diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6fec260..f708490 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,12 +51,14 @@ A shape exports `pub fn layout(ctx: ?*anyopaque, f: *Layout) !dvui.App.Result` a
   pointer with its own GPU program (`core.programs`). It also builds alone as a dylib
   (`cd plugins/shader && zig build`).
 
-`build.zig` hands both to fizzy with `fizzy.buildApp`; they are linked in and registered like
-fizzy's own.
+`build.zig` hands both to fizzy with `fizzy.buildApp`, in one list with the fizzy plugins the app
+links (`fizzy.plugins.text`, or `fizzy.plugins.all`), and every one is linked in and registered
+the same way. The minimal shape links only workbench and text; the others link all of fizzy's.
+workbench is required for now.
 
 ## Your own app
 
 `build.zig` is the whole recipe: depend on fizzy (`build.zig.zon`), call `b.dependency("fizzy",
 …)` with your app's name, display name, bundle id, `.@"defer-app" = true` and your shape as
-`app-layout`, then `fizzy.buildApp` with the plugins you bundle. Pin fizzy by commit, as this
+`app-layout`, then `fizzy.buildApp` with every plugin you link, fizzy's among them. Pin fizzy by commit, as this
 repo does.
diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index 4ada8ff..400418a 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -58,10 +58,16 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) !void {
     });
     const hello = b.dependency("hello", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
     const shader = b.dependency("shader", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
-    try fizzy.buildApp(fizzy_dep, &.{
+    // Fizzy's own plugins are entries in the list like any other. The minimal shape's one
+    // region takes documents, so it links the two that open them; the others link all of fizzy's.
+    const fizzys: []const fizzy.BundledPlugin = switch (shape) {
+        .minimal => &.{ fizzy.plugins.workbench, fizzy.plugins.text },
+        .studio, .endless => &fizzy.plugins.all,
+    };
+    try fizzy.buildApp(fizzy_dep, try std.mem.concat(b.allocator, fizzy.BundledPlugin, &.{ fizzys, &.{
         .{ .name = "hello", .module = hello.module("plugin") },
         .{ .name = "shader", .module = shader.module("plugin") },
-    });
+    } }));
 
     const exe = fizzy_dep.artifact(name);
     b.installArtifact(exe);