager for Deadlock. No telemetry. No accounts. No upsell. Just the catalog, your library, and a profile you can carry on a sigil.

Bind to your PC View on GitHub

Windows + Linux · MIT · bound mmxxvi by the Order of Slush

What it does

All four rites,
in one cursed window.

The features have not changed. Only the language has. Underneath the SaaS, the optimism, the chrome, and the starfield: these four bindings.

fol. v · recto

Browse the catalog by candlelight

The full GameBanana library, transcribed and indexed locally. Sub-millisecond divination through the catalog. One-click rites via gb1click://, no folder spelunking.

fol. v · verso

Bind, unbind, reorder

Your library, ordered. Conflicts between two VPK paths revealed before the round begins. Toggle a binding off without losing it from disk.

fol. vi · recto

Every variant, ready to wear

One active skin per hero, picked from every variant you have ever bound. The rest stay on disk. Switch in a single click; the closet remembers.

fol. vi · verso

Profiles as sigils

Full mod loadouts saved as short mp1: codes. Trade like talismans. Restore like spells. Or as .modprofile.json if a link feels too sketchy.

The plates

Engravings taken
from the living instrument.

Six impressions, pressed between these pages so the seeker need not bind sight unseen. Lay the cursor upon any plate and behold it in living colour; press it to summon the full folio.

Grimoire mod browser showing the GameBanana catalog for Deadlock — Fig. I. The catalogue of workes, wherein the seeker browseth ye offerings of GameBanana.

The installed mods library with per-mod on and off toggles — Fig. II. The library of bindings, each worke toggled on or off and never struck from ye disk.

The Hero Locker, a per-hero skin picker — Fig. III. The Hero Locker, wherein one skin per hero is chosen from all the seeker hath bound.

The mod variant picker listing the variants a mod ships with — Fig. IV. The chooser of variants, that a worke may wear whichever of its faces pleaseth.

VPK conflict warnings between two installed mods — Fig. V. The augury of conflicts, whereby two bindings that contend for one VPK path are revealed before the round.

Saved mod loadout profiles in Grimoire — Fig. VI. Profiles of the loadout, saved whole and carried betwixt machines as sigils.

The engravings are sepia by the limits of the press, not of the instrument. The instrument itself runs in full colour.

Rites of binding

Five ways to bind it
to your machine.

Same volume, five bindings. Choose the rite your system already observes. The provenance of each is verifiable by checksum.

For the Windows-bound

The installer rite. Double-click to invoke; Setup will lead.

Grimoire-Setup-1.18.0.exe 182.7 MB

Bind
For the unrooted Windows

A single binding. No registry incision, no shortcut planted.

Grimoire-Portable-1.18.0.exe 182.5 MB

Bind
For the wandering Linux

A universal AppImage. Mark executable and run; needs no host.

Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage 210.3 MB

Bind
For the Debian-bound

Pass to apt to weave into the system, as is proper.

grimoire_1.18.0_amd64.deb 173.0 MB

Bind
For the disciples of Arch

Conjured from the AUR: `yay -S grimoire-bin`.

Invoke

Every rite ships a SHA256SUMS file and a GitHub build attestation. Verify before you bind. See /download for the full provenance.

The wireless

Voices, drawn
from the aether.

Three frequencies of dark ambience, broadcast freely and kept alive by listeners. The séance begins of its own accord; bid it cease, and it obeys.

The aether is silent.

Bound by the Order of Slush · mmxxvi

Composed in the small hours on a single laptop. Set in IM Fell English for the body, with Comic Neue for the louder spells two stages up. No telemetry was harmed in the making of this page. The candle is real. The mods are also real.

github gamebanana/22583 discord /download