Material Workbench v0.2.1

Material Workbench v0.2.1 is a data-integrity patch release.

Fixed:

• Deleting a media-purpose category now affects only authoritative assets of the selected media type.
• Same-named categories and assignments in other media types remain intact.
• Configured mounted documents follow the same category lifecycle as other editable documents.
• Category deletion fails closed while the library is refreshing or when the catalogue cannot be validated.
• Untyped or ambiguous historical assignments are preserved rather than guessed.

Documentation:

• Added Product Vision, Roadmap, and Capability Status documents.
• Clarified that Premiere is the first guarded client boundary, not the product boundary; Blender, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut/Jianying, and first-class 3D assets remain exploration areas.
• Planned and exploring items are not shipped features.

Upgrade note:

• v0.2.1 prevents future cross-media logical-category loss but cannot infer assignments that may already have been cleared by v0.2.0. If you deleted a category that shared its name with another media type, inspect your automatic metadata backups.
• This bug did not move, rename, overwrite, or delete media files.
• The optional external Adobe host bridge remains unbundled.

Verification:

• GitHub Actions CI 31839795367 passed on Python 3.11 and 3.13.
• Public release suite: 555 Python tests, 10 Node bridge tests, and synthetic first-run smoke.

Material Workbench v0.2.0

Highlights

• Separates required project/purpose organization from optional search-metadata enhancement.
• Adds editable project templates, context-preserving batch management, and project-category controls in asset preview.
• Redesigns material management with clearer information layers, fixed pagination, continuous cross-page preview, and independently expandable filter domains.
• Replaces the legacy SREF entry with a native inspiration-card library for cases, recipes, and knowledge.
• Makes Desktop intake copy-first by default, with explicit move mode, exact-content repeat protection, and clear relinking warnings.

Safety

Material Workbench remains local-first and Agent-assisted rather than Agent-dependent. This release contains no runtime library indexes, user metadata, Adobe dependency ledger, transaction journal, machine-local configuration, or private media.

Validation

• Windows CI: Python 3.11 and 3.13
• Public test suite: 551 Python tests
• Adobe bridge contract: 10 Node tests
• JavaScript syntax and synthetic first-run smoke: passed

See CHANGELOG.md for the complete change list.

Material Workbench v0.1.0

Material Workbench is a local-first Windows media workbench for creative production.

Highlights:

• Browse and organize video, image, audio, and document assets across projects.
• Transactional project-media migration and exact-duplicate cleanup with preview, confirmation, journaling, and recovery safeguards.
• Optional guarded Premiere Pro import that keeps source media in place and fails closed when the active project cannot be verified.
• Portable local configuration, synthetic demo library, and documented first-run workflow.

Safety and validation:

• The public repository contains no runtime library data, thumbnails, user annotations, local configuration, bridge tokens, or real project files.
• 479 Python tests and 10 Node bridge contract tests pass locally.
• GitHub Actions validates Python 3.11 and 3.13, JavaScript syntax, Node bridge contracts, and a synthetic first-run scan.
• The external Adobe bridge is optional and is not distributed by this repository.

See CHANGELOG.md and docs/data-safety.md for details.