amal66 is hardening Mike for the loading dock

The fork adds the basics that make an application safer and easier to operate once it leaves a developer's machine.

securityinfrastructure

amal66 has reworked how Mike's service starts up to add security-focused response headers and clearer checks on its operating state.

The practical changes are:

Security headers: added protections that tell browsers how to handle the service more safely.
Health checks: a simple signal that the service is running.
Readiness checks: a separate signal that it is ready to receive real traffic.

That distinction matters in a managed deployment: a hosting platform can avoid sending users to a service that has started but is not yet prepared to do its job. The change is a credible operational hardening step, though anyone adopting it should test it against their existing proxy and deployment setup.

So what Legal teams or product teams putting Mike into a production environment should care because reliability and basic web safeguards become part of the product's trustworthiness.

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0a153ed6 fix(chapter-07): add security headers and readiness checks Amal 2026-05-24 ↗ GitHub

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`0a153ed6`	fix(chapter-07): add security headers and readiness checks	Amal	2026-05-24	↗ GitHub
commit body Chapter: 07 - Deployable hardening. Plain-English map: Add API and frontend security headers, wire the structured request logger into the Express app, and add a readiness endpoint that checks whether dependencies are available. Why it matters: Browsers and platforms need clear signals. Security headers reduce browser-side risk, while readiness checks tell deploy platforms when the app can actually serve traffic. Principle: Defense in depth plus honest health checks. Precedent borrowed: Upstream PR #78 and standard container/load-balancer practice that separates liveness from readiness. Upstream base: willchen96/mike@d39f580. Original local commit: 73ff97a.

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Chapter: 07 - Deployable hardening.

Plain-English map:
Add API and frontend security headers, wire the structured request logger into
the Express app, and add a readiness endpoint that checks whether dependencies
are available.

Why it matters:
Browsers and platforms need clear signals. Security headers reduce browser-side
risk, while readiness checks tell deploy platforms when the app can actually
serve traffic.

Principle:
Defense in depth plus honest health checks.

Precedent borrowed:
Upstream PR #78 and standard container/load-balancer practice that separates
liveness from readiness.

Upstream base: willchen96/mike@d39f580.
Original local commit: 73ff97a.

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