diff --git a/app/components/WeeklyEmailPreview.vue b/app/components/WeeklyEmailPreview.vue
index c11dc4b6..e2073b1a 100644
--- a/app/components/WeeklyEmailPreview.vue
+++ b/app/components/WeeklyEmailPreview.vue
@@ -1,20 +1,15 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
 /**
- * The digest, shown rather than described.
- *
- * The card is the real email, server-rendered through the same `renderWeekly`
- * the Monday send uses, so the homepage cannot claim something the email does
- * not do. It carries the current week's trending rows and no watched section,
- * because an anonymous visitor watches nothing and inventing one would put
- * fabricated commits against real people's repositories.
+ * A digest example rendered from real public source changes.
+ * Personal subscriptions never enter the anonymous preview.
  */
 
-import type { WeeklyDemoResponse } from '~~/server/api/weekly/demo.get'
+import type { DigestDemoResponse } from '#layers/identity/server/api/digest/demo.get'
 
 // A failed demo costs the section its picture, never its copy or its CTA:
 // `data` stays null on error and `hasDemo` gates the whole frame.
-const { data: demo } = await useFetch<WeeklyDemoResponse>('/api/weekly/demo', {
-  key: 'home-weekly-demo-v1',
+const { data: demo } = await useFetch<DigestDemoResponse>('/api/digest/demo', {
+  key: 'home-digest-demo-v1',
 })
 
 const hasDemo = computed(() => !!demo.value?.card && (demo.value?.rowCount ?? 0) > 0)
@@ -38,7 +33,7 @@ const card = computed(() =>
   -->
   <div v-if="hasDemo" class="home-weekly-demo">
     <p class="data-label">
-      In your inbox
+      Example digest · real source changes
     </p>
     <div class="home-weekly-frame" aria-hidden="true" inert>
       <!-- eslint-disable-next-line vue/no-v-html -->
diff --git a/app/pages/index.vue b/app/pages/index.vue
index 64051fc1..7740e4f9 100644
--- a/app/pages/index.vue
+++ b/app/pages/index.vue
@@ -580,9 +580,9 @@ function recentUpdateDescription(item: RecentUpdateCard): string {
                 class="min-h-11 justify-center"
               />
               <UButton
-                to="/weekly/preview"
+                to="/digest/preview"
                 external
-                label="See this week's digest"
+                label="See an example digest"
                 color="neutral"
                 variant="outline"
                 trailing-icon="i-lucide-arrow-up-right"
diff --git a/layers/identity/server/api/digest/demo.get.ts b/layers/identity/server/api/digest/demo.get.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..499593c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/identity/server/api/digest/demo.get.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import { defineApiHandler } from '#shared/server/handler'
+import {
+  loadPublicDigestChanges,
+  publicDigestSkillSchema,
+  publicDigestUpdatesSchema,
+} from '../../utils/public-digest'
+import { renderWeekly } from '../../utils/weekly-template'
+
+/** A sample watch list built from real public changes, never personal subscriptions. */
+export interface DigestDemoResponse {
+  card: { light: string, dark: string }
+  html: string
+  subject: string
+  windowEnd: number
+  rowCount: number
+}
+
+export default defineCachedEventHandler(defineApiHandler({ handler: async () => {
+  const windowEnd = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)
+  const windowStart = windowEnd - 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
+  const changes = await loadPublicDigestChanges({
+    windowStart,
+    windowEnd,
+    loadUpdates: async () => publicDigestUpdatesSchema.parse(await $fetch('/api/feed/recent-updates')),
+    loadSkill: async item => publicDigestSkillSchema.parse(await $fetch(
+      `/api/v1/skills/${encodeURIComponent(item.owner)}/${encodeURIComponent(item.repo)}/${encodeURIComponent(item.name)}`,
+    )),
+  })
+  return { changes, windowStart, windowEnd }
+}, presenter: ({ changes, windowStart, windowEnd }): DigestDemoResponse => {
+  const render = (theme: 'light' | 'dark') => renderWeekly({
+    edition: 'digest',
+    changeSource: 'watches',
+    theme,
+    login: null,
+    windowStart,
+    windowEnd,
+    likedChanges: changes,
+    likedOverflow: 0,
+    trackedCount: changes.length,
+    trending: [],
+    siteUrl: 'https://skilld.dev',
+    settingsUrl: 'https://skilld.dev/me',
+    unsubscribeUrl: 'https://skilld.dev/me',
+  })
+  const light = render('light')
+  return {
+    card: { light: light.card, dark: render('dark').card },
+    html: light.html,
+    subject: light.subject,
+    windowEnd,
+    rowCount: changes.length,
+  }
+} }), { maxAge: 3600, swr: true, name: 'public-digest-demo-v1' })
diff --git a/layers/identity/server/routes/digest/preview.get.ts b/layers/identity/server/routes/digest/preview.get.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68c8c727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/identity/server/routes/digest/preview.get.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+export default defineCachedEventHandler(async (event) => {
+  const demo = await $fetch<{ html: string }>('/api/digest/demo')
+  setHeader(event, 'content-type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')
+  setHeader(event, 'x-robots-tag', 'noindex, follow')
+  return demo.html
+}, { maxAge: 3600, swr: true, name: 'public-digest-preview-v1' })
diff --git a/layers/identity/server/utils/digest-template.ts b/layers/identity/server/utils/digest-template.ts
index 5fec4193..5d8452db 100644
--- a/layers/identity/server/utils/digest-template.ts
+++ b/layers/identity/server/utils/digest-template.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ export function renderDigest(input: DigestRenderInput): DigestRender {
 
   return renderWeekly({
     edition: 'digest',
+    changeSource: 'watches',
     recipientName: input.recipientName ?? null,
     countClicks: input.countClicks ?? false,
     windowStart: input.windowStart,
diff --git a/layers/identity/server/utils/public-digest.ts b/layers/identity/server/utils/public-digest.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e099e55f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/identity/server/utils/public-digest.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import type { WeeklyLikedChange } from './weekly-template'
+import { z } from 'zod'
+
+const updateSchema = z.discriminatedUnion('kind', [
+  z.object({
+    kind: z.literal('skill'),
+    owner: z.string(),
+    repo: z.string(),
+    name: z.string(),
+    occurredAt: z.number(),
+    changeSummary: z.string().nullable(),
+  }),
+  z.object({ kind: z.literal('repo') }),
+])
+
+export const publicDigestUpdatesSchema = z.object({ items: z.array(updateSchema) })
+export const publicDigestSkillSchema = z.object({
+  description: z.string().nullable(),
+  sourceUrl: z.string().url(),
+  sourceGone: z.boolean(),
+  sourceCommit: z.string().nullable(),
+})
+
+type PublicDigestUpdate = Extract<z.infer<typeof updateSchema>, { kind: 'skill' }>
+
+export interface PublicDigestDependencies {
+  windowStart: number
+  windowEnd: number
+  loadUpdates: () => Promise<z.infer<typeof publicDigestUpdatesSchema>>
+  loadSkill: (update: PublicDigestUpdate) => Promise<z.infer<typeof publicDigestSkillSchema>>
+}
+
+/** Public changes only. Never read an account's watches for an anonymous example. */
+export async function loadPublicDigestChanges(deps: PublicDigestDependencies): Promise<WeeklyLikedChange[]> {
+  const updates = await deps.loadUpdates()
+  const recent = updates.items.filter((item): item is PublicDigestUpdate =>
+    item.kind === 'skill'
+    && item.occurredAt >= deps.windowStart
+    && item.occurredAt <= deps.windowEnd,
+  ).slice(0, 5)
+  const changes = await Promise.all(recent.map(async (item): Promise<WeeklyLikedChange | null> => {
+    const skill = await deps.loadSkill(item)
+    if (skill.sourceGone)
+      return null
+    return {
+      owner: item.owner,
+      repo: item.repo,
+      name: item.name,
+      slug: item.name,
+      description: skill.description,
+      changeCount: 1,
+      changedAt: item.occurredAt,
+      commitMessages: item.changeSummary ? [item.changeSummary] : [],
+      sourceUrl: skill.sourceUrl,
+      // Feed hashes identify blobs. The detail API identifies revision commits.
+      changeUrl: skill.sourceCommit
+        ? `https://github.com/${encodeURIComponent(item.owner)}/${encodeURIComponent(item.repo)}/commit/${encodeURIComponent(skill.sourceCommit)}`
+        : skill.sourceUrl.replace('/blob/', '/commits/'),
+    }
+  }))
+  return changes.filter((item): item is WeeklyLikedChange => item !== null)
+}
diff --git a/layers/identity/server/utils/weekly-template.ts b/layers/identity/server/utils/weekly-template.ts
index 1d9fd6c8..778d1ff7 100644
--- a/layers/identity/server/utils/weekly-template.ts
+++ b/layers/identity/server/utils/weekly-template.ts
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ export interface WeeklyLikedChange {
 export interface WeeklyRenderInput {
   /** Product label. The default keeps the public weekly preview unchanged. */
   edition?: 'weekly' | 'digest'
+  /** Watched Repositories are separate from liked Skills. */
+  changeSource?: 'likes' | 'watches'
   /**
    * Who it is addressed to, or null when nobody.
    *
@@ -578,6 +580,8 @@ function subjectFor(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
  * subject did not.
  */
 function preheader(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
+  if (input.changeSource === 'watches')
+    return 'Source changes from the repos you watch.'
   const trendingNames = nameList(input.trending.map(skill => skill.canonicalName), 0)
   if ((input.edition ?? 'weekly') === 'weekly') {
     return input.trending.length
@@ -598,6 +602,8 @@ function preheader(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
 }
 
 function greeting(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
+  if (input.changeSource === 'watches')
+    return input.likedChanges.length ? 'Source files changed in the repos you watch.' : 'No source changes this week.'
   if ((input.edition ?? 'weekly') === 'weekly')
     return 'Here are this week’s trending Skills.'
   const liked = input.likedChanges.length + input.likedOverflow
@@ -638,6 +644,7 @@ export function renderWeekly(input: WeeklyRenderInput): WeeklyRender {
   const subject = subjectFor(input)
   const edition = input.edition ?? 'weekly'
   const trendsOnly = edition === 'weekly'
+  const changeLabel = input.changeSource === 'watches' ? 'Repos you watch' : 'Skills you like'
   const empty = !input.likedChanges.length && !input.trackedCount && !input.trending.length
 
   // Only the HTML is counted. Plain-text clients show the raw URL and often
@@ -675,7 +682,7 @@ export function renderWeekly(input: WeeklyRenderInput): WeeklyRender {
 
   const overflowRow = input.likedOverflow
     ? `<tr><td class="weekly-border" style="padding:12px 0 0;border-top:1px solid ${t.border};font-family:${MONO};font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:${t.muted};">
-         <a href="${esc(track(`${input.siteUrl}/me/likes`, 'overflow'))}" style="display:inline-block;padding:12px 0;color:${t.muted};text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px;">+${input.likedOverflow} more ${plural(input.likedOverflow, 'Skill', 'Skills')} you like were updated</a>
+         <a href="${esc(track(input.changeSource === 'watches' ? input.settingsUrl : `${input.siteUrl}/me/likes`, 'overflow'))}" style="display:inline-block;padding:12px 0;color:${t.muted};text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px;">+${input.likedOverflow} more ${plural(input.likedOverflow, 'Skill', 'Skills')} ${input.changeSource === 'watches' ? 'from repos you watch' : 'you like'} were updated</a>
        </td></tr>`
     : ''
 
@@ -713,11 +720,11 @@ export function renderWeekly(input: WeeklyRenderInput): WeeklyRender {
       : `<tr><td class="weekly-border" style="padding:22px 0 4px;margin-top:16px;border-top:1px solid ${t.border};font-family:${SANS};font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:${t.body};">No new trending Skills this week.</td></tr>`
     : empty
       ? `<tr><td class="weekly-border" style="padding:22px 0 4px;margin-top:16px;border-top:1px solid ${t.border};font-family:${SANS};font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:${t.body};">
-         Like a few Skills and they will show up here the week they change.
+         ${input.changeSource === 'watches' ? 'Watch a repo to see its Skill changes here.' : 'Like a few Skills and they will show up here the week they change.'}
          <a href="${esc(track(`${input.siteUrl}/skills`, 'cta'))}" style="display:inline-block;padding:12px 0;line-height:20px;color:${t.accent};text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px;">Browse the registry</a>.
        </td></tr>`
       : `${input.likedChanges.length || input.trackedCount
-        ? `${sectionLabel(t, 'Skills you like')}${likedRows}${overflowRow}${quietRow}`
+        ? `${sectionLabel(t, changeLabel)}${likedRows}${overflowRow}${quietRow}`
         : ''}${input.trending.length
         ? `${sectionLabel(t, 'Trending this week')}${trendingRows}${likePrompt}`
         : ''}`
@@ -792,6 +799,7 @@ export function renderWeekly(input: WeeklyRenderInput): WeeklyRender {
 export function renderWeeklyText(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
   const now = input.windowEnd
   const trendsOnly = (input.edition ?? 'weekly') === 'weekly'
+  const changeLabel = input.changeSource === 'watches' ? 'REPOS YOU WATCH' : 'SKILLS YOU LIKE'
   const lines: string[] = [
     `skilld ${input.edition ?? 'weekly'}  ${formatWindow(input.windowStart, input.windowEnd)}`,
     '',
@@ -800,10 +808,10 @@ export function renderWeeklyText(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
   ]
 
   if (!trendsOnly && !input.likedChanges.length && input.trackedCount)
-    lines.push('', 'SKILLS YOU LIKE', '', trackedLine(input.trackedCount))
+    lines.push('', changeLabel, '', trackedLine(input.trackedCount))
 
   if (!trendsOnly && input.likedChanges.length) {
-    lines.push('', 'SKILLS YOU LIKE', '')
+    lines.push('', changeLabel, '')
     for (const change of input.likedChanges) {
       lines.push(`- ${change.owner}/${change.repo} ${change.name}`)
       const subjects = commitSubjects(change.commitMessages)
@@ -821,8 +829,11 @@ export function renderWeeklyText(input: WeeklyRenderInput): string {
       lines.push(`  Source: ${change.sourceUrl ?? skillUrl(input.siteUrl, change)}`)
       lines.push('')
     }
-    if (input.likedOverflow)
-      lines.push(`+${input.likedOverflow} more you like were updated: ${input.siteUrl}/me/likes`, '')
+    if (input.likedOverflow) {
+      lines.push(input.changeSource === 'watches'
+        ? `+${input.likedOverflow} more from repos you watch were updated: ${input.settingsUrl}`
+        : `+${input.likedOverflow} more you like were updated: ${input.siteUrl}/me/likes`, '')
+    }
   }
 
   if (input.trending.length) {
diff --git a/test/unit/digest-template.test.ts b/test/unit/digest-template.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93bbced6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/digest-template.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { renderDigest } from '../../layers/identity/server/utils/digest-template'
+
+describe('watched Repository digest', () => {
+  it('describes watched source changes in HTML and plain text', () => {
+    const result = renderDigest({
+      login: 'example',
+      windowStart: 90,
+      windowEnd: 110,
+      unsubscribeUrl: 'https://skilld.dev/me',
+      entries: [{
+        owner: 'example',
+        repo: 'skills',
+        skillNames: ['review'],
+        changeCount: 1,
+        skills: [{ name: 'review', description: null, changeCount: 1, changedAt: 100, commitMessages: ['Add keyboard checks'], sourceUrl: 'https://github.com/example/skills/blob/main/review/SKILL.md', changeUrl: 'https://github.com/example/skills/commit/abc' }],
+      }],
+    })
+    for (const output of [result.html, result.text]) {
+      expect(output).toContain('Add keyboard checks')
+      expect(output).toContain('repos you watch')
+      expect(output).not.toContain('Skills you like')
+      expect(output).not.toContain('plus trending Skills')
+    }
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/unit/email-clicks.test.ts b/test/unit/email-clicks.test.ts
index 394021d5..12871c8b 100644
--- a/test/unit/email-clicks.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/email-clicks.test.ts
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ describe('counted email links', () => {
     expect(links.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
     expect(links.map(String)).toEqual(counted(digest('bo').html).map(String))
     expect(new Set(links.map(url => url.pathname))).toEqual(new Set(['/api/e/digest']))
-    expect(links.map(url => url.searchParams.get('to'))).toContain('/me/likes')
+    expect(links.map(url => url.searchParams.get('to'))).toContain('/me')
+    expect(links.map(url => url.searchParams.get('to'))).not.toContain('/me/likes')
   })
 
   it('leaves previews uncounted', () => {
diff --git a/test/unit/public-digest.test.ts b/test/unit/public-digest.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1a502488
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/public-digest.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { loadPublicDigestChanges } from '../../layers/identity/server/utils/public-digest'
+
+describe('public digest example', () => {
+  const update = {
+    kind: 'skill' as const,
+    owner: 'example',
+    repo: 'skills',
+    name: 'review',
+    occurredAt: 100,
+    sha: 'abc',
+    changeSummary: 'Add keyboard checks',
+  }
+  const skill = { description: 'Review interfaces', sourceUrl: 'https://github.com/example/skills/blob/main/review/SKILL.md', sourceGone: false, sourceCommit: 'def' }
+
+  it('shows real source changes without account or trending data', async () => {
+    const result = await loadPublicDigestChanges({
+      windowStart: 90,
+      windowEnd: 110,
+      loadUpdates: async () => ({ items: [update] }),
+      loadSkill: async () => skill,
+    })
+    expect(result).toEqual([{
+      owner: 'example',
+      repo: 'skills',
+      name: 'review',
+      slug: 'review',
+      description: 'Review interfaces',
+      changeCount: 1,
+      changedAt: 100,
+      commitMessages: ['Add keyboard checks'],
+      sourceUrl: skill.sourceUrl,
+      changeUrl: 'https://github.com/example/skills/commit/def',
+    }])
+  })
+
+  it('uses file history when no revision commit is available', async () => {
+    const result = await loadPublicDigestChanges({
+      windowStart: 90,
+      windowEnd: 110,
+      loadUpdates: async () => ({ items: [update] }),
+      loadSkill: async () => ({ ...skill, sourceCommit: null }),
+    })
+    expect(result[0]?.changeUrl).toBe('https://github.com/example/skills/commits/main/review/SKILL.md')
+  })
+
+  it('omits removed sources and changes outside the example window', async () => {
+    const calls: string[] = []
+    const result = await loadPublicDigestChanges({
+      windowStart: 90,
+      windowEnd: 110,
+      loadUpdates: async () => ({ items: [
+        { ...update, occurredAt: 80 },
+        { ...update, occurredAt: 120 },
+        update,
+        { kind: 'repo' as const },
+      ] }),
+      loadSkill: async (item) => {
+        calls.push(item.name)
+        return { ...skill, sourceGone: true }
+      },
+    })
+    expect(result).toEqual([])
+    expect(calls).toEqual(['review'])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/unit/weekly-email-preview-inert.test.ts b/test/unit/weekly-email-preview-inert.test.ts
index 7492af0c..6b4043ff 100644
--- a/test/unit/weekly-email-preview-inert.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/weekly-email-preview-inert.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import WeeklyEmailPreview from '../../app/components/WeeklyEmailPreview.vue'
 
 const CARD = '<table><tr><td><a href="https://skilld.dev/me">Settings</a></td></tr></table>'
 
-registerEndpoint('/api/weekly/demo', () => ({
+registerEndpoint('/api/digest/demo', () => ({
   card: { light: CARD, dark: CARD },
   rowCount: 3,
 }))