Frontend copy: "Project" replaced with "Matter" across 17 files, internals unchanged

vincentbirot's first merged PR is a pure label swap - every user-visible "Project"/"Projects" in the Mike frontend becomes "Matter"/"Matters" to match legal-industry vocabulary. No schema, route, or API identifier changes.

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The bulk of the work is commit bf59784: ~40 changed lines across 15 components covering tabs, button labels, aria attributes, breadcrumbs, modal headers, empty states, and column headers. A follow-up commit a461d97 catches the strings missed in AddNewTRModal.tsx and DisplayWorkflowModal.tsx.

The boundary was drawn deliberately. Component names (NewProjectModal, SelectAssistantProjectModal), TypeScript types, prop names, the /projects URL path, and all API identifiers (listProjects, projectId) are untouched. So the URL bar still reads /projects, developer logs still say "project", and the database schema is identical to upstream. The commit messages name this tradeoff explicitly.

The practical consequence: every future upstream merge from willchen96/mike that touches these string positions will produce conflicts. Not a lot of conflicts, but predictable, recurring ones.

So what Worth pulling if your product targets law firms where "matter" is the expected term for a client engagement. Skip if you're not in legal - the rename creates ongoing merge friction with no benefit to a non-legal audience. If you do adopt it, a labels constants file would be cheaper to maintain than scattered string replacements.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`bf597840`	feat(ui): rename Project label to Matter	Vincent Birot	2026-05-03	↗ GitHub
commit body Update all user-facing UI labels from "Project"/"Projects" to "Matter"/"Matters" to align with legal industry terminology. Component names, prop names, types, routes, and API endpoints remain unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`a461d97c`	feat(ui): rename Project label to Matter	Vincent Birot	2026-05-03	↗ GitHub
commit body Rename user-visible "Project" text to "Matter" throughout the frontend to align with legal terminology. Changes include: - Navigation sidebar: "Projects" → "Matters" - Form labels and placeholders: "project/projects" → "matter/matters" - Buttons and breadcrumbs: "Projects" → "Matters" - Empty states and messaging: Updated all user-facing copy Does NOT change: - File names, component names, prop names, types - URL paths and API endpoints - Variable and function names Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`9d5c2abb`	Merge pull request #1 from vincentbirot/feat/rename-project-to-matter	vincentbirot	2026-05-03	↗ GitHub
feat(ui): rename Project label to Matter

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