nwhitehouse wires Mike up to a self-hosted AI option
A third AI engine that runs on your own hardware, not someone else's cloud - plus a fix for garbled bold text in generated Word docs.
Most Mike-derived tools lean on outside AI providers like Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini, where requests leave your walls. Across three commits, nwhitehouse added a third option: an engine that points at a model you host yourself, slotted in alongside the existing two without disturbing them. The follow-up work smoothed the rough edges - sensible defaults so the model has room to think, and clearer setup messages telling an operator exactly what's missing when configuration isn't right. Adopting it means standing up your own model server and setting two configuration values; for teams already running self-hosted AI, it drops in without rewiring the rest.
The same run also fixes a smaller but visible bug: documents exported to Word were printing the raw asterisks around bold text instead of actually bolding it. Now they render properly.
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