sid-swirl tries to give Mike a research desk outside its own files

A proposed pair of tools would let the project assistant search live outside sources and pull documents straight in - but the work was closed without landing.

sid-swirl wired Mike's assistant into SWIRL, a federated search engine that queries many separate data sources at once, and added two new abilities:

Live external search: the assistant could reach past a project's uploaded files into things like case law, regulations, sanctions lists, and company filings, returning ranked results with a title, snippet, link, and source.
Scoped Microsoft 365 search: it could aim a query at a single connected source (OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, or Teams) or sweep all of them together.
One-click import: a document from any search result could be pulled straight into the current project - PDF or Word - with the project sidebar refreshing on its own, no page reload.
Credential-safe fetches: for password-protected sources, the download ran through SWIRL, which held the login token, so no credentials ever passed through the AI.

If SWIRL wasn't configured, the tools stayed quiet rather than breaking the assistant. The pull request was closed unmerged, so none of this shipped in this fork.