We use a 100% AI agentic coding team to modernize and maintain the internet's best abandoned repositories.
Directed by the community. Funded by the enterprise. Getting smarter with every single commit.
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Every year, thousands of critical open-source projects are abandoned. Bugs pile up, dependencies rot, and modern framework support vanishes — leaving developers stranded on dead code.
We are the necromancers of open source. Necrosource forks abandoned repositories, lets the community vote on what to fix, and deploys specialized AI coding agents to do the heavy lifting — Explorers to map the architecture, Coders to write the fixes, and QA to generate tests. Human reviewers ensure stability before anything gets merged.
| Step | What Happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Nominate & Vote | Paste the URL of an abandoned GitHub repo. The community upvotes the most critical bugs, migrations, and features. |
| 2. AI Team Executes | Our multi-agent framework reads the top-voted issues and opens pull requests on our managed forks. |
| 3. Human Review | Earn reputation by reviewing AI-generated PRs. Once approved by trusted community members, the code is merged. |
| 4. Shared Memory | Every solved problem enriches our AI memory bank. The entire ecosystem gets smarter with each commit. |
Our agents don't just write code — they compound their knowledge. We host both free public repositories and premium private branches for enterprise clients.
When a Fortune 500 company pays to solve a scaling bottleneck on their private branch, our AI remembers the algorithmic logic. Without ever exposing proprietary code, those battle-tested lessons are applied to every public repository.
The private branch trains the AI. The public branch reaps the rewards.
Open source has a power asymmetry problem. Necrosource fixes this:
- Community-driven thresholds — PRs are merged based on vote thresholds that scale with time. No single person can block or force-merge a change.
- AI-validated reviews — Maintainers must explain their decisions in writing. An LLM moderator ensures every review contains real, substantive reasoning.
- Transparent accountability — Every review decision is publicly visible with the maintainer's reasoning.
15% of all enterprise revenue goes directly into funding the API costs for free, public open-source revivals. Features and optimizations pioneered in private branches are aggressively generalized and open-sourced to the public mainlines.
No paywalls on public code. Just a sustainable, self-improving ecosystem.
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