A full AWS rebuild of Mike, rebranded as Louis, with metered usage, agent skills, and a polished chat surface for legal work.
Louis is dropthejase's reimagining of Mike on Amazon Web Services. The product keeps Mike's core idea - an AI assistant aimed at legal documents and tabular review - but rebuilds the plumbing end-to-end: a serverless backend, Aurora in place of the original database, Cognito for sign-in, and Bedrock as the single AI provider. The rename is thorough, with a Suits-themed wink for anyone who catches it.
A visitor trying Louis today would find a streaming chat UI with reasoning blocks and tool cards, a second assistant tuned for spreadsheet-style document review, the ability to upload reusable 'skill' files the agent draws on each turn, and a leashed web-browsing tool restricted to an editable allowlist. Sharing works for projects and tabular reviews, documents flow through presigned URLs rather than the backend, and each user runs on a monthly credit budget that cuts them off when spent.
dropthejase is also unusually candid about the rebuild's status - publishing feature-parity and original-functionality trackers, an architecture write-up, and a demo video alongside the code. The direction is clearly committed: single-page frontend, AWS-native infrastructure, agent-runtime backend, and observability and security tightened as the surface area grows.
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Users can now upload markdown 'skill' files once and have the agent draw on them every turn - no more re-pasting the same context.
Most forks quietly drift from upstream. This one writes down exactly where it has drifted, and where it falls short.
File uploads now flow through short-lived URLs the backend hands out, so the browser never holds cloud credentials.
After a stint behind a "Coming soon" tooltip, collaboration is live on dropthejase's fork of Mike.
A full identity rebuild on AWS, with optional multi-factor login and a delete flow built for compliance.
Louis rips out every AI provider except one and routes everything through Amazon.
Seventeen small fixes to the streaming chat UI that you only catch by using the product every day.
The biggest single piece of fork divergence yet: a top-to-bottom database replatform onto AWS.
The fork can now call external services as if they were built-in skills - and the credentials never sit in plain text.
Louis can now browse the web, but only to sites on a list the team can edit without a redeploy.
A round of fixes makes Mike's document-edit agent more honest about what it did, what broke, and where the citations actually point.
One assistant for general chat, a second one dedicated to spreadsheet-style document review - each with its own focused toolkit.
The fork swaps upstream's straightforward LLM-plus-tools setup for a full agent stack running on Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore.
The Louis fork swaps a Docker-based deployment for a simpler bundle-and-ship setup, and cleans the kitchen on the way out.
Word-to-PDF (and back) gets its own dedicated worker, triggered automatically whenever a file lands in storage.
After wiring up the framework's built-in session manager, the fork tore it out and rebuilt conversation history by hand.
Louis now hands users a direct line to the file store instead of relaying every download through its own servers.
Louis now meters legal-AI usage per person, per month - and cuts you off when you're out.
A full frontend rewrite that bets the fork is staying single-page-app for good.
Two small commits close a permissive default that often ships to production by accident.
A cosmetic but thorough rename - the product is now Louis, and the loading messages quote Louis Litt.
The Louis fork is being lifted onto AWS, and the scaffolding for that move just landed.
The fork repackages Mike's backend to run as a serverless function inside Amazon's cloud rather than as a long-running server.