Prepare an initial owner environment

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Make first entry useful and recognizable without requiring complete personalization or silently promoting guesses into owner-confirmed truth.
Meaningful outcome: A bounded environment-preparation package and report identify what was applied, defaulted, inferred, omitted, or left for later review.
Boundaries — includes: setup-depth choice, presentation preferences, candidate roles and modes, priorities, relevant tools, starter surfaces, source provenance, defaults, readiness, and preparation report.
Boundaries — excludes: creating external connections or credentials, granting access, first-entry authorization, full long-term personalization, and treating inferred setup as confirmed owner knowledge.
Terms and concepts: An initial environment is a revisable starting configuration, not a complete or permanent model of the owner.

Actor: The owner or an authorized onboarding/preparation agent.
Command / intent: Build a viable first-use environment from the available onboarding inputs.
Current state: Owner-provided responses, supported configuration targets, applicable defaults, and destination owner/Core context exist.
Policies / invariants: Explicit answers, parsed values, inferences, and defaults remain distinguishable; sparse optional answers do not block a safe minimum; no unsupported role, mode, connection, or authority is invented; every prepared value remains revisable.
Transition: Validate and map inputs, apply allowed defaults, create or propose supported initial settings, and produce readiness and exception evidence.
Result: A ready, partially ready, blocked, or failed preparation package with an inspectable report.
Events / effects: May create provisional or owner-authored configuration through the corresponding domain capabilities and enable first-entry authorization.
Unknowns: The minimum viable preparation set varies by implementation and owner profile.

Preparation must not silently convert weak inference into owner-confirmed identity, role, mode, preference, or authority.
Missing optional personalization must be represented as missing or defaulted rather than fabricated.

Prefer a small coherent environment with visible provenance over broad speculative personalization.

Purpose: Let the owner understand and revise what has been prepared.
Trigger: Preparation reaches a ready or partially ready state.
Audience: The onboarding owner.
Required meaning: Applied owner choices, defaults, provisional values, omitted items, and available revision actions.
Representative example text: Example; illustrative, not shipped copy: “Your first environment is ready with the choices you provided; two optional areas remain unset.”
Possible realizations: pre-entry summary, first-entry panel, downloadable setup record, or owner update.

Which prepared settings should be durable Core state versus application-local presentation remains profile-specific.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Initial environment preparation is a bounded, revisable outcome that distinguishes owner input, defaults, and inference.	rule/invariant	sourced	D07 and D09.