lucianschw-dev plants an EU flag on Mike

EU-Mike isn't just a paint job - the chat box now routes through an EU-law pipeline and asks before it cites.

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Lucian Schwartz-Croft has rebranded a fork of Mike as EU-Mike: a blue EU banner with twelve stars sits at the top of every page, the colour palette shifts to EU blue, and a personal byline replaces the old footer. So far, so cosmetic.

The more interesting move is buried underneath. The chat interface no longer talks to Mike's generic chat endpoint - it's been rewired to an EU-law-specific one, and the assistant's instructions have been tightened so that when a user pastes a loose citation, the model has to surface the European case or legislation ID it thinks the user means and get a yes before fetching anything. Type an exact ID and it proceeds; describe a case in plain English and it confirms first. It's a small guardrail against the fork's biggest current weakness: you still need to know roughly what you're looking for, because there's no real search layer yet.

So what Worth a look for anyone building EU-jurisdiction legal tools - the citation-confirmation pattern is a clean, copyable answer to LLMs hallucinating case numbers.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`840135db`	Frontend EU-Mike branding + tightened EU-law system prompt	Lucian.schw	2026-05-17	↗ GitHub
commit body Frontend: - New EuBanner component (real EU flag SVG with 12 five-pointed stars on EU blue, plus 'EU-Mike' name and 'Created by Lucian Schwartz-Croft' credit) mounted at the top of every authed page - Primary color switched to EU blue (#003399) in light and dark themes - mikeApi.ts streaming chat POST routed to /eu-law-chat so the new endpoint is actually exercised by the UI - Browser tab title and OpenGraph metadata updated to 'EU-Mike' - Old fixed-position footer removed (banner replaces it) Backend: - EU_LAW_SYSTEM_PROMPT_EXTRA tightened: when the user gives a free-text citation, the LLM must show its inferred CELEX/ECLI and get user confirmation before fetching. Explicit identifiers from the user still go straight through.
`3d1289e9`	Remove website link from README	lucianschw-dev	2026-05-17	↗ GitHub
Removed website link from the README.
`ce6c70fe`	Rename project to EU-Mike and update README	lucianschw-dev	2026-05-17	↗ GitHub
Updated project description to reflect the new name and features of EU-Mike, including added EU law tools and integration with EUR-Lex.

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