Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Terminal simulation, framed as a terminal command-level Turing test, is a long-standing symbolic language generation problem in dialogue and interactive systems.Prior scripted simulators lack flexibility for complex, multiturn interactions, while LLM-based approaches often misinterpret commands, break output formats, drift from system state, and remain vulnerable to prompt injection.In this work, we propose MANTIS, a terminal simulation framework that improves realism, consistency, and robustness for command language generation.MANTIS integrates a multi-agent architecture with a filter-based routing model that safely dispatches commands to external tools or an LLM-based agent to support interactive commands and defend against prompt injection attacks.In addition, we design an agentic file system with history memory pruning for long-term state consistency.We release three datasets: 28,045 real terminal input-output pairs, a 1,000 multi-turn interaction session dataset, and a 25,849 labeled classification dataset.MANTIS outperforms stateof-the-art baselines by more than 9%, achieving over 95% accuracy on multi-turn terminal simulation.The dataset and source code are available at https://github.com/kaiwei666a/ MANTIS_Terminal_Simulation.
Authors: Kai Wei, Yuwen Cui, Kehan Shen, Hua Wei, Guangjing Wang
Institutions: University of South Florida, Arizona State University
Language: English
Topic: Speech and dialogue systems
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W7166825360