I held a séance for my abandoned repos

Description and use

git séance lets developers audit and converse with abandoned repos, offering transparent evidence and resurrection options.

Problem

Developers often leave side projects inactive, leaving incomplete commits, uncommitted work, and unclear reasons for abandonment.

Outcome

git séance provides a transparent, local‑only tool to audit abandoned repos, generate a narrative with evidence, and offer resurrection or obituary options, all without external services.

Workflow

• Scan target folder for repos inactive >14 days
• Extract commit history, uncommitted files, TODOs, README
• Generate tombstone metadata (birth, death, last words, cause, successor)
• Present tombstone UI with EKG, record, autopsy, séance
• Stream conversation using local Gemma 3 4B via Ollama
• Provide resurrection or lay to rest options
• Validate citations against extracted evidence
• Flag phantom or loose citations

Evidence

git séance walks a folder of your repos and lays them out as tombstones.

Source

The ghost is not allowed to make anything up.

Source

Python runs git log, git status, git stash list and git branch --no-merged

Source