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Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮
Community description: This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine ...
Dev.to | Oct 31, 2026 | Dhruv Jani
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GitSeance is an open-source AI code necromancer & forensics agent that scans legacy GitHub repos for dead files, predicts code mortality risk using TabPFN-3.5 tabular ML, channels the original author's spirit via Gemma 3 with ElevenLabs voice synthesis, and grounds modern revival patches via SerpApi. TabPFN-3.5: Bayesian Tabular Code Mortality Prediction Instead of writing simplistic rule-based heuristics, I leveraged Prior Labs' TabPFN-3.5 — the tabular foundation model built on Prior-Data Fitted Networks. Google Gemma: Spiritual Persona Channeling & Thought Token Parsing The Medium agent runs Google's Gemma open-weight model (gemma-4-26b-a4b-it) via the google-genai SDK. gemma-4-26b-a4b-it features internal chain-of-thought reasoning.
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