CaliLuke pulls Mike off the cloud and turns it into a private job-search workbench

This fork has stopped being a legal-AI tool entirely - it's being rebuilt as a single-user app that runs start-to-finish on your own machine.

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CaliLuke has rebranded the fork "Luke" and given it a completely different job: a local-first workbench for running a job search, where each project is a position you're chasing. The bigger story is the engineering pivot underneath. The original cloud plumbing - hosted database, hosted auth, cloud file storage - is on its way out, replaced by tools that live entirely on your own computer: an embedded database that's just a file on disk, local file storage, and Ollama, which runs AI models on your laptop instead of sending anything to a remote service.

The team has published an eight-stage migration plan and landed the first piece - proving the local database can save data, close, reopen, and read it back reliably. The old backend stays alive only as a stopgap while the new one is built.

So what Worth a look for anyone interested in fully offline, no-cloud AI tools - though note this fork has left the legal domain behind.

Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?

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`9470452d`	Add Luke local-first migration plan and persistence spike	CaliLuke	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
commit body Reframes the repo as Luke (a local-first single-user job-search workbench), adds the milestone plan for migrating off Supabase/Express to a Loom Go backend on embedded SurrealDB, and lands the Rust FFI persistence spike that the plan depends on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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9470452d

Add Luke local-first migration plan and persistence spike

CaliLuke

2026-05-06

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commit body

Reframes the repo as Luke (a local-first single-user job-search workbench),
adds the milestone plan for migrating off Supabase/Express to a Loom Go
backend on embedded SurrealDB, and lands the Rust FFI persistence spike
that the plan depends on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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