chore: Gary branding, metadata, and public-readiness polish

↗ view on GitHub · Claude · 2026-05-19 · 9d868c45

Make Gary feel like a coherent, intentional open-source product rather
than a lightly renamed fork. No new functionality.

Branding / user-facing copy:
- App-shell wordmark, global-error page title, and the built-in
  Saved Legal Task author label now read "Gary" instead of "Mike".
- Backend AI identity prompts (chat system prompt, Review Table
  assistant prompt) and the DOCX tracked-change author now say "Gary".
- Column-prompt placeholders, the support form, and the backend
  startup log say "Gary".
- Remaining "tabular review" wording in user-facing/LLM-facing strings
  updated to "Review Table" / "document review model".

App metadata (frontend/src/app/layout.tsx):
- Title "Gary - Open-source legal AI for U.S. lawyers" and a factual
  description across the page, Open Graph, and Twitter cards.
- metadataBase now reads NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL (documented in
  .env.local.example) instead of a hard-coded mikeoss.com domain.
- Avoids unsupported claims (no accuracy guarantee, not bar-compliant).

Visual assets:
- Add Gary social preview (SVG + rasterized PNG, 1200x630), a Gary
  wordmark/monogram logo, a standalone G mark, and a generated
  apple-touch-icon. Remove the orphaned MikeOSS link-image.jpg.
- The favicon (abstract aperture) is intentionally kept - it carries
  no Mike branding and doubles as the in-app loading spinner.

Documentation:
- Rewrite the root README: plain-English intro, who it's for, what it
  does, the 7-step product flow, bring-your-own-key explanation, how
  Gary differs from MikeOSS, features, limitations, roadmap, and a
  License & attribution section preserving the AGPL-3.0 / MikeOSS
  credit. Developer setup moved below the product overview.
- Add docs/README.md as a documentation index linking the setup
  guide, legal disclaimer, terminology map, and safe-testing doc.
- Point the CONTRIBUTING.md security link at the Gary repo.
- Update safe-local-testing.md to say Gary.

Tests:
- Add frontend/src/lib/branding.test.ts: metadata uses Gary and avoids
  unsupported claims, wordmark renders Gary, README credits MikeOSS
  and lists features + product flow, docs index links key docs, and
  the Gary visual assets exist.

Intentionally left unchanged (internal, renaming would add risk):
package names ("mike" / "mike-backend"), code identifiers (MikeProject,
MikeIcon, mikeApi, MikeLayout, etc.), the tabular_reviews /
organisation database columns, and the signup Terms/Privacy links
(no Gary-hosted legal pages exist yet - self-hosters substitute their
own).
Repository zgbrenner/gary
Author Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Parents 06f80d85
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