automud 0.1.1

Persistent telnet/MUD session manager you drive by hand or with an agent. No LLM, no API key.

AutoMUD

A persistent telnet/MUD session you drive with small, discrete commands. There is no language model and no API key inside it: the intelligence is whoever runs it, a person, a script, or an autonomous agent. It exists because a raw telnet session is interactive and blocking, so it cannot be held open across separate shell commands. AutoMUD keeps the connection alive in a small background daemon and exposes simple verbs against it.

Install

pipx install git+https://github.com/CharlesCNorton/automud

Or from a clone:

pip install .

Standard library only, Python 3.8+.

Use

automud connect --demo achaea      # or: automud connect <host> <port>
automud send 2                      # send a line, print the reply
automud send Maelvorn
automud recv                         # drain any new output
automud state                        # structured game state (GMCP) as JSON
automud status
automud close

verb	what it does
connect HOST PORT / --demo NAME	open a session and start the daemon
send TEXT	send one line, print what comes back
recv	print any new output
state [--key PKG]	captured GMCP state as JSON (e.g. --key Char.Vitals)
status	connection and vitals summary
log [--tail N]	full session transcript
close	end the session and stop the daemon

Built-in demo targets: achaea, zork (telehack.com), chess (freechess.org).

Behaviour

• Smart waiting. send and recv return as soon as the server stops talking, either a telnet GA/EOR prompt marker or output going quiet, so you never guess a sleep duration. --max caps the wait and --quiet sets the idle threshold.
• GMCP. It negotiates GMCP and parses the structured state modern MUDs push (health, room, exits, skills) into JSON for state. Options it does not implement (compression, MSDP, MXP) are refused rather than mishandled.
• One session at a time, held by a background daemon; a new connect replaces it. Session state and the transcript live under a temp directory (override with AUTOMUD_DIR).

License

MIT. See LICENSE.