foolish-bandit is giving Gary a guided drafting desk

A new drafting screen walks you from "what kind of document" to a finished request, instead of handing you a blank chat box.

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Most legal-AI tools start you at an empty prompt and hope you know what to type. foolish-bandit's new drafting page does the opposite. You pick from eight document types first - email, letter, memo, clause, summary, demand letter, client update, or a freeform custom draft - and only then fill in the specifics: what you need (required), plus optional audience and tone. You can attach a reference document too.

What's quietly smart is the instruction baked into every request: draft from the facts provided, don't invent anything, and flag whatever's missing before the document can be finalized. That's a guardrail against the confident-but-wrong output that makes lawyers nervous. For now this is the interface sitting ahead of the engine - the screen is built, the backend connection comes in later work.

So what Anyone weighing legal drafting tools should watch how Gary structures the ask up front - the form, not the model, is where junk-in-junk-out gets prevented.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`61f1f719`	Merge pull request #9 from foolish-bandit/claude/draft-something-shell	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
Add /draft Draft Something workflow shell
`7c520d4f`	Add /draft Draft Something workflow shell	Claude	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
commit body Adds a frontend-only drafting flow that mirrors the /review pattern from PR #8. Reuses the existing assistant chat plumbing - no new backend routes, no API contract changes. - New route at /draft with a 3-step lawyer-friendly UI: 1. Choose draft type (8 cards: Email, Letter, Memo, Clause, Summary, Demand letter, Client update, Custom draft, each with plain-English helper copy) 2. Add details (description textarea with the suggested placeholder; optional Audience / Tone single-line fields; optional Attach a document via existing uploadStandaloneDocument; lawyer-facing caution box) 3. Review draft (handed off to the assistant chat) - Start Drafting builds a MikeMessage from the option's opening line + the user's description + optional metadata, appended with the default tail instruction: "Draft the requested legal document using the facts provided. Be clear, organized, and practical. Do not invent facts. Flag any missing information that would be needed before finalizing." Then reuses useAssistantChat.handleNewChat + router.push to the same /assistant/chat/{id} path used by /review and the home. - Updates the Gary-mode "Draft Something" card to point at /draft instead of /workflows. /workflows is unchanged. No backend changes, no auth/billing/teams, no new providers. License unchanged. https://claude.ai/code/session_019pRkhcGDRKQWHjzAnV5yCL

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