This fork stops being a generic legal assistant and starts answering like it passed the Nevada bar.
joelakaufmann-lgtm/mike-kaufmann
Nevada-focused Mike fork: jurisdiction-pinned system prompt, renamed with upstream attribution
joelakaufmann-lgtm/mike-kaufmann personalizes Mike for a single American state jurisdiction. The fork renames the product to "Mike Kaufmann," explicitly credits Will Chen's upstream work in the README, and rewrites SYSTEM_PROMPT in chatTools.ts to pin the assistant to Nevada law - NRS/NAC as primary authority, the full Nevada court hierarchy, NRCP/NRAP, Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct, and Nevada citation style with Bluebook overrides. The jurisdictional defaults sit in a clearly scoped block that's additive to the existing prompt.
The system-prompt pattern is the only technically interesting piece here. Everything else is identity and attribution work.
What's in it
- Nevada-first legal reasoning The assistant is tuned to approach questions as a Nevada-law tool by default, rather than as a generic national one.
- Personal, named product Rebranded under joelakaufmann's own name - this reads as one practitioner's tool, not an anonymous fork.
- Credits the original Goes out of its way to attribute the upstream Mike author, so the lineage is clear.
Direction
personasbranding
Activity
📝 Mike Kaufmann README: fork attribution and a quick pivot from Dutch to Nevada 2 commits 2mo ago branding draft
Two back-to-back edits rename the project to "Mike Kaufmann," credit Will Chen's upstream work explicitly, and settle on Nevada as the target jurisdiction after a 36-second detour through "Dutch-focused."
Threads of work (detailed view)
joelakaufmann-lgtm makes Mike a Nevada lawyer
This fork stops being a generic legal assistant and starts answering like it passed the Nevada bar.
joelakaufmann-lgtm hard-codes Nevada jurisdiction into Mike's system prompt
A single commit to `chatTools.ts` adds a self-contained jurisdictional block to `SYSTEM_PROMPT`, pinning the assistant to Nevada law - NRS/NAC, the Nevada court hierarchy, NRCP/NRAP, and Nevada-specific citation style. The pattern is clean enough to adapt for other jurisdictions.
Mike Kaufmann README: fork attribution and a quick pivot from Dutch to Nevada
Two back-to-back edits rename the project to "Mike Kaufmann," credit Will Chen's upstream work explicitly, and settle on Nevada as the target jurisdiction after a 36-second detour through "Dutch-focused."