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The repo was transferred 42piratas/hamlet4242labs/hamlet before this PR; the old URL redirects and all 18 deployments came across. This is the content half.

Status

Added the repostatus.org inactive badge and a [!NOTE] saying it outright: built in 2016, not being developed, kept online on purpose as an artifact of pre-LLM information retrieval. Issues and PRs may sit indefinitely.

inactive rather than unsupported — the latter signals the author wants a new maintainer, which isn't the case here. inactive is "stable and usable, no longer actively developed", which is exactly it. The recent commits in the log are fleet-wide sweeps (favicon, LGTM gate, OG tags), not project maintenance, so an "active" badge would have been false.

Trimmed

  • UI section — speech bubbles, avatars, the Hark! modal. Not why anyone opens this repo.
  • Deploy section — documented vercel --prod as a release step for a project that isn't being released.

Added

A License section. The repo has shipped an MIT LICENSE since 2016 and the README never mentioned it.

Also fixed, outside the diff

The repo's About pointed at hamlet-nltk.vercel.app while the README pointed at hamlet.42labs.io. Both serve, but the 42labs domain is the canonical one — About now matches. Description and topics refreshed too.

The repo now lives at 4242labs/hamlet. Add the repostatus.org "inactive" badge
and say plainly what the state is: built in 2016, not being developed, kept
online on purpose as an artifact of pre-LLM information retrieval. A visitor
should learn that before they file anything.

Drop the UI section — speech bubbles and a welcome modal are not why anyone
opens this repo — and the Deploy section, which documented a release step for a
project that is not being released. What's left is the quote, the status, the
retrieval pipeline, how to run it, and the licence, which the README never
mentioned despite the MIT LICENSE file sitting beside it.
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