diff --git a/src/features/agents/service.ts b/src/features/agents/service.ts
index f7380fcaaf..6fe87efc06 100644
--- a/src/features/agents/service.ts
+++ b/src/features/agents/service.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ import {
   removeRelayAgent,
 } from "./relay-removal";
 import { communityDestination, relayOrigin } from "../communities/destination";
-import type { Communities } from "../communities/service";
+import type { ClientSnapshot, Communities } from "../communities/service";
 import {
   prepareRemoteAgentAuthorization,
   type NipOaAuthorization,
@@ -1359,10 +1359,11 @@ export { fromOwner } from "./owner-attestation";
 
 /** What Agents needs of the communities: the viewer, the selected one, and
  * a connection to any joined one without selecting it. */
-export type AgentCommunities = Pick<
-  Communities,
-  "snapshot" | "subscribe" | "open"
->;
+export type AgentCommunities = Readonly<{
+  snapshot(): Readonly<Pick<ClientSnapshot, "viewer" | "selected">>;
+  subscribe: Communities["subscribe"];
+  open: Communities["open"];
+}>;
 type Binding = {
   scope: string;
   origin: string;
diff --git a/src/features/communities/page.test.ts b/src/features/communities/page.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..80ae245356
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/features/communities/page.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import { Context } from "@deepseek-ai/cordis";
+import { afterEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import type { ReadTransport } from "../relay/transport";
+import { keypair } from "../relay/testing";
+import { communityDestination } from "./destination";
+import { pageCommunities } from "./page";
+
+const relays = vi.hoisted(() => ({ provide: vi.fn() }));
+vi.mock("../relay/service", async (original) => {
+  const actual = await original<typeof import("../relay/service")>();
+  relays.provide.mockImplementation(actual.provideRelay);
+  return { ...actual, provideRelay: relays.provide };
+});
+
+const roots: Context[] = [];
+afterEach(async () => {
+  for (const ctx of roots.splice(0)) await ctx.fiber.dispose();
+  relays.provide.mockClear();
+});
+
+const alpha = communityDestination("wss://alpha.example").id;
+const beta = communityDestination("wss://beta.example").id;
+function setup() {
+  const viewer = keypair().pubkey;
+  const relay = keypair().pubkey;
+  const connected: string[] = [];
+  const ctx = new Context();
+  roots.push(ctx);
+  const communities = pageCommunities(ctx, async (id) => {
+    connected.push(id);
+    return {
+      viewer,
+      relayAuthor: relay,
+      scope: id,
+      media: () => undefined,
+      query: async () => [],
+    } satisfies ReadTransport;
+  });
+  const changes = vi.fn();
+  communities.subscribe(changes);
+  return { viewer, communities, changes, connected };
+}
+
+it("opens nothing until the page that shows the communities sends them", () => {
+  const { communities } = setup();
+  expect(communities.snapshot()).toEqual({ memberships: [], selected: null });
+  expect(communities.open(alpha)).toBeUndefined();
+  // Signed out there: no viewer to connect as.
+  communities.follow({ memberships: [alpha], selected: alpha });
+  expect(communities.open(alpha)).toBeUndefined();
+});
+
+it("connects a joined community for its agents with a session that keeps nothing on the device", async () => {
+  const { viewer, communities, changes, connected } = setup();
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha, beta], selected: beta });
+  expect(changes).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  expect(communities.snapshot()).toEqual({
+    viewer,
+    memberships: [alpha, beta],
+    selected: beta,
+  });
+  const relay = communities.open("wss://Alpha.example/");
+  expect(relay).toBeDefined();
+  expect(communities.open(alpha)).toBe(relay);
+  expect(communities.open("wss://gamma.example")).toBeUndefined();
+  await vi.waitFor(() => expect(connected).toEqual([alpha]));
+  // No presence, nothing restored, and its sends and history in memory only.
+  const [, , presence, , , saved, , options] =
+    relays.provide.mock.calls[0] ?? [];
+  expect({ presence, saved, options }).toEqual({
+    presence: undefined,
+    saved: undefined,
+    options: { ephemeral: true },
+  });
+});
+
+it("lets go of a community that is left, and of every one when the viewer changes", () => {
+  const { viewer, communities } = setup();
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha, beta], selected: alpha });
+  const first = communities.open(alpha);
+  const second = communities.open(beta);
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [beta], selected: null });
+  expect(communities.open(alpha)).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(communities.open(beta)).toBe(second);
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha, beta], selected: null });
+  expect(communities.open(alpha)).not.toBe(first);
+  communities.follow({
+    viewer: keypair().pubkey,
+    memberships: [alpha, beta],
+    selected: null,
+  });
+  expect(communities.open(beta)).not.toBe(second);
+});
+
+it("tells its listeners only of what changed, and never selects a community it is not in", () => {
+  const { viewer, communities, changes } = setup();
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha], selected: alpha });
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha], selected: alpha });
+  expect(changes).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  communities.follow({ viewer, memberships: [alpha], selected: beta });
+  expect(changes).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  expect(communities.snapshot().selected).toBeNull();
+});
diff --git a/src/features/communities/page.ts b/src/features/communities/page.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07df206350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/features/communities/page.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+// FOUNDATION: Communities as a page that shows nothing follows them. The
+// page that shows them owns the device's record: its memberships, selection
+// and viewer. It sends them here each time they change. This page connects
+// to the joined communities for its agents with sessions of its own that
+// keep nothing on the device, so the other page stays the one owner of what
+// the device saves, shows and clears.
+import { Context } from "@deepseek-ai/cordis";
+import type { LocalAgentSource } from "../agents/local-activity";
+import type { LocalAgents } from "../agents/local";
+import type { IdentityNames } from "../identity-names/service";
+import { provideRelay, type RelayData } from "../relay/service";
+import type { ReadTransport } from "../relay/transport";
+import { communityDestination } from "./destination";
+
+/** What this page follows of the communities. */
+export type FollowedCommunities = Readonly<{
+  viewer?: string;
+  /** The joined communities' ids. */
+  memberships: readonly string[];
+  selected: string | null;
+}>;
+
+export function pageCommunities(
+  ctx: Context,
+  connect: (id: string, signal: AbortSignal) => Promise<ReadTransport>,
+  options: Readonly<{
+    identityNames?: IdentityNames;
+    agentChoices?: LocalAgents;
+    localAgents?: LocalAgentSource;
+  }> = {},
+) {
+  let state: FollowedCommunities = Object.freeze({
+    memberships: [],
+    selected: null,
+  });
+  let disposed = false;
+  const listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+  // Each session owns a scope so leaving can dispose exactly that one.
+  const sessions = new Map<
+    string,
+    Readonly<{ relay: RelayData; scope: Context }>
+  >();
+  const release = (id: string) => {
+    const session = sessions.get(id);
+    sessions.delete(id);
+    return session?.scope.fiber.dispose().catch((error: unknown) => {
+      console.warn(`Couldn't dispose the agents' session for ${id}`, error);
+    });
+  };
+  const idOf = (id: string) => {
+    try {
+      return communityDestination(id).id;
+    } catch {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+  };
+  ctx.effect(() => () => {
+    disposed = true;
+    listeners.clear();
+    return Promise.all([...sessions.keys()].map(release)).then(() => {});
+  });
+  return {
+    snapshot: () => state,
+    subscribe(listener: () => void) {
+      listeners.add(listener);
+      return () => {
+        listeners.delete(listener);
+      };
+    },
+    /** A joined community's session, for the viewer that joined it; it lives
+     * until the community is left or the viewer changes. */
+    open(id: string): RelayData | undefined {
+      const key = idOf(id);
+      if (disposed || !key || !state.viewer || !state.memberships.includes(key))
+        return undefined;
+      let session = sessions.get(key);
+      if (!session) {
+        const scope = new Context();
+        session = Object.freeze({
+          scope,
+          relay: provideRelay(
+            scope,
+            (signal) => connect(key, signal),
+            undefined,
+            options.identityNames,
+            options.agentChoices,
+            undefined,
+            options.localAgents,
+            { ephemeral: true },
+          ),
+        });
+        sessions.set(key, session);
+      }
+      return session.relay;
+    },
+    /** What the page that shows the communities has now. */
+    follow(next: FollowedCommunities) {
+      if (disposed) return;
+      const memberships = [
+        ...new Set(next.memberships.flatMap((id) => idOf(id) ?? [])),
+      ];
+      const selected =
+        next.selected === null ? null : (idOf(next.selected) ?? null);
+      const followed: FollowedCommunities = Object.freeze({
+        ...(next.viewer !== undefined && { viewer: next.viewer }),
+        memberships: Object.freeze(memberships),
+        selected: selected && memberships.includes(selected) ? selected : null,
+      });
+      if (
+        followed.viewer === state.viewer &&
+        followed.selected === state.selected &&
+        followed.memberships.length === state.memberships.length &&
+        followed.memberships.every(
+          (id, index) => state.memberships[index] === id,
+        )
+      )
+        return;
+      const viewerChanged = followed.viewer !== state.viewer;
+      state = followed;
+      for (const id of [...sessions.keys()])
+        if (viewerChanged || !memberships.includes(id)) void release(id);
+      for (const listener of [...listeners]) listener();
+    },
+  };
+}
+export type PageCommunities = ReturnType<typeof pageCommunities>;
diff --git a/src/features/relay/service.ts b/src/features/relay/service.ts
index 88555afe75..4fbcf2dfb6 100644
--- a/src/features/relay/service.ts
+++ b/src/features/relay/service.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type { LocalAgents } from "../agents/local";
 import type { IdentityNames } from "../identity-names/service";
 import type { PresenceActivity } from "../presence/activity";
 import type { Context } from "@deepseek-ai/cordis";
+import type { OutboxStorage } from "./outbox";
 import { createRelaySession, type RelaySession } from "./session";
 import { createHeadPersistence } from "./persistence";
 import {
@@ -45,17 +46,26 @@ declare module "@deepseek-ai/cordis" {
   }
 }
 
+/** Sends that live only as long as the page. */
+const PAGE_OUTBOX: OutboxStorage = { load: () => [], save() {} };
+
 /** App-owned session. Plugins receive read models, never a signer or transport.
- * Reconnection replaces the session and invalidates all old async work. */
+ * Reconnection replaces the session and invalidates all old async work.
+ *
+ * An `ephemeral` session is for a page that shows nothing, beside the page
+ * that does: it keeps its sends and history in memory only, and restores
+ * nothing, so it never adds to or clears what the other page saves. */
 export function provideRelay(
   ctx: Context,
   connect?: (signal: AbortSignal) => Promise<ReadTransport>,
   presenceActivity?: PresenceActivity,
   identityNames?: IdentityNames,
   agentChoices?: LocalAgents,
-  resume?: { viewer: string; scope: string },
+  saved?: { viewer: string; scope: string },
   localAgents?: LocalAgentSource,
+  { ephemeral = false }: { ephemeral?: boolean } = {},
 ) {
+  const resume = ephemeral ? undefined : saved;
   let disposed = false;
   let generation = 0;
   let controller: AbortController | undefined;
@@ -246,10 +256,14 @@ export function provideRelay(
               "selected-channel",
               undefined,
             ),
-            persistence: createHeadPersistence(
-              transport.viewer,
-              transportOrigin(transport),
-            ),
+            ...(ephemeral
+              ? { outboxStorage: PAGE_OUTBOX }
+              : {
+                  persistence: createHeadPersistence(
+                    transport.viewer,
+                    transportOrigin(transport),
+                  ),
+                }),
           });
           await successor.restore();
           if (
diff --git a/src/features/relay/startup-service.test.ts b/src/features/relay/startup-service.test.ts
index 6612ce1326..27ac847096 100644
--- a/src/features/relay/startup-service.test.ts
+++ b/src/features/relay/startup-service.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ import { provideRelay } from "./service";
 
 const storage = vi.hoisted(() => ({ create: vi.fn() }));
 vi.mock("./persistence", () => ({ createHeadPersistence: storage.create }));
+const journal = vi.hoisted(() => ({ create: vi.fn() }));
+vi.mock("./outbox", async (original) => ({
+  ...(await original<typeof import("./outbox")>()),
+  browserOutboxStorage: journal.create,
+}));
 const roots: Context[] = [];
 afterEach(async () => {
   for (const ctx of roots.splice(0)) await ctx.fiber.dispose();
@@ -238,3 +243,43 @@ it("disconnect during a coalesced cache clear does not reconnect", async () => {
   expect(data.snapshot().status).toBe("disconnected");
   expect(connections).toHaveLength(1);
 });
+it("an ephemeral session saves, restores and clears nothing on the device", async () => {
+  const { source } = setup();
+  storage.create.mockClear();
+  journal.create.mockReset();
+  journal.create.mockImplementation(() => ({ load: () => [], save() {} }));
+  const writing: ReadTransport = {
+    ...source,
+    writer: {
+      kinds: [9],
+      sign: async () => {
+        throw new Error("unused");
+      },
+      publish: async () => {},
+    },
+  };
+  const open = (ephemeral: boolean) => {
+    const ctx = new Context();
+    roots.push(ctx);
+    return provideRelay(
+      ctx,
+      async () => writing,
+      undefined,
+      undefined,
+      undefined,
+      { viewer: source.viewer, scope: "primary" },
+      undefined,
+      { ephemeral },
+    );
+  };
+  const page = open(true);
+  await vi.waitFor(() => expect(page.snapshot().status).toBe("ready"));
+  await page.clearCache();
+  expect(storage.create).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  expect(journal.create).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  // The same session, kept on the device, uses both.
+  const kept = open(false);
+  await vi.waitFor(() => expect(kept.snapshot().status).toBe("ready"));
+  expect(storage.create).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  expect(journal.create).toHaveBeenCalled();
+});