Product renamed Mike → Louis; thinking-phase strings get Suits-character flavour

dropthejase renamed the product to Louis in user-facing text and swapped the thinking-phase placeholder strings for Louis Litt references from the TV show Suits. Internal symbols like `MikeEditAnnotation` and `mikeApi` were left as-is - the rename is surface-level only.

branding

Four commits touch the rename. The first (d416d4f) updates display strings in AppSidebar, AddColumnModal, WFEditColumnModal, WorkflowList, global-error.tsx, layout.tsx, and site-logo.tsx. The second (8f7a17d) replaces "Thinking...", "Pondering...", "Analyzing...", "Reviewing...", and "Reasoning..." in AssistantMessage.tsx with "Litting it up...", "Mudbathing...", "Redoing Harold's work...", "Delegating to Katrina...", and "Finding Rick...". The third (8b1f5a4) updates docs and git remote config. The fourth (373f2cc) deletes chatTools.ts and its 2936-line LLM tools implementation (dead code by this point), and does a further README pass.

The rename is genuinely shallow. File names, import paths, internal type names, and database identifiers remain mike-prefixed throughout.

So what Skip unless you are also doing a white-label rename. The only useful thing here is a checklist of which user-facing strings exist in the codebase - useful if you ever need to find them all.

Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?

Commits in this thread

4 commits from dropthejase/louis, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`d416d4ff`	chore(frontend): rename app from Mike to Louis in all user-facing text	Jason Lee	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`8f7a17d9`	chore(frontend): replace thinking phrases with Louis Litt Suits references	Jason Lee	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`8b1f5a46`	Update docs and git remote for Louis rename	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body - README.md: fix AuthStack table entry (remove stale pre-token-gen / post-deletion Lambda references) - docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: full rewrite to reflect completed Aurora migration (remove all Supabase references, add DatabaseStack, updated agent/auth/security sections) - docs/ORIGINAL-FUNCTIONALITY.md: mark post-deletion Lambda as removed - aws-migration-notes.md: update to completed migration summary - git remote: updated to https://github.com/dropthejase/louis.git
`373f2cc3`	chore: delete dead chatTools/credits, update README (Mike→Louis, Finch steps, agent paths)	Jason Lee	2026-05-09	↗ GitHub

SHA

Subject

Author

Date

d416d4ff

chore(frontend): rename app from Mike to Louis in all user-facing text

Jason Lee

2026-05-07

↗ GitHub

8f7a17d9

chore(frontend): replace thinking phrases with Louis Litt Suits references

Jason Lee

2026-05-07

↗ GitHub

8b1f5a46

Update docs and git remote for Louis rename

Jason Lee

2026-05-08

↗ GitHub

commit body

- README.md: fix AuthStack table entry (remove stale pre-token-gen / post-deletion Lambda references)
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: full rewrite to reflect completed Aurora migration (remove all Supabase references, add DatabaseStack, updated agent/auth/security sections)
- docs/ORIGINAL-FUNCTIONALITY.md: mark post-deletion Lambda as removed
- aws-migration-notes.md: update to completed migration summary
- git remote: updated to https://github.com/dropthejase/louis.git

373f2cc3

chore: delete dead chatTools/credits, update README (Mike→Louis, Finch steps, agent paths)

Jason Lee

2026-05-09

↗ GitHub

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