fayerman-source/mike

A security-minded Mike fork focused on safer legal AI evaluation and stronger project-level privacy boundaries.

A short, concentrated burst of 12 tracked safety and operational threads in May 2026; no subsequent upstream divergence is recorded.

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fayerman-source is shaping Mike for legal teams that need to test AI-assisted document work without treating sensitive material casually. The fork focuses on keeping conversational and document context out of default plaintext retention, while preserving an opt-in route for troubleshooting.

It also tightens the separation between projects when people reorganise folders or documents, and adds practical guidance for firms trying Mike locally with disposable infrastructure, synthetic material, and limited-spend credentials. The direction is cautious, self-hosting-friendly legal AI rather than a visible product redesign.

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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.

📝 Safe local testing guide added to onboarding path 0 commits — securityinfrastructure draft
fayerman-source added a dedicated guide for evaluating Mike with sensitive legal workflows, linked from the setup README so it sits on the path a first-time self-hoster actually follows. The guide pushes toward disposabl…

Threads of work (detailed view)

5 threads have been distilled into posts.

Raw Claude stream logging gated behind DEBUG_LLM_STREAM flag

fayerman-source proposed removing the unconditional write of `claude-raw-stream.log` and replacing it with a debug flag. The concern was concrete: raw stream events carry user prompts and document context, and writing every event to an unbounded plaintext file is unnecessary data retention in a legal workflow context.

Safe local testing guide added to onboarding path

fayerman-source added a dedicated guide for evaluating Mike with sensitive legal workflows, linked from the setup README so it sits on the path a first-time self-hoster actually follows. The guide pushes toward disposable infrastructure, synthetic documents, spend-capped API keys, and keeping service-role secrets off the frontend.

Pull requests (detailed view)

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

✅ Merged (2)

⛔ Closed without merge (1)