foolish-bandit renames Mike to Gary, but only skin-deep

A fresh fork swaps every visible "Mike" for "Gary" - while the plumbing underneath still answers to its old name.

brandinginfrastructure

This is the founding move of foolish-bandit's fork: rename the product. Everywhere a user can see it, "Mike" becomes "Gary." The assistant now introduces itself as Gary in chat, the sidebar and page titles read Gary, and - a nice touch for litigators - tracked-changes edits exported to Word show "Gary" as the author in the Review pane.

What hasn't changed is the machinery behind the curtain. Database tables, storage conventions, and internal naming all still use Mike's original scheme. The team kept the change deliberately shallow to avoid breaking anything, which is sensible - but anyone planning to actually deploy this should know the rebrand is cosmetic. You'll hit a few spots where the old name is baked into infrastructure defaults and have to decide whether to live with it or override at setup.

So what If you're evaluating Gary as a white-label starting point, the public face is clean - just budget time for the back-end rename the team left for later.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`dae6f594`	Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS	Claude	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
commit body Updates user-visible branding (HTML titles, sidebar/logo text, AI system prompts, DOCX tracked-changes author, signup links, placeholder copy) and renames the frontend/backend npm packages to gary and gary-backend. Default R2 bucket name in env example and storage.ts fallbacks changes from "mike" to "gary". Internal type names (MikeDocument, MikeIcon, mikeApi module, drag/drop MIME types, localStorage key, change-id prefix) are intentionally left unchanged to keep this PR small; they can be renamed in a follow-up. https://claude.ai/code/session_01McEfVnpbGdMs5TgeTM7P3R

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dae6f594

Rebrand user-facing copy from Mike/MikeOSS to Gary/GaryOSS

Claude

2026-05-07

↗ GitHub

commit body

Updates user-visible branding (HTML titles, sidebar/logo text, AI
system prompts, DOCX tracked-changes author, signup links, placeholder
copy) and renames the frontend/backend npm packages to gary and
gary-backend. Default R2 bucket name in env example and storage.ts
fallbacks changes from "mike" to "gary". Internal type names
(MikeDocument, MikeIcon, mikeApi module, drag/drop MIME types,
localStorage key, change-id prefix) are intentionally left unchanged
to keep this PR small; they can be renamed in a follow-up.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01McEfVnpbGdMs5TgeTM7P3R

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