Sloth-ninja gives JessicaOSS a solicitor's vocabulary

The fork now calls each client workspace a Matter, replacing generic SaaS language with the term solicitors use for an engagement or file.

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The shift reaches the places people actually encounter the product: navigation, page titles, sharing and deletion dialogs, search filters, notifications, accessibility labels, and error messages.

It is deliberately a language pass, not a structural rewrite. Behind the scenes, links, records and internal labels retain their existing names, keeping the change small and making future updates from the parent project easier to absorb. The terminology decision has also been recorded for solicitor review.

So what UK-focused legal teams should care because familiar language lowers friction when staff open, share and manage client work.

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3111db6e WS7: rename Projects to Matters in user-facing copy sloth-ninja 2026-07-19 ↗ GitHub

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`3111db6e`	WS7: rename Projects to Matters in user-facing copy	sloth-ninja	2026-07-19	↗ GitHub
commit body String-only rename of the workspace concept across all user-facing strings: sidebar nav, headings, breadcrumbs, modals, empty states, filter/column labels, aria-labels, toasts, privacy-data dialogs, and backend error details ("Matter not found", share/target phrasing). 99 strings across 27 files. Deliberately unchanged (hard rule 8 / accepted owner trade-off): identifiers, /projects route paths, DB names, log tags, comments, LLM-internal prompt text, and the "Project Finance" practice area. Terminology decision logged as R10 in docs/LEGAL_LANGUAGE_REVIEW.md for solicitor sign-off; BUILD_LOG entry added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

commit body

String-only rename of the workspace concept across all user-facing
strings: sidebar nav, headings, breadcrumbs, modals, empty states,
filter/column labels, aria-labels, toasts, privacy-data dialogs, and
backend error details ("Matter not found", share/target phrasing).
99 strings across 27 files.

Deliberately unchanged (hard rule 8 / accepted owner trade-off):
identifiers, /projects route paths, DB names, log tags, comments,
LLM-internal prompt text, and the "Project Finance" practice area.
Terminology decision logged as R10 in docs/LEGAL_LANGUAGE_REVIEW.md
for solicitor sign-off; BUILD_LOG entry added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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