Per Codex — give follows an immediate payoff without making the email feel
algorithmic. The editorial brief stays the star: subject + brief count unchanged.
* followed_digest_items(conn, user_id, exclude_ids, limit=3): recent items from
the user's followed sources/tags, same accepted/non-dup/content-visible gate,
excludes anything in the brief, capped to one per source so a single follow
can't dominate. Empty → section omitted (no empty state in email).
* build_digest gains an optional `followed` list → a small "From what you follow"
section AFTER the brief, only when there are items. Item rendering factored into
shared _item_html / _item_text_lines helpers.
* send_due_digests computes the followed items per user (excluding the brief).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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