foolish-bandit renames Mike to Gary, all the way down

A surface-wide rebrand that touches everything a user sees and nothing underneath.

branding

foolish-bandit took the open-source Mike codebase and renamed it Gary everywhere it shows up: page titles, the sidebar, the assistant's own self-description, the storage defaults, the package names, even the author name stamped on tracked changes inside generated Word documents. The startup logs say Gary now too. What didn't move: the backend, the data model, the way anything actually works. This is paint, not plumbing.

The one bit of real copy editing came in the product description, which went from pitching itself "for one lawyer or small firm" to the broader "a private, hosted legal AI workspace" - a quiet widening of who it's for.

So what If you're eyeing Mike as the base for your own branded legal product, this fork is a clean, end-to-end template for what a rename actually has to touch.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`795beff5`	Merge pull request #1 from foolish-bandit/claude/rebrand-mikeoss-garyoss-DJs0e	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS
`fc479cb8`	Update README.md	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`dae6f594`	Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS	Claude	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
commit body Updates user-visible branding (HTML titles, sidebar/logo text, AI system prompts, DOCX tracked-changes author, signup links, placeholder copy) and renames the frontend/backend npm packages to gary and gary-backend. Default R2 bucket name in env example and storage.ts fallbacks changes from "mike" to "gary". Internal type names (MikeDocument, MikeIcon, mikeApi module, drag/drop MIME types, localStorage key, change-id prefix) are intentionally left unchanged to keep this PR small; they can be renamed in a follow-up. https://claude.ai/code/session_01McEfVnpbGdMs5TgeTM7P3R

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