umerkay bolts a web research desk onto Mike

umerkay has wired Mike up to Olostep, a third-party web-research service, giving the backend the ability to pull a clean text version of any page, ask an AI questions about what's on it, crawl across multiple pages, or map out the shape of a site. The plumbing is opt-in: if you don't set an API key, nothing breaks, and nothing costs you anything.

The target use case is legal research - fetching cited sources, interrogating a page for the answer to a specific question, or building a local picture of a publication's site. It's a clean bolt-on rather than a deep integration: no frontend yet, no rate limits or audit logging on the outbound paid calls, and the crawl endpoint hands back a job ID with no way to retrieve the result in this cut. The shape of the integration also ties Mike fairly tightly to Olostep specifically.