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foolish-bandit/gary

foolish-bandit is reshaping Mike into Gary, a lawyer-facing private AI workspace with guided lanes for reviewing, drafting, and explaining legal text.

Active and focused - 47 commits across 36 distinct threads in roughly a week, with the last push a few days ago.

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Gary is foolish-bandit's fork of Mike, rebranded end-to-end and pointed squarely at practicing lawyers. The engine underneath is left alone; the work is almost entirely on the surfaces a lawyer actually touches - the home screen, the empty states, the error messages, and the on-ramps into common legal tasks.

The fork organises the assistant around three guided workflows - Review a contract, Draft something, and Explain this clause - surfaced as action cards on a reworked home screen. Familiar developer vocabulary is swept out: Projects become Matters, Files become Documents, and configuration pages stop reading like a console. Answers are framed as document-backed, with the UI honest about when a citation isn't available.

foolish-bandit is also taking Gary off GitHub and onto the open web: a Cloudflare Workers deploy path for the frontend, and a documented playbook for hosting the backend on Railway or Render. A build-time auth bypass exists for demos. The README names the wedge plainly - lawyers who don't want to touch settings.

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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.

✅ #19 Backend deployment prep for Railway +1 18d ago self by foolish-bandit ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub
Summary: Prepares backend env documentation for Railway deployment readiness. The backend already uses npm commands, process.env.PORT, FRONTEND_URL CORS, unauthenticated /health, and nixpacks LibreOffice. Added NEXT_PUBL…
✅ #18 Cited-answer UI expectations +177 -13 18d ago self by foolish-bandit ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub
Summary: Adds frontend copy and light citation/source display so Gary answers are framed as document-backed and checked against cited sources. Updates Ask Gary input guidance, assistant answer citation cards/warnings, ta…
📝 GaryOSS handoff / architecture / roadmap docs (no public page) 5 commits 18d ago not yet rewritten
📝 Rewrite GaryOSS handoff and deployment docs (no public page) 1 commit 18d ago not yet rewritten
📝 Prep backend env for Railway deployment (no public page) 1 commit 18d ago not yet rewritten
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📝 Remove stray Bun lockfile so backend hosts pick npm (no public page) 1 commit 19d ago not yet rewritten
📝 Document backend deployment on Railway and Render (no public page) 1 commit 19d ago not yet rewritten
📝 Remove Bun lockfile so Cloudflare builds with npm (no public page) 1 commit 19d ago not yet rewritten
📝 foolish-bandit's Mike is now Gary 1 commit 19d ago brandingpersonas draft
A clean, surgical rebrand: every place a user sees the product name flips, while the engine underneath is left alone.

Threads of work (detailed view)

30 threads have been distilled into posts.

foolish-bandit's Mike is now Gary

A clean, surgical rebrand: every place a user sees the product name flips, while the engine underneath is left alone.

brandingpersonas
1 commit · latest 19d ago

foolish-bandit reskins Mike as Gary

A surface-level rename that swaps every user-visible Mike for Gary while leaving the plumbing untouched.

branding
3 commits · latest 19d ago

foolish-bandit polishes Gary's front door

A frontend-only pass tightens the first authenticated walkthrough - log in, upload, ask, cite - without touching the backend.

chat-uiintake
1 commit · latest 19d ago

Pull requests (detailed view)

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

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⛔ Closed without merge (1)