diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 89af478..64af56b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ jobs:
           RELEASE_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/gkit-release
           RELEASE_ID: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_id }}
         run: |
-          for name in "gkit-$VERSION.tgz" gkit.tgz SHA256SUMS; do
+          for name in "gkit-$VERSION.tgz" gkit.tgz gkit SHA256SUMS; do
             path="$RELEASE_DIR/$name"
             local_digest="sha256:$(sha256sum "$path" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
             asset_json=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/releases/$RELEASE_ID" \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ba39cd0..22072a2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ install command.
 
 ## Install
 
+Team machines install the standalone bundle (the bare `gkit` release asset, one executable JS file; embedded manifests and docs unpack to `~/.cache/gkit/assets/`) into `~/.local/bin` via the workspace `update-local-tool` skill. Anyone else:
+
 Install the latest stable release globally:
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/packages/gkit/package.json b/packages/gkit/package.json
index 786fd0b..2dc90c1 100644
--- a/packages/gkit/package.json
+++ b/packages/gkit/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "gkit",
-  "version": "0.3.4",
+  "version": "0.3.5",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Profile-bound, agent-first growth provider CLI.",
   "bin": {
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "sideEffects": false,
   "scripts": {
     "cli": "bun run ./src/cli.ts",
-    "build": "bun build ./bin/gkit.js --target=bun --outfile=dist/gkit.js",
+    "build": "bun build ./bin/gkit.js --target=bun --minify --define GKIT_STANDALONE=true --outfile=dist/gkit.js && chmod +x dist/gkit.js",
     "check-types": "tsc --noEmit",
     "generate:dataforseo": "bun run ./scripts/generate-dataforseo.ts",
     "generate:dataforseo:check": "bun run ./scripts/generate-dataforseo.ts --check",
diff --git a/packages/gkit/scripts/verify-package-artifact.ts b/packages/gkit/scripts/verify-package-artifact.ts
index eaa844d..3aa0f62 100644
--- a/packages/gkit/scripts/verify-package-artifact.ts
+++ b/packages/gkit/scripts/verify-package-artifact.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { constants } from "node:fs";
-import { copyFile, mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { chmod, copyFile, mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { basename, join, resolve } from "node:path";
@@ -140,6 +140,27 @@ try {
     throw new Error("The installed gkit artifact could not read its provider documentation.");
   }
 
+  // The bare bundle is the team-machine install: it must run with nothing next to it.
+  const bundleDirectory = join(consumerDirectory, "standalone");
+  await mkdir(bundleDirectory, { recursive: true });
+  const bundlePath = join(bundleDirectory, "gkit");
+  await copyFile(join(packageRoot, "dist", "gkit.js"), bundlePath);
+  await chmod(bundlePath, 0o755);
+  const standaloneEnvironment = { XDG_CACHE_HOME: join(consumerDirectory, "standalone-cache") };
+  await runCommand([bundlePath, "--schema", "gsc"], bundleDirectory, standaloneEnvironment);
+  const standaloneDocs = await runCommand(
+    [bundlePath, "docs", "--provider", "gsc"],
+    bundleDirectory,
+    standaloneEnvironment,
+  );
+  const standaloneCapabilities = await readFile(
+    join(standaloneDocs.stdout.trim(), "capabilities.md"),
+    "utf8",
+  );
+  if (!standaloneCapabilities.includes("gsc.properties.list")) {
+    throw new Error("The standalone gkit bundle could not read its embedded documentation.");
+  }
+
   if (outputDirectory) {
     await writeReleaseAssets(tarballPath, packageJson.version, outputDirectory);
   }
@@ -193,12 +214,19 @@ async function writeReleaseAssets(
   const stablePath = join(destination, stableName);
   await copyFile(tarballPath, exactPath, constants.COPYFILE_EXCL);
   await copyFile(tarballPath, stablePath, constants.COPYFILE_EXCL);
+  const bundleName = "gkit";
+  const bundlePath = join(destination, bundleName);
+  await copyFile(join(packageRoot, "dist", "gkit.js"), bundlePath, constants.COPYFILE_EXCL);
+  await chmod(bundlePath, 0o755);
   const digest = createHash("sha256")
     .update(await readFile(tarballPath))
     .digest("hex");
+  const bundleDigest = createHash("sha256")
+    .update(await readFile(bundlePath))
+    .digest("hex");
   await writeFile(
     join(destination, "SHA256SUMS"),
-    `${digest}  ${exactName}\n${digest}  ${stableName}\n`,
+    `${digest}  ${exactName}\n${digest}  ${stableName}\n${bundleDigest}  ${bundleName}\n`,
     { encoding: "utf8", flag: "wx" },
   );
 }
diff --git a/packages/gkit/src/assets.embed.ts b/packages/gkit/src/assets.embed.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf12ec9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gkit/src/assets.embed.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Every runtime-read asset, inlined into the standalone bundle (bun text/json imports).
+// Keep in sync with generated/*/manifest.json and docs/providers/**; assets.test.ts fails on drift.
+
+import a0 from "../docs/providers/bing/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a1 from "../docs/providers/bing/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a2 from "../docs/providers/dataforseo/backlinks.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a3 from "../docs/providers/dataforseo/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a4 from "../docs/providers/google-ads/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a5 from "../docs/providers/google-ads/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a6 from "../docs/providers/gsc/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a7 from "../docs/providers/gsc/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a8 from "../docs/providers/hubspot/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a9 from "../docs/providers/hubspot/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a10 from "../docs/providers/pagespeed/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a11 from "../docs/providers/pagespeed/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a12 from "../docs/providers/posthog/capabilities.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a13 from "../docs/providers/posthog/inventory.md" with { type: "text" };
+import a14 from "../generated/bing/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a15 from "../generated/dataforseo/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a16 from "../generated/google-ads/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a17 from "../generated/gsc/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a18 from "../generated/hubspot/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a19 from "../generated/pagespeed/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+import a20 from "../generated/posthog/manifest.json" with { type: "json" };
+
+export const embeddedAssets: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
+  "docs/providers/bing/capabilities.md": a0,
+  "docs/providers/bing/inventory.md": a1,
+  "docs/providers/dataforseo/backlinks.md": a2,
+  "docs/providers/dataforseo/inventory.md": a3,
+  "docs/providers/google-ads/capabilities.md": a4,
+  "docs/providers/google-ads/inventory.md": a5,
+  "docs/providers/gsc/capabilities.md": a6,
+  "docs/providers/gsc/inventory.md": a7,
+  "docs/providers/hubspot/capabilities.md": a8,
+  "docs/providers/hubspot/inventory.md": a9,
+  "docs/providers/pagespeed/capabilities.md": a10,
+  "docs/providers/pagespeed/inventory.md": a11,
+  "docs/providers/posthog/capabilities.md": a12,
+  "docs/providers/posthog/inventory.md": a13,
+  "generated/bing/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a14, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/dataforseo/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a15, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/google-ads/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a16, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/gsc/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a17, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/hubspot/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a18, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/pagespeed/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a19, null, 2)}\n`,
+  "generated/posthog/manifest.json": `${JSON.stringify(a20, null, 2)}\n`,
+};
diff --git a/packages/gkit/src/assets.test.ts b/packages/gkit/src/assets.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a370bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gkit/src/assets.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+
+const root = fileURLToPath(new URL("..", import.meta.url));
+
+function walk(dir: string): string[] {
+  return readdirSync(`${root}${dir}`, { withFileTypes: true }).flatMap((entry) =>
+    entry.isDirectory() ? walk(`${dir}/${entry.name}`) : [`${dir}/${entry.name}`],
+  );
+}
+
+describe("embedded assets", () => {
+  it("cover every runtime-read manifest and provider doc", () => {
+    const onDisk = [
+      ...walk("generated").filter((path) => path.endsWith("/manifest.json")),
+      ...walk("docs/providers"),
+    ].sort();
+    // Read as text: vitest cannot import the bun text-import module itself.
+    const embedded = [...readFileSync(`${root}src/assets.embed.ts`, "utf8").matchAll(/^ {2}"([^"]+)":/gm)].map(
+      (match) => match[1],
+    );
+    expect(embedded.sort()).toEqual(onDisk);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/gkit/src/assets.ts b/packages/gkit/src/assets.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c49e49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gkit/src/assets.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import { existsSync, mkdirSync, renameSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { homedir } from "node:os";
+import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+
+// Set by `bun build --define` for the standalone release bundle (package.json `build`).
+declare const GKIT_STANDALONE: boolean | undefined;
+
+/**
+ * Root directory holding `generated/` and `docs/`.
+ *
+ * From source (and tests) that is the package root. The standalone bundle has no
+ * package root next to it, so its embedded copy is written once to a
+ * content-addressed cache directory and read from there — agents are handed real
+ * directories by `gkit docs`, and manifests keep loading from files.
+ */
+export async function resolveAssetRoot(): Promise<string> {
+  if (typeof GKIT_STANDALONE === "undefined" || !GKIT_STANDALONE) {
+    return fileURLToPath(new URL("..", import.meta.url));
+  }
+  const { embeddedAssets } = await import("./assets.embed");
+  const key = Bun.hash(JSON.stringify(embeddedAssets)).toString(36);
+  const cacheHome = process.env.XDG_CACHE_HOME || join(homedir(), ".cache");
+  const root = join(cacheHome, "gkit", "assets", key);
+  if (existsSync(join(root, ".complete"))) return root;
+
+  const staging = `${root}.tmp-${process.pid}`;
+  rmSync(staging, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  for (const [path, text] of Object.entries(embeddedAssets)) {
+    const target = join(staging, path);
+    mkdirSync(dirname(target), { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(target, text);
+  }
+  writeFileSync(join(staging, ".complete"), "");
+  try {
+    renameSync(staging, root);
+  } catch {
+    // A concurrent run won the race with identical content.
+    rmSync(staging, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+  return root;
+}
diff --git a/packages/gkit/src/cli.ts b/packages/gkit/src/cli.ts
index c4b5409..e2b9cfa 100644
--- a/packages/gkit/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/gkit/src/cli.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { resolveAssetRoot } from "./assets";
 
 import { ensureTrailingNewline, formatBareSkill } from "@celados/argc/skill";
 
@@ -41,45 +43,27 @@ import { journalSummary, needsReconciliation, operationView } from "./operations
 import { loadExecutableManifest } from "./manifest";
 import { renderGkitSchema } from "./schema";
 
-export const dataForSeoManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/dataforseo/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const bingManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/bing/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const bingDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(new URL("../docs/providers/bing", import.meta.url));
-export const dataForSeoDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../docs/providers/dataforseo", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const postHogManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/posthog/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const postHogDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../docs/providers/posthog", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const googleAdsManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/google-ads/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const googleAdsDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../docs/providers/google-ads", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const gscManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/gsc/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const gscDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(new URL("../docs/providers/gsc", import.meta.url));
-export const hubSpotManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/hubspot/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const hubSpotDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../docs/providers/hubspot", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const pageSpeedManifestPath = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../generated/pagespeed/manifest.json", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const pageSpeedDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(
-  new URL("../docs/providers/pagespeed", import.meta.url),
-);
-export const providerDocsDirectory = fileURLToPath(new URL("../docs/providers", import.meta.url));
+const assetRoot = await resolveAssetRoot();
+const manifestPathFor = (provider: string): string =>
+  join(assetRoot, "generated", provider, "manifest.json");
+const docsDirectoryFor = (provider: string): string =>
+  join(assetRoot, "docs", "providers", provider);
+
+export const dataForSeoManifestPath = manifestPathFor("dataforseo");
+export const bingManifestPath = manifestPathFor("bing");
+export const bingDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("bing");
+export const dataForSeoDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("dataforseo");
+export const postHogManifestPath = manifestPathFor("posthog");
+export const postHogDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("posthog");
+export const googleAdsManifestPath = manifestPathFor("google-ads");
+export const googleAdsDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("google-ads");
+export const gscManifestPath = manifestPathFor("gsc");
+export const gscDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("gsc");
+export const hubSpotManifestPath = manifestPathFor("hubspot");
+export const hubSpotDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("hubspot");
+export const pageSpeedManifestPath = manifestPathFor("pagespeed");
+export const pageSpeedDocsDirectory = docsDirectoryFor("pagespeed");
+export const providerDocsDirectory = join(assetRoot, "docs", "providers");
 
 type TerminalEmitter = {
   writeText(text: string): Promise<void>;