foolish-bandit gives Gary an Explain This button

A new paste-and-explain surface lands on the foolish-bandit fork, alongside a quiet tidy-up of the assistant's front door.

chat-uisummarization

The headline addition is a lightweight tool where a user can drop in a chunk of legal language and get a structured plain-English explanation back. It sits next to the chat assistant - now relabelled "Ask Gary" - as a fifth tile on the landing grid, with its own entry in the sidebar.

The rest of the work is housekeeping that users will feel rather than see. The team standardised on a small library of reusable interface pieces so future pages snap together faster, swapped the typography to a self-hosted Inter font for more predictable rendering, and tightened the messages users see when the backend isn't wired up - including a visible notice on the login screen when developer auth bypass is switched on. A persistent annoyance with the sidebar forgetting whether it was open also got fixed.

So what Worth a look for anyone watching how Gary forks are evolving from chat-only assistants into multi-tool legal workbenches.

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SHA Subject Author Date
58ef971c Add shadcn/ui foundation components Zack Brenner 2026-05-07 ↗ GitHub
ad2c41de Merge branch 'main' into codex/create-pr-#10-frontend-polish-and-bugfix-x4l6hb Zack Brenner 2026-05-07 ↗ GitHub

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