Open Legal Products makes Mike a safer self-hosted bet

Mike is putting stronger guardrails around the releases that legal teams run themselves.

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The team has built a coordinated quality programme aimed at catching breakages before they reach users or complicate a deployment.

Frontend checks that verify the day-to-day interface behaves as intended.
Backend and end-to-end checks that test complete user journeys across connected services.
Automated release checks that flag code-quality problems, database mismatches and unintended dependency changes.
Regression coverage designed to stop previously fixed problems returning.

This is not a new legal workflow, but it is meaningful operational plumbing: the safeguards are designed to work together, rather than as a collection of isolated tests.

So what Self-hosting firms and legal-product teams should care because better release discipline can mean fewer surprises when adapting or operating Mike.

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Commits in this thread

15 commits from open-legal-products/mike, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`948e9bdd`	Merge pull request #237 from amal66/olp-pr/coverage-critical-libs	Will Chen	2026-07-21	↗ GitHub
[Testing 09] test: unit-cover the highest-risk backend libs + raise the coverage ratchet
`39dc609f`	Merge pull request #234 from amal66/olp-pr/testing-docs	Will Chen	2026-07-21	↗ GitHub
[Docs 02] docs: testing policy in CONTRIBUTING + PR template
`73b9cd16`	Merge pull request #232 from amal66/olp-pr/ci-workflows	Will Chen	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
[CI 03] ci: build and test workflow for backend and frontend
`7d2ba4b8`	Merge pull request #235 from amal66/olp-pr/lint-burndown	Will Chen	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
[Lint 04] fix: burn down frontend eslint errors; make CI lint blocking
`2ec89a7c`	Merge pull request #230 from amal66/olp-pr/frontend-unit-tests	Will Chen	2026-07-22	↗ GitHub
[Testing 07] test: component and hook unit tests for the web app
`7460b065`	Merge pull request #240 from amal66/olp-pr/lockfile-merge-guard	Will Chen	2026-07-23	↗ GitHub
ci: guard against silently merge-corrupted lockfiles
`c0ff4404`	Merge pull request #233 from amal66/olp-pr/backend-integration-tests	Will Chen	2026-07-23	↗ GitHub
[Testing 08] test: route-level integration tests + real-Supabase auth/RLS suites
`74ceaa41`	chore(backend): sync bun.lock with vitest/supertest devDeps	willchen96	2026-07-26	↗ GitHub
The backend-integration-tests PR (#233) added vitest, supertest, and @vitest/coverage-v8 to backend/package.json but did not update bun.lock, leaving the lockfile behind the manifest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`dad4b9d2`	Merge pull request #220 from amal66/olp-pr/e2e-playwright	Will Chen	2026-07-26	↗ GitHub
[Testing 12] test: Playwright e2e suite + CI merge gate (auth, chat, projects, tabular, workflows)
`154051ae`	Merge pull request #258 from Open-Legal-Products/olp-pr/bun-lock-sync	Will Chen	2026-07-26	↗ GitHub
chore(backend): sync bun.lock with vitest/supertest devDeps
`9b42994a`	Merge pull request #236 from amal66/olp-pr/e2e-llm-unskip	Will Chen	2026-07-26	↗ GitHub
[Docs 13] docs(e2e): exact ANTHROPIC_API_KEY setup to enable the 4 LLM-gated specs
`1b00314d`	Merge pull request #256 from amal66/olp-pr/stack-tests-ci	Will Chen	2026-08-06	↗ GitHub
[Testing 16] ci: run the RLS/stack integration suite on every PR
`b0ee67e4`	Merge pull request #243 from amal66/olp-pr/e2e-hardening	Will Chen	2026-08-06	↗ GitHub
[Testing 20] test(e2e): accessibility scans + nightly run (stacked on #220)
`1af92310`	Merge pull request #293 from amal66/olp-pr/schema-drift-check	Amalanand Muthukumaran	2026-08-12	↗ GitHub
[Testing 17] ci: schema-drift check - fresh install vs upgraded deployment must converge
`9df42324`	Merge pull request #254 from amal66/olp-pr/test-depth-stretch	Will Chen	2026-08-13	↗ GitHub
[Testing 21] test depth: mutation testing + SSE load harness (on-demand)

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