Uncommit the Dead: my unfinished side projects want one last commit
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built “I’ll finish it this weekend” sounds harmless until you find it attached to an old commit, sitting beneath a feature you still remember explaining enthusiastically to somebody who has probably forgotten the conversation. I wanted to give that particular kind of unfinished business…
The Uncommit the Dead project offers a way to give unfinished code projects a final resting place within an abandoned repository, while still extracting useful ideas. The tool works by analyzing a local Git repository and querying an open-weight model to suggest a concise next step. Rather than debating whether to fully rebuild the project, the model provides a smaller, manageable change that can still advance the unfinished work.
After receiving suggestions, the user can decide if the proposed plan aligns with their goals for the project. The application can run locally without requiring an online inference service, using the Ollama open-source AI platform. Users install Ollama and an open-weight model, then the Uncommit the Dead app reads the repository and sends the relevant context to the model for generation.
The tool is designed specifically for personal machines, not for public hosting, and includes safeguards against accessing sensitive or secret files. The project is available on GitHub, and the demo can be accessed at uncommit-the-dead.vercel.app.
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