b1rdmania/mike

A legal-workspace fork exploring verifiable document exports and safer contributor setup.

Despite 17 tracked threads, the fork currently shows no commits ahead of Mike and no push since 2026-08-02, so it appears paused or still in an exploratory stage.

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b1rdmania is shaping Mike around a practical trust question: can a recipient verify that an exported document is the version the workspace held? The clearest direction is tamper-evident project exports, using per-version fingerprints to support independent checking.

The fork also gives attention to the contributor experience: safer local testing with disposable services and synthetic documents, clearer handling of public versus secret settings, and focused contribution guidance. It is a small, security-minded product direction rather than a visible rebrand or new legal-practice niche.

What's in it

Verifiable exports Project exports are intended to include document-version fingerprints so recipients can check whether received files match the workspace record.
Tamper-evident document trail Document versions are being treated as evidence that should be distinguishable from altered or otherwise unverifiable copies.
Safer local setup Contributor guidance emphasizes disposable services and synthetic documents for first-time testing.
Clearer contribution path Proposed guidance covers local setup, relevant checks, and small focused pull requests.

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.

✅ #279 feat: content hashes on document versions + signed project export manifest +942 -6 3mo ago by b1rdmania ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

Rebase of #181 onto current main, with the manifest signing you asked for there.

📝 Simplify JSON body parsing 3 commits 3mo ago minor change

✅ #273 Remove dead jsonLimitForPath abstraction +5 -7 3mo ago by b1rdmania ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

`jsonLimitForPath()` ignores its `path` argument and always returns `"50mb"`, and the per-request wrapper re-invokes `express.json()` on every request for no effect. This replaces both with a single static `express.json(…

📝 b1rdmania makes Mike exports defensible with cryptographic proof 2 commits 3mo ago compliancesecurity draft

The fork gives project exports a way to show whether a received document is the same version held in the workspace.

⛔ #181 feat: content hashes on document versions + tamper-evident project export manifest +180 3mo ago by b1rdmania ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

## Summary

⛔ #133 docs: clarify safe local env setup +28 -3 4mo ago by b1rdmania ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

## Summary

⛔ #134 docs: add contributing guide +86 5mo ago by b1rdmania ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

## Summary

📝 b1rdmania wants Mike's exports to prove they weren't tampered with 0 commits — securitycompliance draft

An open proposal to fingerprint every document version so a firm can prove the file it holds is the one the system actually reviewed.

📝 Surface safe local testing guidance and split frontend env vars 0 commits — minor change

📝 Add a contributor guide for the Mike fork 0 commits — minor change

Threads of work (detailed view)

2 threads have been distilled into posts.

b1rdmania makes Mike exports defensible with cryptographic proof

The fork gives project exports a way to show whether a received document is the same version held in the workspace.

compliancesecurity

2 commits · latest 3mo ago

b1rdmania wants Mike's exports to prove they weren't tampered with

An open proposal to fingerprint every document version so a firm can prove the file it holds is the one the system actually reviewed.

securitycompliance

Pull requests (detailed view)

5 PRs touch this fork — inbound (filed against it) or outbound (filed from it). State icons match the editorial dashboard.

✅ Merged (2)

✅ merged · #279 feat: content hashes on document versions + signed project export manifest

by b1rdmania · opened 3mo ago · merged 3mo ago by willchen96

open-legal-products/mike ← b1rdmania/mike · +942 -6 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub

✅ merged · #273 Remove dead jsonLimitForPath abstraction

by b1rdmania · opened 3mo ago · merged 3mo ago by willchen96

open-legal-products/mike ← b1rdmania/mike · +5 -7 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub

⛔ Closed without merge (3)

⛔ closed · #181 feat: content hashes on document versions + tamper-evident project export manifest

by b1rdmania · opened 4mo ago · closed 3mo ago

open-legal-products/mike ← b1rdmania/mike · +180 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub

⛔ closed · #133 docs: clarify safe local env setup

by b1rdmania · opened 5mo ago · closed 4mo ago

open-legal-products/mike ← b1rdmania/mike · +28 -3 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub

⛔ closed · #134 docs: add contributing guide

by b1rdmania · opened 5mo ago · closed 5mo ago

open-legal-products/mike ← b1rdmania/mike · +86 · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub