Project Phoenix: The Agentic Greenfield Pipeline for Legacy Modernization

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Authors: Michael Shatny
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Abstract

Project Phoenix is a seven-agent agentic pipeline that transforms legacy systems into modern, greenfield applications. Instead of translating old code line-by-line, Phoenix extracts the business logic -- the rules, workflows, and intent buried inside decades of legacy code -- and rebuilds from zero. The core thesis: the code is not the asset, the business rules are the asset. Agents communicate through EMBER .sil artifact files. Reference implementation available as @semanticintent/phoenix-runtime on npm.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Software Engineering Research Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 March 2026
Language
EN