diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b8f1bf59..663f40c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 ### Changed
 - `bashunit doc <filter>` says `No assertion matches '<filter>'` instead of printing nothing, which was indistinguishable from a broken install. Mirrors the existing `--custom` wording; the exit code stays 0 because `doc` is informational (#1201)
+- The `example/` demo is covered by the suite. `docs/examples.md` and `example/README.md` send new users to `./bashunit example` as their first contact with the framework, and nothing ran it — `make test` collects from `tests/` only — so it could break while CI stayed green. The dead `EXAMPLE_TEST_SCRIPTS` variable, pointing at a file deleted several releases ago, is gone with it (#1219)
 - Docs: an empty entry in the `-e/--env/--boot` file assigns an empty value rather than restoring the built-in default, so blanking a boolean disables it; the guide said it "wipes" the value, which reads as a reset. The rest of the precedence ladder is now covered by tests (#1217)
 - Docs: the test-function name rule is stated correctly — the prefix is a literal, lowercase `test_`, so the guide's own `testRenderAllTestsPassedWhenNotFailedTests` example and its claim that names are case-insensitive were both wrong, and a function named either way is silently never run (#1215)
 - Docs: `assert_matches` runs `grep -E` in a subprocess per call — ~2.5ms against ~0.065ms for `assert_same`, about 38x — so hot loops matching a fixed substring should prefer `assert_contains`. The subprocess is required by the Bash 3.0 floor (#1187)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5de3194e..0caeeb56 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ help:
 
 SRC_SCRIPTS_DIR=src
 TEST_SCRIPTS_DIR=tests
-EXAMPLE_TEST_SCRIPTS=./example/logic_test.sh
 PRE_COMMIT_SCRIPTS_FILE=./bin/pre-commit
 
 # Collected recursively so tests/unit/ can mirror the src/ module layout. A
diff --git a/tests/acceptance/bashunit_example_demo_test.sh b/tests/acceptance/bashunit_example_demo_test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed5457c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/acceptance/bashunit_example_demo_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# `docs/examples.md` sends readers to `example/` first, and `example/README.md`
+# tells them to run `./bashunit example` from the project root. That is a new
+# user's first contact with the framework, and nothing ran it: `make test`
+# collects from `tests/` only, no workflow mentions the folder, and no test
+# referenced it. It could rot -- a renamed assertion, a moved source file --
+# while CI stayed green (#1219).
+#
+# Assert on the outcome, not on a test count, so adding an example does not
+# fail this; what must never happen is the demo failing.
+
+function set_up_before_script() {
+  ROOT_DIR="$(pwd)"
+}
+
+function _run_example() { # $@ = extra flags
+  (cd "$ROOT_DIR" && ./bashunit "$@" example 2>&1) || echo "EXIT_FAILURE"
+}
+
+# The command the README documents, verbatim -- no trailing slash.
+function test_the_documented_example_command_succeeds() {
+  local output
+  output="$(_run_example --no-parallel | strip_ansi)"
+
+  assert_not_contains "EXIT_FAILURE" "$output"
+  assert_contains "All tests passed" "$output"
+}
+
+# The demo is also what a user copies into their own project, where the run is
+# as likely to be parallel.
+function test_the_example_folder_passes_in_parallel_too() {
+  local output
+  output="$(_run_example --parallel | strip_ansi)"
+
+  assert_not_contains "EXIT_FAILURE" "$output"
+  assert_contains "All tests passed" "$output"
+}
+
+# A guard that runs zero tests would pass forever. The folder holding no tests
+# at all is itself the failure this is here to catch.
+function test_the_example_folder_actually_holds_tests() {
+  local output
+  output="$(_run_example --no-parallel --list)"
+
+  assert_not_contains "EXIT_FAILURE" "$output"
+  assert_matches "[1-9][0-9]* tests" "$output"
+}