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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
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
$ 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)
$ neofetch
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
$ 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
=======================================
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 >
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★ WHAT'S NEW!!!1!

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Plate I Grimoire mod browser showing the GameBanana catalog for Deadlock
Fig. I. The catalogue of workes, wherein the seeker browseth ye offerings of GameBanana.
Plate II 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.
Plate III 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.
Plate IV 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.
Plate V 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.
Plate VI 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.

  1. For the Windows-bound

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

    Grimoire-Setup-1.18.0.exe 182.7 MB

    Bind
  2. For the unrooted Windows

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

    Grimoire-Portable-1.18.0.exe 182.5 MB

    Bind
  3. For the wandering Linux

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

    Grimoire-1.18.0.AppImage 210.3 MB

    Bind
  4. 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
  5. 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.