⚖️Mike
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OSS Legal AI Platform
⭐ Popular: 4k stars, gaining about 37 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Mike is an AGPL-3.0, self-hostable AI legal document assistant, giving legal professionals an open alternative to closed SaaS tools where documents and API keys stay on their own instance.
- CourtListener integration adds US case law citation verification, case fetching, and opinion search, addressing the hallucinated-citation problem by checking references against real case law.
- Users bring their own keys for Anthropic, Google Gemini, or OpenAI, set instance-wide or per user, so teams control model choice and cost without a vendor lock-in.
under the hood
- Written almost entirely in TypeScript, with a Next.js frontend and an Express backend backed by Supabase for Postgres and Auth.
- Files are held in Cloudflare R2 or S3-compatible object storage, with DOC and DOCX converted to PDF via LibreOffice for document processing and chat.
- The Postgres schema uses incremental migrations, and account management encrypts per-user API keys.
Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources
star history
- PR#33 2k 2026-05-06
- now 4k + 2k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Output and attention are roughly in balance.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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