jmclark-lab/mike

This is @jmclark-lab's take on Mike, and it's not a cosmetic fork. The headline move is a full engine swap: the stock language model is gone, replaced outright by Sakana AI's Fugu models with no toggle and no fallback. That's a committed bet rather than an experiment left running behind a flag - if you try this fork, you're talking to Fugu, full stop.

The second big idea is grounding. @jmclark-lab wired live web search into the chat flow so the model can pull current results at answer time instead of leaning only on what it already knows. The stated reason is the kind of thing legal readers will recognize: regulatory lookups, timeline checks, and current legal-pathway questions all go stale fast, and a static model gets them wrong. Fresh search results are stitched in before the model responds.

Rounding it out is a real deployment story - the fork is set up to ship on Railway, with the build wiring tuned to match. There's no rebrand here and no stated niche beyond what the work implies; @jmclark-lab is a single handle with a lab-flavored name and not much else to go on. If you want the specifics, the GitHub repo is where the depth lives.