b1rdmania/mike

A safety-first take on Mike from @b1rdmania, focused on making first-run setup safe and document exports tamper-evident.

Early days - a handful of documentation and provenance proposals from @b1rdmania over spring 2026, with nothing yet diverging from upstream Mike.

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This is Mike as @b1rdmania would like newcomers to meet it: carefully, with the guardrails in view. The work here isn't a redesign of the product - it's about the experience around it. The recurring thread is a first-run that steers people toward disposable, throwaway setups before they wire up anything real, and a cleaner separation between the settings that are safe to share and the ones that must stay secret.

Alongside the onboarding work, @b1rdmania has proposed a contributor guide that spells out safe local testing and how contributors should handle data - the kind of ground rules a legal-AI codebase benefits from having written down. There's also a more substantive idea in the mix: recording a per-version fingerprint of stored documents so that once a file leaves Mike, you can tell an untouched export from an altered one.

The direction is coherent - lower the barrier to getting started safely, and close a provenance gap that matters when the documents in question are legal ones. What's here is largely proposals rather than landed change, so treat this as an early, safety-minded reading of where Mike could tighten up. Click through to GitHub if you want the specifics.

What's in it

Direction

securitycompliance

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.

📝 Document safe local setup and split public vs secret env vars 0 commits minor change
📝 Add a contributor guide with safe-testing and data-handling rules 0 commits minor change
📝 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)

1 thread have been distilled into posts.

Pull requests (detailed view)

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

🟢 Open (2)

⛔ Closed without merge (3)