A third AI engine joins Claude and Gemini - this one running inside Microsoft's cloud.
simkjels/mike
simkjels is broadening Mike's AI backbone and steadying its install story - a quiet, infrastructure-leaning fork.
This is simkjels's take on Mike, and so far the work points squarely at the plumbing rather than the product surface. The headline move is adding Azure OpenAI / Foundry as a third LLM option alongside Claude and Gemini, which opens the door for teams whose procurement or compliance posture pushes them toward Microsoft's cloud rather than Anthropic or Google directly.
Alongside that, simkjels has done some unglamorous-but-useful housekeeping on the frontend install path - nudging framework versions forward and tightening dependency pins so a fresh clone is less likely to surprise the next person who tries to stand it up.
There's no rebrand here, no obvious niche pitch, and no deployment story being told out loud yet. It reads like a developer making Mike more usable in environments they care about, and shoring up the foundations while they're in there. If you're curious about the specifics, the GitHub repo is the place to look.
What's in it
- Azure OpenAI / Foundry support Adds Microsoft's Azure-hosted models as a first-class provider next to Claude and Gemini, giving teams a third path to power Mike's AI features.
- Runtime-discovered Azure deployments Picks up available Azure model deployments from environment configuration, so operators can point Mike at whatever they've provisioned without code changes.
- Steadier fresh-clone installs Tightens frontend dependency versions so setting up the project on a clean machine is more predictable.
Direction
infrastructureintegration
Activity
📝 Frontend install hardening on fresh clones (no public page) 1 commit 22d ago not yet rewritten
Threads of work (detailed view)
simkjels wires Mike up to Azure OpenAI
A third AI engine joins Claude and Gemini - this one running inside Microsoft's cloud.