wearefaces opens Mike up to outside tools and more AI models

wearefaces has added support for the Model Context Protocol, an emerging standard that lets an AI assistant reach out to external tools and data sources you connect yourself. Each user can register their own servers from a new settings page, and Mike folds those tools into the same chat it already runs natively. One broken connection won't take down the whole session.

The same release widens Mike's model choices, adding OpenRouter, a service that routes to many AI models through a single connection, alongside the existing options, plus a local-only bridge for running models on your own machine. It also lowers the bar for self-hosting: Mike now works without cloud file storage, falling back to the local disk when none is configured.