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justice-bac/mike

justice-bac is doing the deployment plumbing that lets Mike actually run inside a government department, not just on a laptop.

A concentrated burst of setup work - 14 commits across five threads - that landed by mid-May 2026 and has been quiet since; early days for a fork focused on getting Mike deployable.

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This fork of Mike is an infrastructure effort, plain and simple. Where the base project hands you something to clone and stand up yourself, justice-bac is building the path to production: a reproducible development container, a one-command route to cloud hosting on Fly.io, and - tellingly - the certificate and TLS work needed to run behind a Government-of-Canada firewall. The through-line is operability, not new legal features.

The work is led by justice-bac, with contributions from @juleskuehn on the devcontainer bring-up. The Government-of-Canada TLS root handling is the loudest signal about who this is for: an organization that needs Mike to run inside a locked-down public-sector environment rather than in the open. Alongside that, justice-bac kept the branch synced with upstream as the setup came together.

If you want to see how a legal-AI tool gets made deployable inside a government department - as opposed to what it does for lawyers - this is a fork worth clicking through to. The detail lives on GitHub.

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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.

📝 Devcontainer bring-up for the justice-bac fork 5 commits 2mo ago minor change
📝 Devcontainer with Government-of-Canada TLS Root 5 commits 2mo ago minor change
📝 Upstream Sync into jus-setup Branch 1 commit 2mo ago minor change

Threads of work (detailed view)

4 threads have been distilled into posts.

justice-bac adds Fly.io deployment with an 855-line interactive deploy script

justice-bac/mike ships two-stage Dockerfiles for backend and frontend, `fly.toml` configs, and a substantial deploy script that handles multi-source secret resolution, builder retry logic, and automatic `NEXT_PUBLIC_*` build-arg injection. The Dockerfiles and the lazy-init Supabase pattern are straightforward to borrow; the script is opinionated around a `backend/.env` + `frontend/.env.local` workflow but structurally reusable.

infrastructureintegration
8 commits · latest 2mo ago

justice-bac wires devcontainer for corporate VPN and deploys mike to Fly.io

justice-bac/mike adds a `.devcontainer/` setup that trusts the Government of Canada TLS interception root, then builds out a full Fly.io deployment path including Dockerfiles, `fly.toml` configs, and an interactive deploy script. The devcontainer fix is specific to corporate VPN environments; the Fly.io scaffolding is broadly applicable.

infrastructure
8 commits · latest 2mo ago

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 (1)

⛔ Closed without merge (2)