Sloth-ninja puts JessicaOSS under legal-product guardrails
This fork starts with a delivery constitution, treating UK localisation as a governed product conversion rather than a new coat of paint.
Sloth-ninja has set out a short, structured route for moving Mike toward UK legal use, with priorities including replacing US-focused sources, adding Companies House and legislation.gov.uk, supporting local AI models, and adopting UK legal language.
The more consequential move is the operating discipline around that work:
- Verifiable statutory citations, with a planned gate to check them before release.
- Encrypted user-supplied AI keys and protections for secrets and database changes.
- Human review of proposed changes, preservation of licence attribution, and deliberately small departures from the upstream project.
The citation check is not yet a finished user feature and relies on external services and AI judging, so its cost and reliability will need careful handling.
So what Legal-product teams adapting open-source AI for a specific jurisdiction should look here for a practical example of making trust, provenance and change control part of the build plan.
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