CaliLuke rebrands the fork as Luke and rips out the cloud

What started as a Mike fork is now openly a different product: a single-user, local-first AI workbench for running a job search.

infrastructurebranding

CaliLuke has rewritten the README, restated the project's identity as Luke, and published an eight-step migration plan that walks the codebase away from almost everything Mike depends on - the hosted login, the cloud database, the cloud file storage, and the Node web server. In their place: an embedded database that lives in a file on your laptop, a Go backend, local AI by default via Ollama (an app that runs language models on your own machine), and eventually a proper desktop app.

This commit also lands the first technical proof point - a small Go-and-Rust spike showing the embedded database can actually save data to a file, close, reopen, and read it back. That's the load-bearing question for a local-first product, and CaliLuke wanted it answered before committing to the rest. One footnote worth noting: the license file was deleted in the same commit, which is likely an oversight rather than intent.

So what Anyone watching whether legal-AI tools can credibly run entirely on a single user's laptop - no cloud, no tenant, no login - should track where this lands.

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

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`9470452d`	Add Luke local-first migration plan and persistence spike	CaliLuke	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
commit body Reframes the repo as Luke (a local-first single-user job-search workbench), adds the milestone plan for migrating off Supabase/Express to a Loom Go backend on embedded SurrealDB, and lands the Rust FFI persistence spike that the plan depends on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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9470452d

Add Luke local-first migration plan and persistence spike

CaliLuke

2026-05-06

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Reframes the repo as Luke (a local-first single-user job-search workbench),
adds the milestone plan for migrating off Supabase/Express to a Loom Go
backend on embedded SurrealDB, and lands the Rust FFI persistence spike
that the plan depends on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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