A Deliberately Limited Customer Core Preview

Workbench now has a Customer Core preview that can be built and exercised locally. It explores how a safer, smaller package could present common Workbench capabilities without carrying Peter's projects, credentials, prompts, transcripts, generated research, model files, or development caches along for the outing.

The preview uses an explicit list of admitted files, verifies package identity against the current local source, checks the host before installation, and installs only into a disposable target. That verification is exact local lineage, not a publisher signature or claim of official public origin. Its current Doctor checks installed file identity. It does not claim that every optional service, network, database, or model is healthy, and proposed repairs do not apply themselves.

For example, a downloaded preview archive can be verified, installed into a temporary location, and checked without modifying the active Workbench. A missing dependency is reported with its limitation or fallback rather than being silently installed with a flourish and a small invoice from the Ministry of Surprises.

This is a local preview, not a public software release. Public redistribution remains blocked until Peter deliberately chooses a distribution licence and separately authorizes release. Optional components and independent project extensions remain separate.