Uncommit the Dead: a local tool that revives abandoned side projects with small next steps

A developer built Uncommit the Dead, a local app that lets users select a neglected Git repository and get suggestions from an open-weight AI model. The tool analyzes limited evidence such as the README, TODO lines, filenames, and recent commit messages to propose a small, time-boxed next step. Users can alternatively extract a reusable component or generate a farewell document acknowledging the unfinished work. The app runs on the user's own machine and sends repository context to Ollama rather than a hosted inference service. Setup requires Node 20.9+, Git, Ollama, and a model such as gemma3:4b, and the project was submitted to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge.