beniauer gives Michi a mascot and a portfolio pitch

This fork isn't chasing a product roadmap - it's a showcase, and the new branding makes that explicit.

brandingchat-ui

beniauer has reworked this fork around presentation rather than features. The project's front page now reads like a personal portfolio pitch - a tour of features, architecture, and security posture - fronted by a custom mascot character.

That mascot isn't just a logo on a page. It shows up as the face of the product: on the login and signup screens, and as the assistant's avatar inside the chat itself. So the cosmetic work does reach the actual user-facing experience, even if nothing underneath changed. The honest read is that this is branding and framing, not new capability - a sign that the fork exists to demonstrate skill, not to ship a maintained legal-AI product.

So what Worth a glance if you're sizing up which Michi forks are living products versus portfolio demos - this one is squarely the latter.

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SHA Subject Author Date
180b1b67 docs: portfolio README and ignore .bak files Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub
Rewrite the README with features, tech stack, architecture, and a security
overview. Ignore *.bak editor backups.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
86fdb500 docs: add Michi mascot as README hero Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
5f3d7eb8 feat: MichiMascot component on login, signup, and chat avatar Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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