bgevconsultancy strips Helm-v2 down to a citation-first copilot

This fork trades Mike's broad legal-AI toolkit for a much narrower chat experience built around answering from documents with citations.

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The team has cut several major branches of the original product, leaving a deliberately focused starting point for a legal research and document-questioning copilot.

System workflows have gone.
Third-party connectors, including their sign-in plumbing, have gone.
Case-law search and citation tools have gone.
Individual model selection and chat quick actions have gone.

Tabular review was also removed in this phase, though it returns later on the fork's new document-answering stack. The other cuts remain in place.

So what Firms and product teams that want a simpler, citation-led legal chat tool may find the trade-off appealing; teams relying on integrations, workflows or case-law search should inspect the fork closely first.

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Commits in this thread

15 commits from bgevconsultancy/Helm-v2, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`29fb8f96`	T1.6 delete ask-inputs quick-actions	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`1ed14840`	T1.3 delete mcp connectors	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`6cf0dd6d`	T1.5 delete api-keys model picker	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`d1cd71d7`	T1.2 delete workflows	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`b9a8ec9d`	T1.1 delete tabular	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
Remove tabular review UI, API routes, and user-facing export/delete paths while preserving workflow column editing via relocated helpers.
`a71f10d7`	Fix column preset bullet encoding after tabular move	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`a238de53`	T1.4 delete case-law	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
Remove CourtListener routes, tools, UI, and API key wiring while preserving RAG chat and document citation flows.
`4ac9f509`	merge T1.2 delete workflows	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`cef905ec`	merge T1.3 delete mcp connectors	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`8aa65cec`	merge T1.4 delete case-law	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`15d6c161`	merge T1.5 delete api keys	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`1cd60d8a`	merge T1.6 delete ask inputs quick actions	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`ff6197e7`	Phase 1 merge cleanup: resolve compile after T1.1-T1.6	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
`e5898407`	T1.8 drop deleted-feature tables	bengg	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
Remove tabular, workflow, MCP, and CourtListener bulk-index schema from migrations and schema.sql; rewrite get_projects_overview without review_count; strip tabular cleanup from userDataCleanup.
`72c4aab2`	T1.7 remove dead dependencies	Clava Stripdown	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub

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