SpringBrand 1.2.1 — GTM and First-use Workflows

Stable release of SpringBrand's GTM and first-use workflow improvements.

• Add the fifth Canonical Skill, springbrand-gtm, for substantive marketing and growth requests, with existing Platform, Action API and Connector domain routing.
• Improve English keyword discovery while retaining structured task requirements and supported discovery/execution associations.
• Show first-install Welcome guidance and four example tasks at the first setup handoff, including incomplete setup; ordinary updates do not repeat Welcome.
• Automatically add clearly suitable, verified-free Plugins and continue after successful addition. Paid/unknown pricing, downstream API costs and host approvals retain their rules.
• Discover authorized GitHub, Gmail and Google Search Console operations from runtime inventory.
• Preserve MCP App UI image presentation, Skill version synchronization and synchronized distribution mirrors.

Production identity: springbrand / SpringBrand, version 1.2.1, MCP https://connector.springbrand.ai/mcp. This release contains no development MCP identity in its shipping manifests.

Validation: all 19 local test/validation scripts passed, including production identity and WorkBuddy release packaging. PR CI passed, including package-contract and native Codex CLI installation. Live provider availability, desktop OAuth and end-to-end GTM/Welcome/free-Plugin task behavior are not claimed verified by these checks. No backend service deployment is included.

WorkBuddy immutable distribution has been published and verified:

• WorkBuddy ZIP
• Package manifest
• ZIP SHA-256: 07573fc8af7220276ba311bbb49a291d54aac5de6535b5afc8a38ec3230627b2
• Production installation guide

Isolated WorkBuddy/macOS native install, enable, version and asset-hash verification, disable, uninstall and marketplace removal passed with GitHub and direct outbound bypass blocked. Existing pinned installations do not update automatically. The moving production-channel alias remains disabled.

Production tag CI passed, including native Codex CLI installation. R2 publication and public-byte verification passed.

Matching development test release: v1.2.1-dev.1, generated directly from this tag on an isolated branch and connected exclusively to the development MCP gateway.

Production installation links now select v1.2.1 via PR #98. Public installation-document publication and byte verification passed; main retains production identity. Both release tags remain unchanged.