PC Workman is a Windows system monitor with a fully offline AI assistant, built solo, in public, on a 2014 laptop between warehouse and welding shifts. This is the story of the week it reached the Microsoft Store, and the three days after, when a tester's screenshot showed the overlay displaying nothing but dashes. Getting approved turned out to be the easy part. Making it actually work on a machine that wasn't mine surfaced three real failures: a Store sandbox that made every write silently fai...