ericlovold makes Mike runnable inside a self-contained cloud VM
A practical setup guide turns Mike from a codebase with outside dependencies into something a team can try end to end on one machine.
This is setup work, not a product feature. But it removes a real obstacle: someone evaluating or extending Mike can bring up its required services in one development machine, without first arranging hosted identity, database and document-storage accounts.
The guidance covers:
- Local sign-in and project data through Supabase, a self-hosted package for authentication and Postgres databases.
- Local document storage through MinIO, an S3-compatible storage service.
- Optional Anthropic, an AI model provider, for the assistant; sign-up, project creation and PDF upload work without it.
- One limitation: office files will not convert to PDF until LibreOffice is installed.
Ericlovold reports testing the full route, including an assistant response when a provider key is supplied. The pull request remains open, and the operational steps are manual by design.
So what Teams assessing Mike or planning a private trial should care because the guide makes a credible hands-on evaluation far easier to set up.
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