mattvitale/Dennis-OSS

Early-stage Australian Mike fork with a jurisdiction-scoped persona prompt and rebrand, core features not yet wired

Two topics, both documentation/design rather than code. The prompt file and README rewrites signal a clear direction but the fork is in its earliest stage. No functional changes to evaluate. Watch for follow-up commits that wire the system prompt into the backend or add an AustLII/High Court ingestion pipeline.

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mattvitale/Dennis-OSS is a Mike fork being repositioned for Australian legal practice under the "Dennis OSS" name. The commits so far are intent-setting rather than functional: a prompts/dennis-system.md file defining an AU-scoped legal persona (jurisdiction, terminology, tone), and a README overhaul describing the project goals (data sovereignty, AU-specific knowledge base, self-hosting for Australian firms).

Neither change touches the backend or frontend chat pipeline. The persona prompt isn't loaded anywhere yet, and the README explicitly says the Australian-specific improvements are still being built. The core Mike platform runs as-is; the AU differentiation layer doesn't exist yet.

What's in it

Dennis OSS branding A full rebrand from Mike to Dennis OSS, with marketing positioned around Australian legal practice.
Australian-law persona A drafted system prompt that frames the assistant as an Australian lawyer, ready to be wired up.
Regional positioning Pitched explicitly at Australian users rather than as a generic legal tool.

Direction

brandingpersonasi18n

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.

📝 Rebrand README to "Dennis OSS" - Australian Mike fork 2 commits 2mo ago minor change

📝 mattvitale drafts an Australian-only legal persona called Dennis 2 commits 2mo ago personasi18n draft

A new system prompt scopes the model to Australian law - Commonwealth, State and Territory - though it isn't wired into anything yet.

Threads of work (detailed view)

2 threads have been distilled into posts.

mattvitale drafts an Australian-only legal persona called Dennis

A new system prompt scopes the model to Australian law - Commonwealth, State and Territory - though it isn't wired into anything yet.

personasi18n

2 commits · latest 2mo ago

Australian-law persona prompt added as `prompts/dennis-system.md` (not yet wired in)

mattvitale commits a system-prompt definition for an Australian legal AI persona - jurisdiction-scoped to AU law, with Commonwealth/State/Territory disambiguation and a Castle-tone instruction. The file exists but isn't connected to the chat pipeline yet.

personasi18n

2 commits · latest 2mo ago