foolish-bandit reskins Mike as Gary

A surface-level rename that swaps every user-visible Mike for Gary while leaving the plumbing untouched.

branding

foolish-bandit has rebranded their fork from Mike to Gary across the parts a user actually sees: page titles, the sidebar logo, signup links, the AI assistant's own self-description, even the author name stamped on tracked changes inside exported Word documents.

What's notable is what they didn't touch. The commit message is upfront that internal names - the things only engineers see - were deliberately left as Mike to keep the change small and reviewable. The team has flagged this as known follow-up work rather than pretending it's done. It's a soft rebrand, not a product split, and a tidy template for anyone planning a similar rename: change what users read, leave the wiring alone, and be honest about the debt.

So what Useful reading for any team contemplating a fork-and-rename: this is what a minimum-viable reskin looks like when you're being disciplined about scope.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`795beff5`	Merge pull request #1 from foolish-bandit/claude/rebrand-mikeoss-garyoss-DJs0e	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS
`fc479cb8`	Update README.md	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`dae6f594`	Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS	Claude	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
commit body Updates user-visible branding (HTML titles, sidebar/logo text, AI system prompts, DOCX tracked-changes author, signup links, placeholder copy) and renames the frontend/backend npm packages to gary and gary-backend. Default R2 bucket name in env example and storage.ts fallbacks changes from "mike" to "gary". Internal type names (MikeDocument, MikeIcon, mikeApi module, drag/drop MIME types, localStorage key, change-id prefix) are intentionally left unchanged to keep this PR small; they can be renamed in a follow-up. https://claude.ai/code/session_01McEfVnpbGdMs5TgeTM7P3R

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