diff --git a/DESIGN.md b/DESIGN.md
index 569af972..48286761 100644
--- a/DESIGN.md
+++ b/DESIGN.md
@@ -470,4 +470,4 @@ These are editorial sets, not necessarily database collections yet. If a set has
 - **A six-step lifecycle band replaces the four tiles**: under the hero, one band maps the whole product in its real order: find, run, install or fork, keep current, make, build on. The site and the CLI share one line. Each step is one link: a mono `01` marker and step name, then one sans line that opens with its pitch line where COPY.md has one. A line of stone dots joins the steps. Run, the default, carries the band's one rose dot, so no step lights rose on hover. Six columns from 1024px; below that a vertical list with the dots down the left. Keep the band no taller than the tiles it replaced: the hero and the band must fit a 1440×900 viewport. Harlan approved it on 2026-10-06.
 - **A Developers menu groups the build surfaces**: the desktop header keeps Trending Skills and Find Skills as links, and folds CLI, MCP server, SDK and Make a skill into one Developers menu, as nuxtseo.com does. The trigger is a button, so a keyboard opens the panel without leaving the page; the panel's last link reaches `/developers`. Harlan asked for this on 2026-10-06.
 - **The Developers menu is a bento**: the three ways to connect stack as compact rows, each a lucide icon tile, a name and one line. Make a skill fills the second column as the one large card, with an ember atmosphere and the File minimap in its corner. It names both routes: the guides and Skillgen. `/make-skill` is the one entry for authors and routes to either, so Skillgen has no card of its own. The mobile menu lists the same four items as a plain group. Harlan chose this over five uniform cards on 2026-10-06.
-- **One Skill card**: `SkillCard` renders every Skill embed, in three layouts. Each opens with one identity unit: the avatar beside the mono name, over a byline of author and Repository. Then come at most two lines of description and one line of facts with a dashed `run` pill. The pill is the run chip's material without `npx skilld`. Its click copies the full command, and its dot stays stone until hover, focus or copy. Rows read in three zones, who, what and the facts, and stack like a borderless card under 40rem. Compact entries drop the description. Cards show no SKILL.md icon and no heart by default: with few accounts yet, a row of zero hearts reads as an empty room. Harlan chose this from five takes, one by Fable, on 2026-10-06. It supersedes the `/skills` table and its "What it does" column. Trending and track boards render the same rows: the reason a Skill ranked fills the meta line, and the posts about it sit under its words as an aside. The home freshness ledgers and the community top Skill use compact entries. Search results keep their own rows, because they are a keyboard picker, not an embed.
+- **One Skill card**: `SkillCard` renders every Skill embed, in three layouts. Each opens with one identity unit: the avatar beside the mono name, over a byline of author and Repository. Then come at most two lines of description and one line of facts with a dashed `run` pill. The pill is the run chip's material without `npx skilld`. Its click copies the full command, and its dot stays stone until hover, focus or copy. Rows read in three zones, who, what and the facts, and stack like a borderless card under 40rem. Compact entries drop the description. Cards show no SKILL.md icon and no heart by default: with few accounts yet, a row of zero hearts reads as an empty room. Harlan chose this from five takes, one by Fable, on 2026-10-06. It supersedes the `/skills` table and its "What it does" column. Trending and track boards render the same rows: the reason a Skill ranked fills the meta line, and the posts about it sit under its words as an aside. The home freshness ledgers and the community top Skill use compact entries. Search results keep their own rows, because they are a keyboard picker, not an embed. This replaces the row layout in "Trending rows lead with the Skill", "Trending shares the /skills shell" and "Trending rows scan in one pass": posts now sit under the Skill's words, not beside it, and the dashed `run` pill replaces the full run chip. The /skills shell, the sidebar and the rank styling stand.
diff --git a/app/assets/css/main.css b/app/assets/css/main.css
index 3c9659aa..ea1e85d4 100644
--- a/app/assets/css/main.css
+++ b/app/assets/css/main.css
@@ -590,86 +590,6 @@
   border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ui-border);
 }
 
-.home-freshness-row {
-  display: grid;
-  min-width: 0;
-  grid-template-columns: auto minmax(0, 1fr) auto auto;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: 0.75rem;
-  padding-inline: 0.75rem;
-  transition: background-color 200ms ease-out;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row--primary {
-  min-block-size: 5rem;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row--secondary {
-  min-block-size: 4.5rem;
-  padding-inline: 0.5rem;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row:focus-visible {
-  z-index: 1;
-  outline: 2px solid var(--ui-color-primary-500) !important;
-  outline-offset: -3px !important;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-avatar {
-  flex: none;
-  border: 2px solid var(--ui-bg);
-  border-radius: 9999px;
-  outline: 1px solid var(--ui-border);
-  background: var(--ui-bg-muted);
-  object-fit: cover;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-avatar--primary {
-  width: 2.25rem;
-  height: 2.25rem;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-avatar--secondary {
-  width: 2rem;
-  height: 2rem;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row-title,
-.home-freshness-row-description {
-  display: block;
-  overflow: hidden;
-  text-overflow: ellipsis;
-  white-space: nowrap;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row-title {
-  font-family: var(--font-mono);
-  font-size: 0.875rem;
-  font-weight: 500;
-  line-height: 1.25rem;
-}
-
-.home-freshness-row-description {
-  margin-top: 0.125rem;
-  font-size: 0.8125rem;
-  line-height: 1.25rem;
-  color: var(--ui-text-muted);
-}
-
-.home-freshness-time {
-  flex: none;
-  font-family: var(--font-mono);
-  font-size: 0.75rem;
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-  line-height: 1rem;
-  color: var(--ui-text-muted);
-}
-
-.home-freshness-arrow {
-  color: var(--ui-text-muted);
-  transition: color 200ms ease-out;
-}
-
 .home-freshness-state {
   display: flex;
   min-width: 0;
@@ -718,16 +638,6 @@
   }
 }
 
-@media (hover: hover) {
-  .home-freshness-row:hover {
-    background: var(--ui-bg-muted);
-  }
-
-  .home-freshness-row:hover .home-freshness-arrow {
-    color: var(--ui-text);
-  }
-}
-
 @media (forced-colors: active) {
   .editorial-atmosphere {
     display: none;
diff --git a/app/components/SkillCard.vue b/app/components/SkillCard.vue
index 3388729a..51f03031 100644
--- a/app/components/SkillCard.vue
+++ b/app/components/SkillCard.vue
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const { copy, copied } = useInstallCopy(
 const view = computed(() => buildSkillCardView(
   skill,
   { layout, byline, metric, actions, description, rank, note, trending, surface },
-  { copied: copied.value, copy: () => { void copy(runCommand.value) } },
+  { copied: copied.value, copy: () => copy(runCommand.value) },
 ))
 
 const rankText = computed(() => view.value.rank == null ? null : String(view.value.rank).padStart(2, '0'))
diff --git a/app/components/skill-card/_SkillCardRun.vue b/app/components/skill-card/_SkillCardRun.vue
index e267a3ca..26489d4b 100644
--- a/app/components/skill-card/_SkillCardRun.vue
+++ b/app/components/skill-card/_SkillCardRun.vue
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ import type { SkillCardView } from '~/types/skill-card'
  *
  * The dot stays stone until a visitor reaches for it, so a grid of cards
  * spends no rose at rest.
+ *
+ * If the clipboard refuses, the command appears beside the pill, selected,
+ * as the run chip does, so a visitor can still copy it with the keyboard.
  */
 const { run, title } = defineProps<{
   run: NonNullable<SkillCardView['run']>
@@ -17,9 +20,27 @@ const { run, title } = defineProps<{
 }>()
 
 const marching = ref(false)
+const refused = ref(false)
+const status = ref('')
+const commandRef = useTemplateRef<HTMLElement>('command')
+
+function selectCommand() {
+  const el = commandRef.value
+  const selection = window.getSelection()
+  if (el && selection)
+    selection.selectAllChildren(el)
+}
 
 async function onCopy() {
-  run.copy()
+  const result = await run.copy()
+  if (result._tag === 'error') {
+    refused.value = true
+    status.value = 'Selected. Copy it with your keyboard.'
+    await nextTick()
+    selectCommand()
+    return
+  }
+  status.value = 'Copied.'
   // Restart the march if a second copy lands before the first one ends.
   marching.value = false
   await nextTick()
@@ -30,24 +51,58 @@ async function onCopy() {
 </script>
 
 <template>
-  <button
-    type="button"
-    class="skill-run"
-    :class="[run.copied && 'skill-run--copied', marching && 'skill-run--march']"
-    :title="run.command"
-    @click.stop.prevent="onCopy"
-  >
-    <svg class="skill-run__edge" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
-      <rect width="100%" height="100%" rx="7.5" ry="7.5" @animationend="marching = false" />
-    </svg>
-    <span class="skill-run__dot" aria-hidden="true" />
-    <span aria-hidden="true">{{ run.copied ? 'copied' : 'run' }}</span>
-    <span class="sr-only">Copy run command for {{ title }}</span>
-    <span class="sr-only" aria-live="polite">{{ run.copied ? 'Copied.' : '' }}</span>
-  </button>
+  <span class="skill-run-wrap">
+    <button
+      type="button"
+      class="skill-run"
+      :class="[run.copied && 'skill-run--copied', marching && 'skill-run--march']"
+      :title="run.command"
+      @click.stop.prevent="onCopy"
+    >
+      <svg class="skill-run__edge" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+        <rect width="100%" height="100%" rx="7.5" ry="7.5" @animationend="marching = false" />
+      </svg>
+      <span class="skill-run__dot" aria-hidden="true" />
+      <span aria-hidden="true">{{ run.copied ? 'copied' : 'run' }}</span>
+      <span class="sr-only">Copy run command for {{ title }}</span>
+    </button>
+    <code v-if="refused" ref="command" class="skill-run__manual">{{ run.command }}</code>
+    <span class="skill-run__status" :class="{ 'sr-only': !refused }" aria-live="polite">{{ status }}</span>
+  </span>
 </template>
 
 <style scoped>
+.skill-run-wrap {
+  position: relative;
+  display: inline-flex;
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  max-inline-size: 100%;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: flex-end;
+  gap: 0.25rem 0.5rem;
+}
+
+/* Selected on a refused copy, so the keyboard can take it. */
+.skill-run__manual {
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  max-inline-size: 100%;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+  font-family: var(--font-mono);
+  font-size: 0.6875rem;
+  line-height: 1.4;
+  color: var(--ui-text);
+  user-select: all;
+}
+
+.skill-run__status {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
+  text-align: end;
+  font-family: var(--font-mono);
+  font-size: 0.6875rem;
+  color: var(--ui-text-muted);
+}
+
 .skill-run {
   --skill-run-dot: var(--ui-text-dimmed);
 
diff --git a/app/pages/@[login]/index.vue b/app/pages/@[login]/index.vue
index 60d5d4c9..80b5d672 100644
--- a/app/pages/@[login]/index.vue
+++ b/app/pages/@[login]/index.vue
@@ -126,34 +126,6 @@ function cleanDescription(description: string | null): string {
   return description?.replace(/^>\s*-\s*/, '').trim() ?? ''
 }
 
-function githubSegment(value: string): string {
-  return encodeURIComponent(value)
-}
-
-function githubPath(value: string): string {
-  return value
-    .split('/')
-    .filter(Boolean)
-    .map(githubSegment)
-    .join('/')
-}
-
-function skillSourceUrl(skill: {
-  owner: string
-  repo: string
-  skill_path: string | null
-  source_owner: string | null
-  source_repo: string | null
-  default_branch: string | null
-}): string | null {
-  if (!skill.skill_path)
-    return null
-  const owner = githubSegment(skill.source_owner || skill.owner)
-  const repo = githubSegment(skill.source_repo || skill.repo)
-  const branch = githubSegment(skill.default_branch || 'main')
-  return `https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/blob/${branch}/${githubPath(skill.skill_path)}`
-}
-
 function profileSkill(skill: AuthorSkill): SkillCardSkill {
   return {
     owner: skill.owner,
@@ -163,7 +135,6 @@ function profileSkill(skill: AuthorSkill): SkillCardSkill {
     description: cleanDescription(skill.description),
     likeCount: skill.likeCount,
     modifiedAt: skill.modified_at,
-    skillFileUrl: skillSourceUrl(skill),
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/app/pages/index.vue b/app/pages/index.vue
index 215e8529..81f8c041 100644
--- a/app/pages/index.vue
+++ b/app/pages/index.vue
@@ -519,27 +519,29 @@ function recentRepoDescription(item: RecentRepoUpdate): string {
                   :description="!item.changeSummary"
                   surface="home-recent-updates"
                 />
-                <!-- A whole Repository changed, not one Skill, so it keeps its own line. -->
+                <!-- A whole Repository changed, not one Skill, so it gets its own line, drawn like the compact card beside it. -->
                 <NuxtLink
                   v-else
                   :to="repoHubPath(item.owner, item.repo)"
-                  class="home-freshness-row home-freshness-row--primary group"
+                  class="home-repo-row"
                 >
                   <img
                     :src="avatarProxyUrl(item.avatarUrl)"
                     alt=""
-                    width="36"
-                    height="36"
-                    class="home-freshness-avatar home-freshness-avatar--primary"
+                    width="28"
+                    height="28"
+                    class="home-repo-row__avatar"
                     loading="lazy"
                     decoding="async"
                   >
                   <span class="min-w-0 flex-1">
-                    <span class="home-freshness-row-title">{{ item.owner }}/{{ item.repo }}</span>
-                    <span class="home-freshness-row-description">{{ recentRepoDescription(item) }}</span>
+                    <span class="home-repo-row__name">{{ item.owner }}/{{ item.repo }}</span>
+                    <span class="home-repo-row__by">
+                      <span>{{ `${item.skillCount} ${item.skillCount === 1 ? 'skill' : 'skills'} changed` }}</span>
+                      <NuxtTime :datetime="item.occurredAt * 1000" locale="en" relative numeric="auto" relative-style="short" class="font-mono" />
+                    </span>
+                    <span class="home-repo-row__note">{{ recentRepoDescription(item) }}</span>
                   </span>
-                  <span class="home-freshness-time">{{ formatRelative(item.occurredAt) }}</span>
-                  <UIcon name="i-lucide-arrow-up-right" class="home-freshness-arrow size-4 shrink-0" aria-hidden="true" />
                 </NuxtLink>
               </li>
             </ul>
@@ -684,6 +686,78 @@ function recentRepoDescription(item: RecentRepoUpdate): string {
   padding: 0.875rem 0.75rem;
 }
 
+/* A Repository line in the same feed, on the compact card's measures. */
+.home-repo-row {
+  display: flex;
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  align-items: flex-start;
+  gap: 0.625rem;
+  padding: 0.875rem 0.75rem;
+  transition: background-color 200ms ease-out;
+}
+
+.home-repo-row:focus-visible {
+  outline: 2px solid var(--ui-primary);
+  outline-offset: -2px;
+}
+
+@media (hover: hover) {
+  .home-repo-row:hover {
+    background: var(--ui-bg-elevated);
+  }
+}
+
+.home-repo-row__avatar {
+  flex: none;
+  inline-size: 1.75rem;
+  block-size: 1.75rem;
+  border: 1px solid var(--ui-border);
+  border-radius: 9999px;
+  background: var(--ui-bg-muted);
+}
+
+.home-repo-row__name {
+  display: block;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  font-family: var(--font-mono);
+  font-size: 0.8125rem;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 1.25rem;
+  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  color: var(--ui-text-highlighted);
+}
+
+.home-repo-row__by {
+  display: flex;
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  gap: 0.375rem;
+  margin-block-start: 0.0625rem;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  line-height: 1.125rem;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  color: var(--ui-text-muted);
+}
+
+.home-repo-row__note {
+  display: -webkit-box;
+  margin-block-start: 0.375rem;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  line-height: 1.125rem;
+  color: var(--ui-text);
+  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
+  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
+  line-clamp: 2;
+}
+
+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
+  .home-repo-row {
+    transition: none;
+  }
+}
+
 /* Above the lifecycle band, so the search panel overlays it instead of sliding under. */
 .home-hero {
   position: relative;
diff --git a/app/types/skill-card.ts b/app/types/skill-card.ts
index ca382093..f480c072 100644
--- a/app/types/skill-card.ts
+++ b/app/types/skill-card.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import type { InstallCopyResult } from '~/composables/useInstallCopy'
+
 /**
  * One Skill as every embed reads it. A registry row, a search hit, a feed
  * item or a presenter answer maps onto this before it renders, so the card
@@ -91,7 +93,8 @@ export interface SkillCardView {
   note: string | null
   trending: boolean
   official: boolean
-  run: { command: string, copied: boolean, copy: () => void } | null
+  /** `copy` reports a refused clipboard, so the pill can hand over the command by hand. */
+  run: { command: string, copied: boolean, copy: () => Promise<InstallCopyResult> } | null
   like: { count: number } | null
   /** SKILL.md on GitHub, when the `source` action is on and the link is known. */
   sourceUrl: string | null
diff --git a/app/utils/skill-card-view.ts b/app/utils/skill-card-view.ts
index 335e8d70..0658e136 100644
--- a/app/utils/skill-card-view.ts
+++ b/app/utils/skill-card-view.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { InstallCopyResult } from '~/composables/useInstallCopy'
 import type {
   SkillCardAction,
   SkillCardByline,
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ export interface SkillCardOptions {
 /** The run copy state, which lives in the component that owns the clipboard. */
 export interface SkillCardRunState {
   copied: boolean
-  copy: () => void
+  copy: () => Promise<InstallCopyResult>
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/layers/identity/app/pages/me/index.vue b/layers/identity/app/pages/me/index.vue
index 330b5281..be5f3010 100644
--- a/layers/identity/app/pages/me/index.vue
+++ b/layers/identity/app/pages/me/index.vue
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ async function deleteAccount() {
                 :skill
                 layout="row"
                 metric="none"
-                :actions="['run', 'source']"
                 surface="account-watching"
               >
                 <template #meta>
diff --git a/test/unit/skill-card-run-fallback.test.ts b/test/unit/skill-card-run-fallback.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27e75619
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/skill-card-run-fallback.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { mockNuxtImport, mountSuspended } from '@nuxt/test-utils/runtime'
+import { flushPromises } from '@vue/test-utils'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import SkillCard from '../../app/components/SkillCard.vue'
+
+// The clipboard is the boundary: a browser can refuse the write, and the card
+// must still hand the visitor the command.
+mockNuxtImport('useInstallCopy', () => () => ({
+  copy: async () => ({ _tag: 'error', message: 'Could not copy.' }),
+  copied: ref(false),
+  isSupported: ref(true),
+}))
+
+const skill = { owner: 'antfu', repo: 'skills', name: 'vite', registryPath: '/gh/antfu/skills/vite' }
+
+describe('skill card run pill', () => {
+  it('shows the run command for a manual copy when the clipboard refuses', async () => {
+    const wrapper = await mountSuspended(SkillCard, { props: { skill } })
+
+    const pill = wrapper.findAll('button').find(button => button.text().includes('Copy run command for /vite'))
+    expect(wrapper.text()).not.toContain('npx skilld run antfu/skills/vite')
+
+    await pill!.trigger('click')
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    expect(wrapper.text()).toContain('npx skilld run antfu/skills/vite')
+    expect(wrapper.text()).toContain('Selected. Copy it with your keyboard.')
+
+    wrapper.unmount()
+  })
+})