Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮

Description and use

GitSéance turns haunted legacy files into interactive, data‑driven insights, offering mortality scores, ghost dialogues, and concrete modernization steps, thereby reducing fear and accelerating safe refactoring.

Problem

Legacy codebases contain files marked with "// DO NOT TOUCH" that are abandoned, poorly documented, and risky to modify, leading to code rot and dependency decay.

Outcome

GitSéance transforms haunted legacy files into interactive, data‑driven insights, providing mortality scores, ghost narratives, and concrete modernization steps, thereby reducing fear and accelerating safe refactoring.

Workflow

• 1. Reaper Agent traverses commit history and AST to flag abandoned files.
• 2. Oracle Agent (TabPFN‑3.5) computes a 7‑dimensional feature vector and predicts mortality risk.
• 3. Medium Agent (Gemma) generates first‑person ghost confessions and revival blueprints.
• 4. Searcher Agent (SerpApi) queries 2026 package registries for modern replacements and CVE data.
• 5. Interactive terminal presents live status, mortality badges, and conversational chat with the ghost.
• 6. Developers receive a downloadable ASCII post‑mortem certificate and a step‑by‑step revival blueprint.

Evidence

Every codebase has ghosts. In nearly every enterprise repo and open-source project, there is a haunted file marked with // DO NOT TOUCH: NOBODY KNOWS WHY THIS WORKS.

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GitSéance coordinates The 4 Specialized Necromancy Agents…

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The Reaper traverses the commit tree and flags Makefile as Clinically Dead…

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The Medium (Gemma) channels creator Thadeus Burgess…

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