CaliLuke/mike

CaliLuke is rebranding Mike into Luke - a local-first, single-user AI workbench aimed squarely at running a job search.

Active and directional: 21 commits across five distinct threads in the few days since we first saw the fork, including a public pivot of the whole product's identity.

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This fork, run by CaliLuke, is no longer trying to be an open-source legal-AI app. It's being reframed as Luke: a local-first, single-user workbench for the very specific job of managing your own job hunt - resumes, cover letters, recruiter notes, interview prep, career-vault style material.

The direction is openly declared in the fork's own planning material, not inferred. CaliLuke is sketching out a migration away from the original multi-user, cloud-shaped product toward something that lives on one person's machine, with persistence experiments and a broader set of model providers (including local ones) being explored to support that.

Alongside the rebrand, CaliLuke is still landing small product polish in the existing legal-review surfaces and a handful of developer-environment changes for their own setup. If you're curious about how a generalist legal-AI codebase gets bent toward a single, personal use case, this one is worth a click through to GitHub.

What's in it

Rebrand to Luke, a personal job-search workbench The fork's stated identity is no longer a legal-AI app - it's a local-first, single-user tool for resumes, cover letters, recruiter notes, and interview prep.
Local-first direction CaliLuke has published a migration plan moving the product away from a cloud, multi-user shape toward something that runs for one person on their own machine.
Local model support via Ollama A third LLM provider has been wired in alongside the existing ones, with streaming and tool-call handling, so the app can talk to models running locally.
Plain-text and Markdown documents The document pipeline now handles text and Markdown files, not just the original formats - a natural fit for resumes, notes, and prep material.
Smoother tabular-review flow You can now spin up a brand-new project from inside the tabular-review modal instead of bouncing out to the projects page first.
Codex CLI wired to the author's Supabase Developer tooling has been pointed at CaliLuke's own Supabase project, a signal that this is being built and run as a personal deployment.

Direction

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Activity

Themed changes and pull requests touching this fork, newest first. Themed changes that haven't been turned into a public post yet still appear — they're real work even without a published writeup.

📝 CaliLuke rebrands the fork as Luke and rips out the cloud 1 commit 20d ago infrastructurebranding draft

What started as a Mike fork is now openly a different product: a single-user, local-first AI workbench for running a job search.

📝 Codex Supabase MCP configuration (no public page) 2 commits 21d ago not yet rewritten

📝 CaliLuke fixes a silent bug hiding shared projects 1 commit 21d ago multi-tenantworkflow draft

A small encoding mismatch was quietly making shared projects disappear from users' lists - and CaliLuke caught it.

📝 CaliLuke smooths out the tabular-review setup flow 3 commits 21d ago workflowchat-ui draft

Creating a new project no longer means bouncing out of the review modal and back again.

📝 CaliLuke wires Mike to run on a laptop 1 commit 21d ago infrastructureknowledge-management draft

First concrete step toward a local-first build of the legal-AI codebase: bring your own machine, skip the cloud.

Threads of work (detailed view)

4 threads have been distilled into posts.

CaliLuke rebrands the fork as Luke and rips out the cloud

What started as a Mike fork is now openly a different product: a single-user, local-first AI workbench for running a job search.

infrastructurebranding

1 commit · latest 20d ago

CaliLuke fixes a silent bug hiding shared projects

A small encoding mismatch was quietly making shared projects disappear from users' lists - and CaliLuke caught it.

multi-tenantworkflow

1 commit · latest 21d ago

CaliLuke smooths out the tabular-review setup flow

Creating a new project no longer means bouncing out of the review modal and back again.

workflowchat-ui

3 commits · latest 21d ago

CaliLuke wires Mike to run on a laptop

First concrete step toward a local-first build of the legal-AI codebase: bring your own machine, skip the cloud.

infrastructureknowledge-management

1 commit · latest 21d ago