A cleanup commit on the dispumike fork quietly lands the circuit breaker the rest of the codebase has been pretending existed.
Gadoes/dispumike
A legal-research fork wiring Mike into a broad mix of jurisdictional case-law databases, with citations you can actually trust.
Gadoes is turning Mike into a multi-jurisdictional legal research assistant. The throughline of the work so far is sources: connecting the chat to a growing set of authoritative legal databases - US federal and state caselaw, EU law, Pakistani statutes, international arbitration archives - and letting the user pick which ones a given question should draw on.
Alongside the source work, Gadoes is investing in the parts that make answers checkable. Citations returned by the assistant get rendered as their own surface in the UI, can be re-fetched against the original source and marked verified or unverified, and the underlying calls are cached, logged, and visible through an admin dashboard. For jurisdictions without an off-the-shelf connector, there's a self-hosted scraping path so coverage isn't capped by what third parties expose.
There's no rebrand and no public signal about who Gadoes is beyond the handle. The product direction is clear, though: a serious research tool for lawyers who want the assistant to cite real sources, across borders, and prove it.
What's in it
- Multi-jurisdiction legal source connectors Plug-in adapters for US (CourtListener, GovInfo), EU (EUR-Lex), and Pakistani (Al-Meezan) legal databases, with a self-hosted scraping path for jurisdictions that don't have a ready-made connector - including italaw and ICSID for international arbitration.
- Source picker and per-query scope Users manage which legal sources are connected and toggle which ones any given question is allowed to consult, so research stays scoped to the right jurisdictions.
- Citations as first-class output When the assistant cites a source, the citation is rendered as a structured card rather than buried in prose, with state for whether the underlying source is still reachable.
- Citation verification loop Citations can be re-fetched against their original source and explicitly marked verified or unverified, closing the loop between what the assistant said and what the source actually says.
- Source-call caching Equivalent legal-source lookups are deduplicated and cached, so repeated research over the same material is faster and cheaper.
- Telemetry and admin dashboard Every call out to a legal source is logged and surfaced in an admin view, giving operators visibility into what's being queried, how often, and with what success.
- Resilience plumbing A circuit-breaker and reconnect layer sits in front of the source connectors, so a flaky external database degrades gracefully rather than taking the assistant down with it.
Direction
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Activity
The dispumike fork adds a one-click way to re-check whether a cited source actually says what the AI claimed it said.
When the AI reaches out to external sources, every call now gets logged - and there's an admin page to see it all.
📝 Gadoes bolts a cache onto Mike's outside-data calls 2 commits 24d ago infrastructureintegration draft
A small caching layer means repeat lookups to external sources stop costing time and rate-limit headroom.
📝 Gadoes builds a scraper framework for jurisdictions the APIs forgot 6 commits 24d ago integrationknowledge-management draft
When there's no off-the-shelf data feed for a body of law, scrape it yourself - and make that repeatable.
The dispumike fork adds a connector to the EU's official legal corpus, opening Mike to European source material.
📝 Gadoes wires Mike into Pakistan's Al-Meezan legal database 2 commits 24d ago searchintegration draft
A small adapter pulls Pakistani statutes and case law into the fork, alongside an accidentally-published roadmap that reveals where this fork is really headed.
📝 Gadoes wires up a US federal documents connector - minus the engine 2 commits 25d ago integrationsearch draft
A second government-data source is plumbed into the fork, but it can't actually run yet.
The dispumike fork can now pull from CourtListener, the free database of US federal and state court opinions.
The fork turns a backend catalogue of legal data sources into a real product surface - users connect them, pick them, and scope them per question.
Every answer the assistant gives now comes with sourced, link-checkable citations rendered as cards under the message.
📝 Gadoes is wiring Mike up to outside legal sources 6 commits 25d ago integrationinfrastructure draft
The fork is laying the plumbing for Mike's assistant to pull from external legal databases on demand, not just whatever's loaded at startup.
Threads of work (detailed view)
Gadoes ships the missing safety valve
A cleanup commit on the dispumike fork quietly lands the circuit breaker the rest of the codebase has been pretending existed.
Gadoes makes citations prove themselves
The dispumike fork adds a one-click way to re-check whether a cited source actually says what the AI claimed it said.
Gadoes turns on the lights for outside tool calls
When the AI reaches out to external sources, every call now gets logged - and there's an admin page to see it all.
Gadoes bolts a cache onto Mike's outside-data calls
A small caching layer means repeat lookups to external sources stop costing time and rate-limit headroom.
Gadoes builds a scraper framework for jurisdictions the APIs forgot
When there's no off-the-shelf data feed for a body of law, scrape it yourself - and make that repeatable.
Gadoes plugs Mike into EUR-Lex
The dispumike fork adds a connector to the EU's official legal corpus, opening Mike to European source material.
Gadoes wires Mike into Pakistan's Al-Meezan legal database
A small adapter pulls Pakistani statutes and case law into the fork, alongside an accidentally-published roadmap that reveals where this fork is really headed.
Gadoes wires up a US federal documents connector - minus the engine
A second government-data source is plumbed into the fork, but it can't actually run yet.
Gadoes wires dispumike into US caselaw
The dispumike fork can now pull from CourtListener, the free database of US federal and state court opinions.
Gadoes makes legal sources a thing you can actually pick
The fork turns a backend catalogue of legal data sources into a real product surface - users connect them, pick them, and scope them per question.
Gadoes builds a citation spine into Mike
Every answer the assistant gives now comes with sourced, link-checkable citations rendered as cards under the message.
Gadoes is wiring Mike up to outside legal sources
The fork is laying the plumbing for Mike's assistant to pull from external legal databases on demand, not just whatever's loaded at startup.