About Developer Kits
How Developer Kits creates independent implementations of useful npm capabilities without reusing abandoned source code.
What this experiment tests
Developer Kits explores whether AI assistance can create useful npm capabilities when earlier tools are no longer maintained. Each package starts from zero and receives its own implementation, tests and release.
What AI contributes
AI helps define behavior, write a new implementation, generate tests, draft migration notes and expose edge cases. It accelerates the work, but the public package and its maintainer remain accountable for the result.
What independent implementation means
Abandoned package source is not copied or continued. The current package has new source code and its own tests, license, versions and publication history. Browser demos make the current behavior inspectable.
How a capability is defined
Work begins with a useful developer need, public standards where they exist, ecosystem conventions and newly written examples. Those inputs become a fresh behavioral specification and test suite. Retained predecessor source and remembered package names are not used as requirements.
Historical limitation
The identities of earlier packages were not retained. This site therefore documents current independent implementations, not one-to-one lineage or exact compatibility with a named predecessor. That gap is stated rather than reconstructed from memory.
How the zero-source constraint is reported
The maintainer declares that abandoned source is not consulted or copied during implementation. Public repositories, tests, CI and releases document the resulting work; they cannot independently prove a negative historical claim, so the site labels this as a project constraint rather than external certification.
Human accountability
A human maintainer decides what is released, reviews generated changes and remains responsible for defects. When behavior is uncertain, the uncertainty should be documented rather than hidden behind confident copy.
How package information is verified
Package metadata comes from one build catalog. Activity snapshots are collected from npm and GitHub and display their collection date. Every package page links to its current repository, tests, CI and npm release or publication status. Historical predecessor mappings are unavailable.
Corrections and support
Follow Recoveredd on GitHub, browse the npm packages, or open a reproducible issue in the linked repository when a demo or diagnostic is inaccurate. Optional support is available through Ko-fi.