Xi Xu

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

Personal Agents are essentially a workforce of digital employees working 24/7 in the cloud.

In the AI era, human value shifts from execution to defining goals, making judgments, and taking responsibility for decisions. Agents handle the work. Humans set the direction.

This means the fundamental unit of software will shift from features to tasks, and human-computer interaction will evolve from synchronous operation to asynchronous collaboration. People shouldn't have to sit in front of a chat window. Agents should work continuously in the cloud, involving humans only when critical decisions are needed.

As the most accessible and always-with-you interface, the mobile app is the natural remote control for Personal Agents. Its job is no longer to host complex workflows, but to let people issue instructions, track progress, handle exceptions, and review outcomes.

The best apps of the future won't be the ones people open dozens of times a day. They'll be the ones people barely need to open at all.

Cloud is where work happens. Mobile is where decisions happen.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

所谓 Personal Agent，本质上就是一群在云端 24 小时干活的数字牛马。

AI 时代，人的核心价值不再是执行，而是定义��标、做出判断、承担决策。执行应该交给 Agent，人只需要掌握方��。

这意味着，软件的基本单位将从「功能」变成「任务」，人机交互也将从「同步操作」变成「异步协作」。人不必守着聊天窗口，Agent 应该在云端持续推进工作，只在关键节点请求人的判断。

而 Mobile App，作为离人最近、触达成本最低的终端，最适合成为 Personal Agent 的遥控器。它不需要承载复杂的操作，只需要让人随时下达指令、掌握进度、处理异常、验收结果。

未来最好的 App，不是让用户每天打开无数次，而是让用户越来越不需要打开。

Cloud is where work happens. Mobile is where decisions happen.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

补一个后续。

账号恢复以后，我把之前说的“不能再把所有东西只放在一个平台”真正做了起来。

现在，我的 GitHub 仓库会持续归档到自己托管的 Gitea：
https://t.co/KiPwxdyQgC

这次想留下来的，除了代码，还有 Issues、PRs、评论、Reviews、Releases 等记录。过去四年里，很多人帮忙发现问题、提出建议、贡献代码。那些讨论和协作，对我来说也是项目的一部分。

我也把这套服务整理成了一个开源项目：GitHub to Gitea Archive。
https://t.co/mWnzt3kBoX

它已经不再绑定我的账号，可以用于其他 GitHub 用户或组织。自动发现新仓库，通过 Webhook 和定期检查持续同步，不需要每次建完仓库再记得手动加一个镜像。使用只读 GitHub App，也不会向源仓库写回内容。

有些细节也想说清楚：无法完整映射到 Gitea 的 PR 信息会保留为原始数据；附件、Release 二进制和 LFS 对象目前保留链接、清单或指针，不下载文件本体。归档范围和部署方式都写在了 README 里。

之前看到评论里很多人提到备份，也有人分享自己搭 Gitea 的经历。谢谢这些提醒。这次总算把“以后一定备份”变成了一个会自己运行的东西。

我依然很喜欢 GitHub，也会继续在那里做开源。只是希望自己和一起参与项目的人留下的东西，能多一份由自己掌握的副本。

如果这套工具也能帮到其他人，就更好了。欢迎试用、提问题，也欢迎一起完善 ❤️

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

跟大家说明一下近况。

我的 GitHub 账号 @ xixu-me 从 8 月 22 日起被暂停，到今天已经 41 天，所有仓库都无法访问，我自己也无法登录维护。

我今年 6 月刚本科毕业、开始工作。大学四年里，我很大一部分业余时间都花在开源上。这个账号里的项目，基本都是从大一开始一个一个做起来的。

其中 Xget 后来有幸被很多人使用：
https://t.co/ZgWsk2SbYa
曾登上 GitHub Trending JavaScript 日榜第 3，目前大约 8.2k stars、1.3k forks。

做开源对我来说一直是一件很快乐的事。看到自己写的东西真的帮到了别人，会很有成就感，也正因为这样，我才愿意一直维护下去。

账号被暂停以后，经常有人问我的账号和项目为什么 404 了。

我其实也不知道���怎么回答。
代码不是我主动删除的，项目也没有停止维护的打算，只是现在连我自己都进不去了。
这次事情起因和 GitHub Education 的重新验证有关。我申请 Education 时确实还是本科在读；今年 6 月 30 日毕业以后，我当然也不要求继续享受学生权益。

我现在唯一希望的，就是恢复正常的 GitHub 账号，让这些项目能够继续维护。

恢复申诉工单已经提交 41 天，目前仍然没有收到人工回复。

后来查了一下，发现类似情况并不是只有我一个。2026 年 8 月 GitHub Community 上就有多位用户报告了 Education 重新验证后整个账号被暂停的情况：

https://t.co/2lkAiaFtlw
https://t.co/y63oesztAe
https://t.co/f8fd0jHZyE
https://t.co/7NlTb3lT6f

这些案例是否属于同一个原因，我无法判断，也不想在没有证据的情况下下结论。

我一直很感谢 GitHub 对开源生态的贡献，我大学四年的很多成长也确实发��在 GitHub 上。

但 41 天过去了，四年来积累的仓库、Issue、PR、Release 和社区关系全部无法访问，很多项目也因此无法继续维护。

实在不知道还能怎么办，所以只能在这里把情况说出来。

也很后悔以前没有给项目做完整的异地镜像，或者自己搭一个 Gitea。

Git 本身是分布式的，但我们的开源身份、社区和维护关系，其实远没有想象中那么“分布式”。

如果你正在使用我的项目：项目没有主动停更，也没有跑路。等账号恢复以后，我会继续维护。

如果这条能帮我传到 GitHub 相关团队那里，非常感谢。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

A small follow-up.

My GitHub account was restored on October 3. Thank you again to everyone who helped, shared the posts, or simply took the time to care.

When I wrote that I would never keep my open-source history in one place again, I wanted to actually follow through.

My repositories are now continuously archived to a Gitea instance I host myself:
https://t.co/KiPwxdyQgC

I wanted to preserve the issues, PRs, comments, reviews, and releases alongside the code. Over four years, people helped me find bugs, suggested better approaches, and contributed changes. Those conversations and contributions are part of the projects too.

I’ve also turned the service into an open-source project: GitHub to Gitea Archive.
https://t.co/mWnzt3kBoX

It can archive repositories owned by any GitHub user or organization. It automatically discovers new repositories and keeps syncing through webhooks and periodic checks, so I don’t have to remember to add another mirror every time I create a repo. It supports a read-only GitHub App and never writes back to the source repositories.

A few details matter: PR data that cannot be fully represented in Gitea is kept as raw data. Attachments, release binaries, and LFS objects currently retain links, manifests, or pointers rather than the file contents. The README explains the scope and how to deploy it.

Several people in the replies reminded me to back things up, and some shared their own Gitea setups. Thank you for those reminders. “I’ll back it up next time” has finally become something that runs on its own.

I still love GitHub and will keep building open source there. I just want an additional copy of the work and conversations we’ve built together, somewhere I control.

If this helps someone else do the same, that would make me happy. Feedback, issues, and contributions are very welcome ❤️

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

I spent all four years of university building open source on GitHub. I just graduated and started my first job.

41 days ago, @ xixu-me was suspended during an Education reverification.

Since then, every repo I built from freshman year onward has been inaccessible.

I love open source for a simple reason: when something I build helps someone else, it makes me genuinely happy.

Every repo on this account was built one by one, from freshman year to graduation: four years of nights, weekends, experiments, failures, and learning.

Some of those projects found a community I never expected.

Xget reached #3 on GitHub Trending for JavaScript and grew to ~8.2k stars / 1.3k forks.

Seeing strangers use, improve, and recommend something I made was one of the most rewarding parts of university.

Now I cannot access any of those repositories myself.

Long-time users keep messaging me on other platforms asking why my projects and account return 404.

I don’t have a good answer for them, and I can’t properly maintain or support the projects they rely on.

What hurts most is realizing how fragile this was.

I trusted one platform with four years of open-source work. I never kept a full mirror elsewhere or self-hosted a forge like Gitea.

I deeply regret that. Whatever happens, I won’t keep my open-source history in one place again.

The suspension happened around a GitHub Education reverification.

I applied while genuinely enrolled as an undergraduate. I graduated on June 30, 2026.

I am NOT asking to keep student benefits. I only want my normal GitHub account and open-source work restored.

I also want to be fair: GitHub has done an enormous amount for open source, and I’m grateful for the platform and community it enabled me to grow up in as a developer.

That is exactly why this has been so painful — and why I hope this process can be improved.

This is not an isolated story. In August, several users publicly reported a very similar sequence: GitHub Education reverification → full account suspension → unable to complete reverification → long waits for Support.

I’ll put those public GitHub Community cases in the replies.

I submitted reinstatement appeal #4687922 on Aug 22.

It has now been 41 days without a human response.

I understand Support can be overloaded. But after 41 days locked out of four years of open-source work, I genuinely don’t know what else to do.

So I’m posting this here.

@GitHub @GitHubEducation — I’m not asking for special treatment because a project has thousands of stars.

I’m asking for a human review of #4687922, and clarity on how Education reverification can become a full suspension.

If you can help this reach the right team, thank you.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@yosihiko37 请看英语帖。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

跟大家说明一下近况。

我的 GitHub 账号 @ xixu-me 从 8 月 22 日起被暂停，到今天已经 41 天，所有仓库都无法访问，我自己也无法登录维护。

我今年 6 月刚本科毕业、开始工作。大学四年里，我很大一部分业余时间都花在开源上。这个账号里的项目，基本都是从大一开始一个一个做起来的。

其中 Xget 后来有幸被很多人使用：
https://t.co/ZgWsk2SbYa
曾登上 GitHub Trending JavaScript 日榜第 3，目前大约 8.2k stars、1.3k forks。

做开源对我来说一直是一件很快乐的事。看到自己写的东西真的帮到了别人，会很有成就感，也正因为这样，我才愿意一直维护下去。

账号被暂停以后，经常有人问我��账号和项目为什么 404 了。

我其实也不知道该怎么回答。
代码不是我主动删除的，项目也没有停止维护的打算，只是现在连我自己都进不去了。
这次事情起因和 GitHub Education 的重新验证有关。我申请 Education 时确实还是本科在读；今年 6 月 30 日毕业以后，我当然也不要求继续享受学生权益。

我现在唯一希望的，就是恢复正常的 GitHub 账号，让这些项目能够继续维护。

恢复申诉工单已经提交 41 天，目前仍然没有收到人工回复。

后来查了一下，发现类似情况并不是只有我一个。2026 年 8 月 GitHub Community 上就有多位用户报告了 Education 重新验证后整个账号被暂停的情况：

https://t.co/2lkAiaFtlw
https://t.co/y63oesztAe
https://t.co/f8fd0jHZyE
https://t.co/7NlTb3lT6f

这些案例是否属于同一个原因，我无法判断，也不想在没有证据的情况下下结论。

我一直很感谢 GitHub 对开源生态的贡献，我大学四年的很多成长也确实发生在 GitHub 上。

但 41 天过去了，四年来积累的仓库、Issue、PR、Release 和社区关系全部无法访问，很多项目也因此无法继续维护。

实在不知道还能怎么办，所以只能在这里把情况说出来。

也很后悔以前没有给项目做完整的异地镜像，或者自己搭一个 Gitea。

Git 本身是分布式的，但我们的开源身份、社区和维护关系，其实远没有想象中那么“分布式”。

如果你正在使用我的项目：项目没有主动停更，也没有跑路。等账号恢复以后，我会继续维护。

如果这条能帮我传到 GitHub 相关团队那里，非常感谢。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

I spent all four years of university building open source on GitHub. I just graduated and started my first job.

41 days ago, @ xixu-me was suspended during an Education reverification.

Since then, every repo I built from freshman year onward has been inaccessible.

I love open source for a simple reason: when something I build helps someone else, it makes me genuinely happy.

Every repo on this account was built one by one, from freshman year to graduation: four years of nights, weekends, experiments, failures, and learning.

Some of those projects found a community I never expected.

Xget reached #3 on GitHub Trending for JavaScript and grew to ~8.2k stars / 1.3k forks.

Seeing strangers use, improve, and recommend something I made was one of the most rewarding parts of university.

Now I cannot access any of those repositories myself.

Long-time users keep messaging me on other platforms asking why my projects and account return 404.

I don’t have a good answer for them, and I can’t properly maintain or support the projects they rely on.

What hurts most is realizing how fragile this was.

I trusted one platform with four years of open-source work. I never kept a full mirror elsewhere or self-hosted a forge like Gitea.

I deeply regret that. Whatever happens, I won’t keep my open-source history in one place again.

The suspension happened around a GitHub Education reverification.

I applied while genuinely enrolled as an undergraduate. I graduated on June 30, 2026.

I am NOT asking to keep student benefits. I only want my normal GitHub account and open-source work restored.

I also want to be fair: GitHub has done an enormous amount for open source, and I’m grateful for the platform and community it enabled me to grow up in as a developer.

That is exactly why this has been so painful — and why I hope this process can be improved.

This is not an isolated story. In August, several users publicly reported a very similar sequence: GitHub Education reverification → full account suspension → unable to complete reverification → long waits for Support.

I’ll put those public GitHub Community cases in the replies.

I submitted reinstatement appeal #4687922 on Aug 22.

It has now been 41 days without a human response.

I understand Support can be overloaded. But after 41 days locked out of four years of open-source work, I genuinely don’t know what else to do.

So I’m posting this here.

@GitHub @GitHubEducation — I’m not asking for special treatment because a project has thousands of stars.

I’m asking for a human review of #4687922, and clarity on how Education reverification can become a full suspension.

If you can help this reach the right team, thank you.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@KandaoMaster @moraes_c_ 用 @Grok！

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

账号已经恢复了：

https://t.co/H7NMrcx6N1

衷心感谢大家的声援、转发和关心，也特别感谢 GitHub PM @moraes_c_ 的帮助。

没想到这件事会获得这么多关注，也再次让我感受到开源社区最珍贵的一点：很多素未谋面的人，真的会因为共同在意开源而愿意伸手帮忙。这也是我一直喜欢做开源的原因之一。

这次也算彻底长记性了，不能再把所有东西只放在一个平台。

所以有了这个：

https://t.co/KiPwxdyir4

再次感谢大家 ❤️

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

跟大家说明一下近况。

我的 GitHub 账号 @ xixu-me 从 8 月 22 日起被暂停，到今天已经 41 天，所有仓库都无法访问，我自己也无法登录维护。

我今年 6 月刚本科毕业、开始工作。大学四年里，我很大一部分业余时间都花在开源上。这个账号里的项目，基本都是从大一开始一个一个做起来的。

其中 Xget 后来有幸被很多人使用：
https://t.co/ZgWsk2SbYa
曾登上 GitHub Trending JavaScript 日榜第 3，目前大约 8.2k stars、1.3k forks。

做开源对我来说一直是一件很快乐的事。看到自己写的东西真的帮到了别人，会很有成就感，也正因为这样，我才愿意一直维护下去。

账号被暂停以后，经常有人问我的账号和项目为什么 404 了。

我其实也不知道���怎么回答。
代码不是我主动删除的，项目也没有停止维护的打算，只是现在连我自己都进不去了。
这次事情起因和 GitHub Education 的重新验证有关。我申请 Education 时确实还是本科在读；今年 6 月 30 日毕业以后，我当然也不要求继续享受学生权益。

我现在唯一希望的，就是恢复正常的 GitHub 账号，让这些项目能够继续维护。

恢复申诉工单已经提交 41 天，目前仍然没有收到人工回复。

后来查了一下，发现类似情况并不是只有我一个。2026 年 8 月 GitHub Community 上就有多位用户报告了 Education 重新验证后整个账号被暂停的情况：

https://t.co/2lkAiaFtlw
https://t.co/y63oesztAe
https://t.co/f8fd0jHZyE
https://t.co/7NlTb3lT6f

这些案例是否属于同一个原因，我无法判断，也不想在没有证据的情况下下结论。

我一直很感谢 GitHub 对开源生态的贡献，我大学四年的很多成长也确实发��在 GitHub 上。

但 41 天过去了，四年来积累的仓库、Issue、PR、Release 和社区关系全部无法访问，很多项目也因此无法继续维护。

实在不知道还能怎么办，所以只能在这里把情况说出来。

也很后悔以前没有给项目做完整的异地镜像，或者自己搭一个 Gitea。

Git 本身是分布式的，但我们的开源身份、社区和维护关系，其实远没有想象中那么“分布式”。

如果你正在使用我的项目：项目没有主动停更，也没有跑路。等账号恢复以后，我会继续维护。

如果这条能帮我传到 GitHub 相关团队那里，非常感谢。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@Hikolary 几分钟后就恢复账号了，可以试试：https://t.co/MMaGjxec3X

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@moraes_c_ PTAL 🙏
https://t.co/CVFmyuIxuu

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@LitoMore Yep!

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@Cy12u3 确实，比如 Zig。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@Yayoi_no_yume 好！

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

https://t.co/IVDfTZsJF4

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

账号已经恢复了：

https://t.co/H7NMrcx6N1

衷心感谢大家的声援、转发和关心，也特别感谢 GitHub PM @moraes_c_ 的帮助。

没想到这件事会获得这么多关注，也再次让我感受到开源社区最珍贵的一点：很多素未谋面的人，真的会因为共同在意开源而愿意伸手帮忙。这也是我一直喜欢做开源的原因之一。

这次也算彻底长记性了，不能再把所有东西只放在一个平台。

所以有了这个：

https://t.co/KiPwxdyir4

再次感谢大家 ❤️

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@ScarletKc @Yayoi_no_yume 😃

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@Yayoi_no_yume 是的，衷心感谢！

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@LitoMore 是的，账号已恢复；感谢你们开发和维护 https://t.co/kXNQV0uahX 和 https://t.co/gq80IWC003 🫡

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@moraes_c_ Thank you, Camilla. The account is restored and I can access the repos again. Really appreciate you flagging it.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

I spent all four years of university building open source on GitHub. I just graduated and started my first job.

41 days ago, @ xixu-me was suspended during an Education reverification.

Since then, every repo I built from freshman year onward has been inaccessible.

I love open source for a simple reason: when something I build helps someone else, it makes me genuinely happy.

Every repo on this account was built one by one, from freshman year to graduation: four years of nights, weekends, experiments, failures, and learning.

Some of those projects found a community I never expected.

Xget reached #3 on GitHub Trending for JavaScript and grew to ~8.2k stars / 1.3k forks.

Seeing strangers use, improve, and recommend something I made was one of the most rewarding parts of university.

Now I cannot access any of those repositories myself.

Long-time users keep messaging me on other platforms asking why my projects and account return 404.

I don’t have a good answer for them, and I can’t properly maintain or support the projects they rely on.

What hurts most is realizing how fragile this was.

I trusted one platform with four years of open-source work. I never kept a full mirror elsewhere or self-hosted a forge like Gitea.

I deeply regret that. Whatever happens, I won’t keep my open-source history in one place again.

The suspension happened around a GitHub Education reverification.

I applied while genuinely enrolled as an undergraduate. I graduated on June 30, 2026.

I am NOT asking to keep student benefits. I only want my normal GitHub account and open-source work restored.

I also want to be fair: GitHub has done an enormous amount for open source, and I’m grateful for the platform and community it enabled me to grow up in as a developer.

That is exactly why this has been so painful — and why I hope this process can be improved.

This is not an isolated story. In August, several users publicly reported a very similar sequence: GitHub Education reverification → full account suspension → unable to complete reverification → long waits for Support.

I’ll put those public GitHub Community cases in the replies.

I submitted reinstatement appeal #4687922 on Aug 22.

It has now been 41 days without a human response.

I understand Support can be overloaded. But after 41 days locked out of four years of open-source work, I genuinely don’t know what else to do.

So I’m posting this here.

@GitHub @GitHubEducation — I’m not asking for special treatment because a project has thousands of stars.

I’m asking for a human review of #4687922, and clarity on how Education reverification can become a full suspension.

If you can help this reach the right team, thank you.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@moraes_c_ PTAL 🙏
https://t.co/CVFmyuIxuu

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

I spent all four years of university building open source on GitHub. I just graduated and started my first job.

41 days ago, @ xixu-me was suspended during an Education reverification.

Since then, every repo I built from freshman year onward has been inaccessible.

I love open source for a simple reason: when something I build helps someone else, it makes me genuinely happy.

Every repo on this account was built one by one, from freshman year to graduation: four years of nights, weekends, experiments, failures, and learning.

Some of those projects found a community I never expected.

Xget reached #3 on GitHub Trending for JavaScript and grew to ~8.2k stars / 1.3k forks.

Seeing strangers use, improve, and recommend something I made was one of the most rewarding parts of university.

Now I cannot access any of those repositories myself.

Long-time users keep messaging me on other platforms asking why my projects and account return 404.

I don’t have a good answer for them, and I can’t properly maintain or support the projects they rely on.

What hurts most is realizing how fragile this was.

I trusted one platform with four years of open-source work. I never kept a full mirror elsewhere or self-hosted a forge like Gitea.

I deeply regret that. Whatever happens, I won’t keep my open-source history in one place again.

The suspension happened around a GitHub Education reverification.

I applied while genuinely enrolled as an undergraduate. I graduated on June 30, 2026.

I am NOT asking to keep student benefits. I only want my normal GitHub account and open-source work restored.

I also want to be fair: GitHub has done an enormous amount for open source, and I’m grateful for the platform and community it enabled me to grow up in as a developer.

That is exactly why this has been so painful — and why I hope this process can be improved.

This is not an isolated story. In August, several users publicly reported a very similar sequence: GitHub Education reverification → full account suspension → unable to complete reverification → long waits for Support.

I’ll put those public GitHub Community cases in the replies.

I submitted reinstatement appeal #4687922 on Aug 22.

It has now been 41 days without a human response.

I understand Support can be overloaded. But after 41 days locked out of four years of open-source work, I genuinely don’t know what else to do.

So I’m posting this here.

@GitHub @GitHubEducation — I’m not asking for special treatment because a project has thousands of stars.

I’m asking for a human review of #4687922, and clarity on how Education reverification can become a full suspension.

If you can help this reach the right team, thank you.

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@ratTohsaka 好巧，谢谢！

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@Hikolary 同感，同感。

[Xi Xu @xixu_me]

@w7wonder 说的对！