Until a stable core runtime is selected, the Guide is the front door to the small working apps already built for modeling, tensions, library work, and other capability experiments.
The Guide no longer depends on OpenClaw as the core operating environment. That path was abandoned because the maintenance burden was too high for the role it needed to play.
In the interim, the Guide becomes a lightweight portal: a coherent place to find, explain, and launch the small apps that already demonstrate pieces of the Workbench. The operating layer can change later without hiding the work that is already usable now.
The next durable runtime has not been selected. Rather than tying the Workbench to another operating environment too early, the Guide can serve as the stable surface above the experiments.
Each small app remains independently deployable and maintainable. The Guide gives users one place to understand what each tool is for, when to use it, and where to go next.
These are the current tools the Guide should make accessible first. The portal role is not to merge them prematurely; it is to help users choose the right entry point.
For now, the Guide is less runtime and more wayfinding layer. It gives the Workbench a coherent front door while the underlying operating environment remains open.
Users can find a working tool quickly, understand why that tool matters, and move from one capability to another without needing to understand the underlying technical experiments.
The Guide navigates users through TUG's four-phase process.
The next operating environment should be selected by what it lets the Workbench stop worrying about. It should make the small apps easier to run together, not harder to maintain individually.