Project Phoenix: The Agentic Greenfield Pipeline for Legacy Modernization
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