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+"@cloudflare/workers-shared": minor
+"wrangler": minor
+---
+
+feat: Create very basic Asset Server Worker and plumb it into `wrangler dev`
+
+These changes do the ground work needed in order to add Assets support for Workers in `wrangler dev`. They introduce the following components, and the following conceptual "client pipeline":
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+                   |
+							wrangler dev
+                   |              workerd
++------------------+---------------------+
+|                  |                     |
+|      +-----------v--------------+      |
+|      |                          |      |
+|      |     NOOP Entry Worker    |      |
+|      |                          |      |
+|      +------------+-------------+      |
+|                   |                    |
+|           env.ASSET_SERVER             |
+|                   |                    |
+|      +------------v-------------+      |
+|      |                          |      |
+|      |    Asset Server Worker   |      |
+|      |                          |      |
+|      +------------+-------------+      |
+|                   |                    |
++-------------------+--------------------+
+                    |
+                    v
+    	"Hello world from Asset Server"
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+
+Based on the above architectural diagram, this body of work implements the following:
+
+- it creates a new package called `workers-shared` that hosts the `Asset Server Worker`, and the `Router Worker`in the future
+- it scaffolds the `Asset Server Worker` in some very basic form, with basic configuration. Further behaviour implementation will follow in a subsequent PR
+- it does the ground work of plumbing ASW into Miniflare