NecroGit: I built an AI necromancer to resurrect dead open-source repositories

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

Over 40 million open-source repositories on GitHub lie dead in the digital graveyard—abandoned by creators, killed by bitrot, and haunted by deprecated APIs and unpatched CVEs.

In the spirit of Día de los Muertos and Halloween, NecroGit honors open-source history by summoning the ghosts of dead codebases and resurrecting them into modern, hardened software.

Point NecroGit at an abandoned repository (e.g., dead Python 2 tools from 2012). It:

Who gets to benefit: Any developer inheriting legacy technical debt, or anyone who hates watching brilliant open-source software die.

Runs 100% local (privacy-first: vintage internal codebases never leave your machine):