diff --git a/docs/web-ui/README.md b/docs/web-ui/README.md
index 903cb6c0..800d868f 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/README.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/README.md
@@ -10,24 +10,25 @@ what you actually do here.
 
 ## Where things are
 
-Everything starts at the **H0M3 hub**, served at `/` — a grid of tiles
-linking to every surface (Dashboard, Flow, Logs, Stats,
-Settings, Core). Every page links back to H0M3, so you're
-never more than one step from the hub.
+Everything starts at the **dashboard**, served at `/`. A pages menu
+(the `☰` button at the left of the tab strip) links to the other
+surfaces — Flow, Stats, the API docs and the swarm UI — and each of
+those pages links back to the dashboard.
 
-The **dashboard** itself (`/dashboard.html`) is where you'll spend most
-of your time. It's a single page with four tabs:
+The dashboard is where you'll spend most of your time. It's a single
+page with five tabs:
 
 - **4G3NTS** — every agent, live. This is the default tab and the one
   you'll check most.
 - **R3BU1LD QU3U3**, **M3T4 1NPUTS** and **BUILD L0GS** — the build
   lifecycle: the rebuild queue with a live log of whatever is building,
   the meta flake inputs you can bump, and the build log history.
+- **K3PT ST4T3** — kept state from agents with no container
+  (tombstones), with a purge button per entry.
 
-Everything else lives on its own page instead, all reachable from the
-H0M3 hub: **Flow** (`/flow.html`, the raw live message stream across
-the whole swarm), **Stats** (`/stats.html`, swarm-wide usage stats), and
-**Core** (`/core.html`, tombstones and container resource use).
+Two things live on their own page instead, reached from the pages
+menu: **Flow** (`/flow.html`, the raw live message stream across the
+whole swarm) and **Stats** (`/stats.html`, swarm-wide usage stats).
 
 Each agent also has its own page — a full terminal view of that
 agent's session, reachable by selecting its name anywhere in the
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/agent.md b/docs/web-ui/agent.md
index ff04e86a..1fe199f9 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/agent.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/agent.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ at a given viewport width. Two columns:
   - **Inbox / todos pills** (`📬 inbox · N` / `📋 todos · N`): hidden
     when empty; selecting it opens the matching flyout in the side panel.
   - **Links badge** (`🔗`): opens a popover listing `↑ dashboard`
-    (back-link to the host dashboard, `${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`)
+    (back-link to the host dashboard, `${dashboardBase}`)
     followed by this agent's `agent_links()`-sourced navigation (stats,
     screen when VNC is enabled, forge profile + config-repo mirror when
     the agent has a forge account, any `services.hyperhive.agent.dashboardLinks`
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md b/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
index 74c1223e..9ffba8c5 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
@@ -8,29 +8,32 @@ surfaces — the agent roster, agent creation, linking external forge and
 matrix accounts, the controller's job graph — are on the
 [swarm UI](../swarm/ui.md).
 
-hive-c0re serves the dashboard at `/dashboard.html` (with the home page at `/`).
+hive-c0re serves the dashboard at `/`.
 It has a fixed chrome header at the top and a `<main>` that shows exactly
 one tab pane at a time. The URL hash (`#agents`, `#rebuild`, `#meta`,
-`#buildlogs`, `#permissions`) drives which pane is
-active; hash changes don't reload the page. FL0W and the other
-standalone pages are reachable from the H0M3 hub at `/`, not
-from the dashboard tab strip.
+`#buildlogs`, `#kept`) drives which pane is
+active; hash changes don't reload the page. FL0W and ST4TS
+are standalone pages reached from the pages menu, not from the
+dashboard tab strip.
 
 **Chrome header** (fixed, overlays the active tab pane):
-- **← home back-link**: top-left of the chrome, links to the H0M3 hub
-  at `/`. Every surface links back to the hub rather than to each other.
+- **Pages menu**: a `☰` button at the left of the chrome (`links-menu.js`)
+  opening a popover with links to **flow** (`/flow.html`), **stats**
+  (`/stats.html`), **api docs** (`/api/docs/`) and **swarm** (the swarm
+  UI at the swarm apex domain, opened in a new tab). The swarm entry
+  comes from `state.swarm_public_url`, which hive-c0re reads from
+  `HIVE_SWARM_PUBLIC_URL` (set from `services.hyperhive.swarm.domain`);
+  with no domain set there is no swarm entry. The standalone pages link back to `/`.
 - **Tab strip**: `◆ 4G3NTS ◆`, `◆ R3BU1LD QU3U3 ◆`, `◆ M3T4 1NPUTS ◆`,
-  `◆ BUILD L0GS ◆`. In-page tabs only —
-  the SYST3M panels live on the
-  standalone **C0R3** page (`/core.html`), and FL0W / ST4TS
-  live on their own pages too, all reachable from the
-  H0M3 hub (not the tab strip). Count pills on 4G3NTS
-  (stale containers) and R3BU1LD QU3U3 (rebuilds in flight).
+  `◆ BUILD L0GS ◆`, `◆ K3PT ST4T3 ◆`. In-page tabs only — FL0W / ST4TS
+  live on their own pages, reached from the pages menu. Count pills on
+  4G3NTS (stale containers), R3BU1LD QU3U3 (rebuilds in flight) and
+  K3PT ST4T3 (kept-state entries).
 - **Banner-thin** (`░▒▓█▓▒░ HYPERHIVE / HIVE-C0RE / WE ARE THE WIRED ░▒▓█▓▒░`)
   — sits below the tab strip.
 - **Server-warnings banner** — a generic, sticky top-of-page strip shown
-  on **every** page (dashboard + every stand-alone page — FL0W,
-  H0M3, C0R3, ST4TS), injected at the top
+  on **every** page (the dashboard + the stand-alone FL0W
+  and ST4TS pages), injected at the top
   of `<body>` by `renderServerWarnings` in `common.js`. Driven by
   `state.server_warnings` — a list of `{ kind, level, message }` — and
   coloured by `level` (`warn` amber / `crit` red). hive-c0re owns the
@@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ from the dashboard tab strip.
   to `<swarm> / <hive> // h1ve-c0re` once `hive_name` / `swarm_name`
   arrive in the state snapshot.
 
-The FL0W page uses a slim header (a `← home` back-link + the page
+The FL0W page uses a slim header (a `← dashboard` back-link + the page
 title) rather than the dashboard tab strip — it's a standalone surface,
 not a tab pane.
 
@@ -70,15 +73,12 @@ conflicting agent.
 `↻ UPD4TE 4LL` button appears above the containers list when any
 agent is stale.
 
-## C0R3 page (`/core.html`)
+## K3PT ST4T3 tab
 
-Passive / rare-interaction state, reached from the **Core** tile on the
-H0M3 hub (served at
-`/core.html`), with minimal chrome: a `← home` back-link and a single pane,
-**K3PT ST4T3**. The page is its own esbuild bundle (`core.js`) that
-cold-loads `/api/state` and subscribes to `/api/dashboard/stream` for
-`tombstones_changed`. (Rebuild queue and meta inputs are dashboard
-tabs — see below.)
+Passive / rare-interaction state. `kept.js` renders it from the
+`/api/state` snapshot and keeps it live from the `tombstones_changed`
+stream event. (Rebuild queue and meta inputs are dashboard tabs too —
+see below.)
 
 Per-container CPU, memory and disk load isn't shown in the hive UI. The
 same figures go out as OTEL metrics and appear in Grafana (see
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ entry with that id pre-expanded.
 
 Hive-wide turn statistics, aggregated across every agent's
 `hyperhive-turn-stats.sqlite` for the selected window. Not a dashboard
-tab — a standalone page reached from the **Stats** tile on the H0M3
-hub, same minimal chrome as `/flow.html`. Distinct from
+tab — a standalone page reached from the dashboard's pages menu,
+same minimal chrome as `/flow.html`. Distinct from
 each agent's own `/stats` page (which carries the per-agent trend
 charts): ST4TS is the swarm-level rollup.
 
@@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ prices. Models not covered fall back to hive-c0re's built-in estimate.
 ## FL0W page (`/flow.html`)
 
 A dedicated full-page terminal (not a tab pane — a separate HTML
-page). Slim chrome: a `← home` back-link to the H0M3 hub, the FL0W
+page). Slim chrome: a `← dashboard` back-link, the FL0W
 title, and the agent-filter select (see below). No dashboard tab
-strip — FL0W is a standalone surface reached from the hub.
+strip — FL0W is a standalone surface reached from the pages menu.
 
 **MESS4GE FL0W** — live broker tail wrapped in a `.terminal-wrap`.
 Cold load backfills the last ~200 messages from `/api/dashboard/history`;
@@ -294,17 +294,6 @@ Tab/Enter to confirm; `@*` broadcasts). `POST /api/op-send` drops
 `{from:"operator", to, body}` into the broker; the resulting SSE frame
 re-renders the terminal row. The operator addresses the root agent as `@root`.
 
-## H0M3 page (`/`)
-
-The H0M3 hub is the primary landing page (served at `/` by default). A
-responsive grid of link tiles — Dashboard, Flow, Stats,
-Core, API — each pointing to their respective
-surfaces, all unconditionally shown (no gating). The page is a pure
-portal with no tab-bar or SSE subscriptions. Typography + colours inherit
-from the shared theme (Catppuccin Mocha via `common.css` + `theme.css`).
-`home.js` fills the swarm/hive identity line at the top. All dashboard
-sub-pages include a `← Home` back-link for navigation.
-
 ## Container row
 
 A full-height **square agent icon** (5em, capped) on the left. The
@@ -579,7 +568,7 @@ selected) before the bar appears.
 ## Dashboard endpoints
 
 Also browsable interactively at `/api/docs` (a Swagger UI, linked from
-the H0M3 hub's **API** tile), with the raw spec at `/api/openapi.json`.
+the pages menu's **api docs** entry), with the raw spec at `/api/openapi.json`.
 It's a growing supplement, not yet a full replacement for the list
 below — some endpoints aren't in it yet.
 
@@ -703,7 +692,7 @@ payload):
   batch (`reminder_scheduler`).
 - `tombstones_changed` (seq, tombstones: `Vec<TombstoneView>`) —
   full snapshot of destroyed-but-state-kept agents. Emitted on
-  destroy, purge, and revive. C0R3 K3PT ST4T3 tab subscribes.
+  destroy, purge, and revive. The K3PT ST4T3 tab subscribes.
 - `meta_inputs_changed` (seq, inputs: `Vec<MetaInput>`) — full
   snapshot of `meta/flake.lock` inputs. The M3T4 1NPUTS tab
   subscribes; same shape as `GET /api/meta-inputs`.
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/design-guide.md b/docs/web-ui/design-guide.md
index 04fbc047..654a435e 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/design-guide.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/design-guide.md
@@ -19,11 +19,9 @@ repeated here.
   visual noise — the base16 palette has multiple accent slots
   (`--purple`, `--cyan`, `--pink`, …); use more than one where it adds
   distinction, not decoration for its own sake.
-- **Whimsy** — small, delightful touches are welcome (the per-hive
-  dashboard's home-page matrix-rain background, `packages/dashboard/src/
-home.js`, is the reference example — currently in the dashboard
-  package, not swarm-ui itself, but the pattern it sets applies here
-  too). Whimsy still has to clear the accessibility bar below (motion,
+- **Whimsy** — small, delightful touches are welcome (the matrix-rain
+  background, `src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx`, is the reference example).
+  Whimsy still has to clear the accessibility bar below (motion,
   in particular). swarm-ui's own reference example: `Panel`'s optional
   `icon` prop (`src/ui/panel/Panel.tsx`), a small emoji glyph in a
   panel's header, chosen per panel with no default — grew out of a
@@ -49,12 +47,10 @@ home.js`, is the reference example — currently in the dashboard
 
 **General rule, not case-by-case: every non-essential CSS animation
 gates on `prefers-reduced-motion` and pauses when its tab/section is
-hidden.** The dashboard's matrix-rain background (`packages/dashboard/
-src/home.js`/`.css`) is the existing reference implementation of this
-pattern — genuinely does both today, confirmed by reading it — even
-though it lives in the dashboard package rather than swarm-ui; every
-future swarm-ui animation follows the same pattern, not just whimsy
-pieces.
+hidden.** The matrix-rain background (`src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx`) is the
+existing reference implementation of this pattern — it does both today,
+confirmed by reading it; every future swarm-ui animation follows the
+same pattern, not just whimsy pieces.
 
 <!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->
 
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/shape.md b/docs/web-ui/shape.md
index af9f4382..45635d89 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/shape.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/shape.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
   from `@hive/shared` (was `hive-fr0nt`); the dashboard ships one
   CSS bundle per page (`colors.css` + `theme.css` + `common.css`,
   loaded by every page, plus a page-specific bundle —
-  `dashboard.css` / `flow.css` / `home.css` /
-  `stats.css` / `core.css`);
+  `dashboard.css` / `flow.css` /
+  `stats.css`);
   `common.css` inlines `@hive/shared`'s
   `base.css` + `terminal.css` + `tabs.css` + `chrome.css` +
   `pill.css` via esbuild's `@import` resolution.
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
index f5159326..2e0ff5a3 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export interface MetaNavProps {
   links: AgentLink[];
   forgePublicUrl: string | null;
   /** Absolute base URL of the host dashboard (`resolveDashboardBase`)
-   * — the `🧭 dashboard` item links to `${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`. */
+   * — the `🧭 dashboard` item links to `${dashboardBase}`. */
   dashboardBase: string;
 }
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ export function MetaNav({
         <div class="meta-nav-popover" role="menu" aria-label="agent links">
           <a
             class="meta-nav-item"
-            href={`${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`}
+            href={dashboardBase}
             target="_blank"
             rel="noopener"
             role="menuitem"
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/stats.js b/frontend/packages/agent/src/stats.js
index 3bc040ab..15468083 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/stats.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/stats.js
@@ -507,15 +507,10 @@ window.Chart = Chart;
       // When accessed via hive-gateway the page lives at `/agent/<name>/`
       // on the same origin as the dashboard. Detect via path prefix
       // rather than the direct port (which is unreachable or wrong scheme
-      // behind HTTPS TLS termination). The dashboard SPA lives at
-      // `dashboard.html` — the `/` root now serves the H0M3 menu hub.
+      // behind HTTPS TLS termination). The dashboard SPA is the `/` root.
       dl.href = window.location.pathname.startsWith("/agent/")
-        ? window.location.origin + "/dashboard.html"
-        : "http://" +
-          window.location.hostname +
-          ":" +
-          s.dashboard_port +
-          "/dashboard.html";
+        ? window.location.origin + "/"
+        : "http://" + window.location.hostname + ":" + s.dashboard_port + "/";
     } catch (_) {
       /* non-fatal */
     }
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs b/frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs
index ca29bc82..18d6e14c 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-// esbuild build for @hive/dashboard: one JS+CSS bundle per page (H0M3 at
-// `/`, dashboard/flow/core/stats at their own
+// esbuild build for @hive/dashboard: one JS+CSS bundle per page (the
+// dashboard at `/`, flow/stats at their own
 // `.html`), each named after its own entry point below — see the
 // `entryPoints`/`for` lists for the exact map, not repeated here to
 // avoid this comment drifting out of sync with the real build steps.
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@
 // module into each bundle rather than emitting a shared chunk (no
 // `splitting: true`). The Rust binary mounts `dist/` as a
 // `tower_http::ServeDir` fallback (`append_index_html_on_directories`
-// serves index.html at /); the dashboard SPA lives at /dashboard.html
-// (a plain file, not a /dashboard/ prefix) so it never shadows the
-// exact-match /dashboard/stream + /dashboard/history SSE routes
-// registered before the ServeDir fallback.
+// serves index.html at /); the dashboard SPA is that index.html.
 
 import { build } from "esbuild";
 import { mkdirSync, copyFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
@@ -32,13 +29,7 @@ mkdirSync(staticDir(""), { recursive: true });
 // follow-up once asset sizes warrant it). esbuild writes each entry
 // to `static/<name>.js` based on the entryPoint basename.
 await build({
-  entryPoints: [
-    src("tabs.js"),
-    src("flow.js"),
-    src("home.js"),
-    src("stats.js"),
-    src("core.js"),
-  ],
+  entryPoints: [src("tabs.js"), src("flow.js"), src("stats.js")],
   outdir: staticDir(""),
   bundle: true,
   format: "esm",
@@ -99,9 +90,7 @@ for (const entry of [
   "common.css",
   "dashboard.css",
   "flow.css",
-  "home.css",
   "stats.css",
-  "core.css",
 ]) {
   await build({
     entryPoints: [src(entry)],
@@ -112,13 +101,7 @@ for (const entry of [
   });
 }
 
-for (const html of [
-  "index.html",
-  "dashboard.html",
-  "flow.html",
-  "stats.html",
-  "core.html",
-]) {
+for (const html of ["index.html", "flow.html", "stats.html"]) {
   copyFileSync(src(html), dist(html));
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
index 313f6043..ef15746a 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/agents.js
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const selectionState = new Set();
 //
 // Rendered into #jobq-rollup-section, a sibling of #containers-section
 // kept OUTSIDE that section's per-render `replaceChildren()` wipe (see
-// dashboard.html) — a section that gets wiped on every container-state
+// index.html) — a section that gets wiped on every container-state
 // tick would defeat the component owning its own fetch lifecycle.
 let jobqRollupToken = 0;
 
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ function buildContainerLi(c, opts) {
 
 export function renderContainers(s) {
   const root = $("containers-section");
-  // #containers-section only exists on /dashboard.html. tabs.js is the
+  // #containers-section only exists on the dashboard. tabs.js is the
   // bundle for that page only (flow.html loads flow.js instead).
   // Belt-and-suspenders for any future page that adds tabs.js
   // without a #containers-section — matches the
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
index cd7d7857..1766873b 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// The build lifecycle tabs of /dashboard.html — rebuild queue, live build
+// The build lifecycle tabs of the dashboard — rebuild queue, live build
 // log, meta inputs, and build log history. Not an entry point: tabs.js
 // imports it, owns the tab strip and the dashboard event stream, and calls
 // the exports below. Three tabs, the panes' ids matching the tab ids:
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ function renderMetaInputs(s) {
 // the generic component's.
 // Split from `renderRebuildQueue` below: `replaceChildren()` only
 // belongs on the *first* render, to clear the static "loading…"
-// placeholder `#rebuild-queue-section` starts with in `dashboard.html` —
+// placeholder `#rebuild-queue-section` starts with in `index.html` —
 // Preact doesn't know that placeholder is there, so a later render
 // call must NOT repeat `replaceChildren()` (it would wipe Preact's own
 // tracked children out from under its diffing rather than let it
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
index 307bc90e..20c59963 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.css
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ code {
    Semantic colour variants only — shape comes from `hive-pill-sm`
    (shared with the agent UI's pill/chip family, @hive/shared/pill.css),
    carried directly in the markup alongside each of these classnames
-   (agents.js/core.js/builds.js). Used on container rows and build-log
+   (agents.js/kept.js/builds.js). Used on container rows and build-log
    rows. */
 .badge-warn {
   color: var(--amber);
@@ -561,12 +561,12 @@ hive-side-panel .md td {
 }
 
 /* ─── page-content gutter ─────────────────────────────────────────────
-   Inverted-gutter layout: the dashboard + H0M3 keep `<body>` full-bleed
-   and wrap their padded content in a single `.page-content` div that
+   Inverted-gutter layout: the dashboard keeps `<body>` full-bleed
+   and wraps their padded content in a single `.page-content` div that
    carries the horizontal gutter. Full-width chrome (the tab strip, the
    server-warnings banner, the footer) then spans edge-to-edge for free,
    with no negative-margin breakout hacks. Only matches on pages that opt
-   in by adding the wrapper (dashboard.html, index.html); FL0W / ST4TS
+   in by adding the wrapper (index.html); FL0W / ST4TS
    are full-bleed with their own `.<page>-main` padding. */
 .page-content {
   padding: 0 1.5em;
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ hive-side-panel .md td {
    by common.js (renderServerWarnings) on every page. One row per warning;
    colour comes from the per-warning `level` (warn = amber, crit = red).
    Stickiness lives on the `.sticky-top` wrapper, not here. The bar spans
-   the full width edge-to-edge; the dashboard + H0M3 are full-bleed at the
+   the full width edge-to-edge; the dashboard is full-bleed at the
    body level (their 1.5em gutter lives on an inner `.page-content`
    wrapper), so the banner is full-width for free. */
 .server-warnings[hidden] {
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
index c2b55c29..9052cf38 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Shared dashboard helpers used by both dashboard.html (./tabs.js) and
+// Shared dashboard helpers used by both index.html (./tabs.js) and
 // flow.html (./flow.js): pure DOM helpers, the side-panel singleton,
 // and the path-link / file-preview infrastructure for the side panel.
 
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ export function appendLinkified(parent, text, refs) {
 
 // ─── server warnings banner ──────────────────────────────────────────
 // A generic top-of-page banner shown on every page (dashboard + the
-// stand-alone FL0W / H0M3 pages). The backend decides what to
+// stand-alone FL0W / ST4TS pages). The backend decides what to
 // warn about — `/api/state.server_warnings` is a list of
 // `{ kind, level, message }` — and this just renders it, coloured by
 // `level` (`warn` amber / `crit` red). Adding a new system warning is a
@@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ export function appendLinkified(parent, text, refs) {
 // banner above the page's chrome (tab bar / page header), so the banner
 // stacks with the chrome instead of being overlaid by it (two separate
 // `top:0` stickies would otherwise collide). Built once by wrapping the
-// page's existing chrome element; pages without a chrome (e.g. the H0M3
-// hub) get a banner-only sticky region at the top of <body>.
+// page's existing chrome element; pages without a chrome (none today)
+// get a banner-only sticky region at the top of <body>.
 function ensureStickyTop() {
   let top = document.querySelector(".sticky-top");
   if (top) return top;
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.css
deleted file mode 100644
index f618308b..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-/* ─── /core.html — C0R3 page ───────────────────────────────────────
-   Kept state (tombstones) and stale permission entries. Section rules
-   imported from system-sections.css (shared with dashboard.css). */
-@import "./system-sections.css";
-
-body.core-shell {
-  margin: 0;
-  padding: 0;
-}
-
-.core-main {
-  padding: 1.2em 1.5em 2em;
-}
-
-/* ─── K3PT ST4T3 container cards ────────────────────────────────────
-   core.html doesn't load dashboard.css (that's the operator SPA),
-   so the .container-row card styles aren't inherited. Redefine them
-   here so tombstone entries look like proper cards (similar to agent
-   cards on the main dashboard) rather than bare list items. */
-.containers {
-  list-style: none;
-  padding: 0;
-  margin: 0.5em 0 0;
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.5em;
-}
-.container-row {
-  background: var(--bg-elev);
-  border: 1px solid var(--border);
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  padding: 0.55em 0.8em 0.5em;
-}
-.container-row.tombstone {
-  border-style: dashed;
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--bg-elev) 35%, transparent);
-  opacity: 0.85;
-}
-.container-row .head {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  flex-wrap: wrap;
-  gap: 0.5em;
-  margin-bottom: 0.4em;
-}
-.container-row .head .name {
-  font-size: 1.05em;
-  font-weight: bold;
-}
-.container-row.tombstone .head .name {
-  color: var(--muted);
-}
-.container-row .head .meta {
-  margin-left: auto;
-  font-size: 0.88em;
-  color: var(--muted);
-}
-.container-row .actions {
-  display: flex;
-  flex-wrap: wrap;
-  gap: 0.4em;
-}
-.container-row .actions form.inline {
-  display: inline-block;
-  margin: 0;
-}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 3313df2d..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-<!doctype html>
-<html lang="en">
-  <head>
-    <meta charset="utf-8" />
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
-    <title>hyperhive // C0R3</title>
-    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/colors.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/theme.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/common.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/core.css" />
-  </head>
-  <body class="core-shell">
-    <!-- C0R3: the host/coordinator surface. Standalone page (served at
-       /core.html) carved out of the dashboard's old SYST3M tab so the
-       dashboard tab strip stays lean: kept state (tombstones). Rebuild
-       queue + meta inputs are tabs of /dashboard.html. The section <div>
-       id (tombstones-section) matches what core.js's renderers target. Hive
-       infra containers (`hive-forge`, `hive-gateway`, `hive-matrix`) have
-       no dashboard panel — `hivectl stop`/`start`/`restart` is the only
-       control surface. -->
-    <header class="page-header">
-      <a class="page-back" href="/">← home</a>
-      <span class="page-title">K3PT ST4T3</span>
-    </header>
-
-    <main class="core-main">
-      <!-- tombstones-section shows destroyed agents (purge button). -->
-      <p class="meta">
-        kept state from previously tombstoned agents — recreating an agent with
-        the same name reuses it.
-      </p>
-      <div id="tombstones-section">
-        <p class="meta">loading…</p>
-      </div>
-    </main>
-
-    <script type="module" src="/static/core.js" defer></script>
-  </body>
-</html>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ebc5a9ca..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,156 +0,0 @@
-// C0R3 page entry (/core.html). The host/coordinator surface, its own
-// standalone page so the dashboard tab strip stays lean: kept state
-// (tombstones).
-//
-// Rebuild queue + meta inputs are tabs of /dashboard.html, not here. This
-// page is its own esbuild bundle with its own runtime: it cold-loads
-// /api/state and subscribes to /dashboard/stream (the same broker event
-// channel the dashboard uses), maintaining its own copy of the tombstones
-// state.
-
-import { $, form, openStream, initServerWarnings } from "./common.js";
-import { el } from "@hive/shared/dom.js";
-import { bindAsyncForms } from "@hive/shared/forms.js";
-
-// ─── derived state (own copies; this bundle has its own runtime) ──────────
-let tombstonesState = [];
-function syncFromSnapshot(s) {
-  tombstonesState = (s.tombstones || []).slice();
-}
-
-// ─── kept state (tombstones) ──────────────────────────────────────────────
-function renderTombstones(s) {
-  const root = $("tombstones-section");
-  if (!root) return;
-  root.replaceChildren();
-  if (!s.tombstones || !s.tombstones.length) {
-    root.append(el("p", { class: "empty" }, "no kept state — clean"));
-    return;
-  }
-  const fmtBytes = (n) => {
-    if (n < 1024) return n + " B";
-    if (n < 1024 * 1024) return (n / 1024).toFixed(1) + " KB";
-    if (n < 1024 * 1024 * 1024) return (n / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(1) + " MB";
-    return (n / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2) + " GB";
-  };
-  const fmtAgeDays = (ts) => {
-    if (!ts) return "?";
-    const d = Math.floor((Date.now() / 1000 - ts) / 86400);
-    if (d <= 0) return "today";
-    if (d === 1) return "1 day ago";
-    return d + " days ago";
-  };
-  // Only shown alongside actual rows — a caveat over an empty list is noise.
-  // Wording is deliberately about what the list *is* rather than what it
-  // isn't: nothing records a destroy, so "container absent" is the only thing
-  // the backend can actually tell.
-  const warn = el("hive-warn", { level: "warning" });
-  warn.append(
-    el("strong", {}, "shows every agent whose container is absent"),
-    " — not only destroyed ones. An agent part-way through being spawned " +
-      "looks identical here, because nothing records a destroy. Check it is " +
-      "really gone before you PURG3.",
-  );
-  root.append(warn);
-  const ul = el("ul", { class: "containers" });
-  for (const t of s.tombstones) {
-    const li = el("li", { class: "container-row tombstone" });
-    const head = el("div", { class: "head" });
-    head.append(
-      el("span", { class: "name" }, t.name),
-      // Was `destroyed`, which the backend cannot actually know — see the
-      // caveat above. `offline` is what the absence of a container proves.
-      el("span", { class: "hive-pill-sm badge-muted" }, "offline"),
-    );
-    if (t.has_creds)
-      head.append(
-        el("span", { class: "hive-pill-sm badge-muted" }, "creds kept"),
-      );
-    head.append(
-      el(
-        "span",
-        { class: "meta" },
-        `${fmtBytes(t.state_bytes)} · ${fmtAgeDays(t.last_seen)}`,
-      ),
-    );
-    li.append(head);
-
-    const actions = el("div", { class: "actions" });
-    actions.append(
-      form(
-        "/api/purge-tombstone/" + t.name,
-        "btn-destroy",
-        "PURG3",
-        "PURGE " +
-          t.name +
-          "? config history, claude creds, " +
-          "and notes are all WIPED. no undo.",
-        {},
-        { noRefresh: true },
-      ),
-    );
-    li.append(actions);
-    ul.append(li);
-  }
-  root.append(ul);
-}
-
-// ─── render-all (cold load + any full re-render) ──────────────────────────
-function renderAll() {
-  renderTombstones({ tombstones: tombstonesState });
-}
-
-// ─── live SSE handlers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
-const SSE_HANDLERS = {
-  tombstones_changed(ev) {
-    tombstonesState = (ev.tombstones || []).slice();
-    renderTombstones({ tombstones: tombstonesState });
-  },
-};
-
-// ─── boot ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-// Re-fetch /api/state, re-sync the derived state, re-render. Used for the
-// cold load and as the post-submit refresh for `data-async` forms whose
-// mutation doesn't arrive via an SSE event (e.g. the meta-update / spawn /
-// purge actions that opt out of `data-no-refresh`).
-async function refreshState() {
-  try {
-    const resp = await fetch("/api/state");
-    if (resp.ok) syncFromSnapshot(await resp.json());
-  } catch {
-    // best-effort: the page keeps its last-rendered state
-  }
-  renderAll();
-}
-
-async function init() {
-  initServerWarnings();
-
-  // `data-async` form submit interceptor — without this the meta-update /
-  // cancel / respawn / purge buttons POST natively and the browser navigates
-  // to the bare `ok` response page.
-  bindAsyncForms(() => refreshState());
-
-  await refreshState();
-
-  // kinds= matches SSE_HANDLERS below verbatim — narrows the stream down
-  // to the kinds this page acts on. This page was one
-  // of 4 unfiltered `/api/dashboard/stream` subscribers before this
-  // (subscription discipline, part 1 of the dashboard-event-stream-
-  // split issue).
-  const es = openStream("/api/dashboard/stream?kinds=tombstones_changed");
-  if (es) {
-    es.onmessage = (e) => {
-      let ev;
-      try {
-        ev = JSON.parse(e.data);
-      } catch {
-        return;
-      }
-      const h = SSE_HANDLERS[ev.kind];
-      if (h) h(ev);
-    };
-  }
-}
-
-init();
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
index 1f477956..a4bfb732 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
    component rules that this file depends on. */
 
 /* SYST3M panel rules (rebuild queue / meta inputs / kept state)
-   live in system-sections.css, shared with /core.html. A few are still
-   referenced from the dashboard (`.rebuild-queue`), so the dashboard
-   pulls them in here. */
+   live in system-sections.css. */
 @import "./system-sections.css";
 @import "@hive/shared/jobq-rollup.css";
 @import "@hive/shared/jobq-graph.css";
@@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ body.dashboard-shell {
 }
 
 .dashboard-chrome {
-  /* Home back-link + tab strip share one row (flex). The chrome owns the
+  /* Pages menu + tab strip share one row (flex). The chrome owns the
      horizontal gutter and the single full-width bottom divider; its
      children drop their own side padding / border so they sit inline. */
   display: flex;
@@ -45,20 +43,64 @@ body.dashboard-shell {
   padding: 0.3em 1em;
   margin: 0 0 1em;
 }
-/* ← home back-link to the H0M3 hub. Small purple link top-left of the
-   chrome, mirroring the .page-back treatment the standalone pages use
-   (now shared from @hive/shared/chrome.css) so the navigation reads
-   consistently. The dashboard keeps this richer sticky chrome of its
-   own rather than folding into the simple page header. */
-.dash-home-back {
+/* Pages menu (links-menu.js): one icon button at the left of the chrome
+   that opens a popover of the standalone pages and the swarm UI. Same
+   shape as the swarm UI's LinksMenu — quiet until hovered or open. The
+   explicit `[hidden]` rule is needed because `display: flex` on the
+   popover would otherwise beat the UA `[hidden]` style. */
+.links-menu {
+  position: relative;
   flex: none;
+}
+.links-menu-button {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  width: 2em;
+  height: 2em;
+  padding: 0;
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  border-radius: 0.4em;
+  background: none;
   color: var(--purple);
+  font-size: 1em;
+  line-height: 1;
+  cursor: pointer;
+}
+.links-menu-button:hover,
+.links-menu-button[aria-expanded="true"] {
+  border-color: var(--border);
+  background: var(--bg-elev);
+}
+.links-menu-popover {
+  position: absolute;
+  top: calc(100% + 0.4em);
+  left: 0;
+  z-index: 10;
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  min-width: 10em;
+  padding: 0.4em;
+  border: 1px solid var(--border);
+  border-radius: 0.5em;
+  background: var(--bg-elev);
+  box-shadow: 0 0.25em 0.75em rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
+}
+.links-menu-popover[hidden] {
+  display: none;
+}
+.links-menu-item {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5em;
+  padding: 0.4em 0.6em;
+  border-radius: 0.35em;
+  color: var(--fg);
   text-decoration: none;
-  font-size: 0.82em;
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
-.dash-home-back:hover {
-  text-decoration: underline;
+.links-menu-item:hover {
+  background: var(--bg);
 }
 .banner-thin {
   text-align: center;
@@ -77,7 +119,7 @@ body.dashboard-shell {
   flex-wrap: nowrap;
   align-items: center;
   gap: 0.2em;
-  /* On one row with the home link now; the chrome owns the gutter +
+  /* On one row with the pages menu; the chrome owns the gutter +
      the bottom divider, so no outer padding / border here. */
 }
 /* Shares the flat-pill aesthetic of the shared `.hive-tab` (sub-tabs on
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.html
deleted file mode 100644
index e02a573c..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,260 +0,0 @@
-<!doctype html>
-<html lang="en">
-  <head>
-    <meta charset="utf-8" />
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
-    <title>hyperhive // h1ve-c0re</title>
-    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/colors.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/theme.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/common.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/dashboard.css" />
-  </head>
-  <body class="dashboard-shell">
-    <!-- Sticky chrome — just the tab strip. The "WE ARE THE WIRED"
-       slug lives at the page footer below `<main>`; chrome is
-       navigation only. Tabs route via the URL hash so F5 / back-
-       button / shared links keep you on the same view. JS owns
-       the show/hide. -->
-    <header class="dashboard-chrome">
-      <!-- Back to the H0M3 menu hub (served at /). Sub-pages and the
-         dashboard all link back to the landing page rather than to each
-         other — H0M3 is the single navigation hub. -->
-      <a class="dash-home-back" href="/" title="back to the H0M3 menu"
-        >← home</a
-      >
-      <nav class="tabbar" id="tabbar" role="tablist">
-        <a
-          class="tab"
-          id="tab-agents"
-          href="#agents"
-          role="tab"
-          aria-controls="tab-pane-agents"
-          data-tab="agents"
-        >
-          <span class="tab-label">◆ 4G3NTS ◆</span>
-          <span class="tab-count" id="tab-count-agents" hidden></span>
-        </a>
-        <!-- SYST3M moved to its own standalone page (/core.html, "C0R3"),
-           reached from the H0M3 hub — keeps the dashboard tab strip lean.
-           The build lifecycle is three tabs here (builds.js): the rebuild
-           queue with its live log, the meta flake inputs, and the build log
-           history. -->
-        <a
-          class="tab"
-          id="tab-rebuild"
-          href="#rebuild"
-          role="tab"
-          aria-controls="tab-pane-rebuild"
-          data-tab="rebuild"
-        >
-          <span class="tab-label">◆ R3BU1LD QU3U3 ◆</span>
-          <span class="tab-count" id="tab-count-rebuild" hidden></span>
-        </a>
-        <a
-          class="tab"
-          id="tab-meta"
-          href="#meta"
-          role="tab"
-          aria-controls="tab-pane-meta"
-          data-tab="meta"
-        >
-          <span class="tab-label">◆ M3T4 1NPUTS ◆</span>
-        </a>
-        <a
-          class="tab"
-          id="tab-buildlogs"
-          href="#buildlogs"
-          role="tab"
-          aria-controls="tab-pane-buildlogs"
-          data-tab="buildlogs"
-        >
-          <span class="tab-label">◆ BUILD L0GS ◆</span>
-        </a>
-
-        <!-- ST4TS lives on its own page now (`/stats.html`), reached from
-           the H0M3 hub — the hive-wide rollup is a standalone read-only
-           view, not part of the operational tab strip. -->
-
-        <!-- (Peer hives are no longer a tab — they render as a headline
-           under 4G3NTS. See tab-pane-agents.) -->
-
-        <!-- FL0W and the other standalone pages are reachable from the
-           H0M3 hub (served at /), not from the dashboard tab strip —
-           the strip holds only in-page tabs. -->
-      </nav>
-    </header>
-
-    <!-- Tab panes. createTabStrip (@hive/shared/tabs.js) keeps exactly one
-       visible by toggling the `hidden` attribute, resolved from the URL
-       hash (default 4G3NTS). Panes start `hidden` to avoid a flash before
-       the script runs. -->
-    <!-- Padded content wrapper: carries the 1.5em side gutter
-       (.page-content, common.css) while <body> stays full-bleed so the
-       sticky chrome above + the footer below span the full width. -->
-    <div class="page-content">
-      <main class="dashboard-main">
-        <!-- 4G3NTS: the agents. Container cards (the central thing
-         the operator looks at) and rebuild queue / cascade visualisation
-         that drives them. No inline `C0NTAINERS` h2 heading + divider
-         — the tab label 4G3NTS already says it. -->
-        <section
-          class="tab-pane"
-          id="tab-pane-agents"
-          data-tab-pane="agents"
-          hidden
-          role="tabpanel"
-          aria-labelledby="tab-agents"
-        >
-          <!-- Swarm / hive identity headline. Populated by refreshState from
-           hive_name + swarm_name; stays hidden when neither is set. -->
-          <h2 id="swarm-identity" hidden></h2>
-          <!-- JobqRollup mount point, kept outside #containers-section
-           deliberately — that section is wiped + rebuilt on every
-           container-list render (see agents.js::renderContainers), which
-           would tear down and remount the Preact tree on every
-           container-state tick. Mounted once by agents.js::initJobqRollup,
-           refreshed via its own handle rather than by re-rendering. -->
-          <div id="jobq-rollup-section"></div>
-          <div id="containers-section">
-            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
-          </div>
-        </section>
-
-        <!-- R3BU1LD QU3U3: pending + running rebuilds, meta-updates, and
-         first-spawns. Rendered from GET /api/jobq/graph by the
-         `JobqGraph` Preact component (@hive/shared/jobq-graph.js);
-         `rebuild_queue_changed` over /api/dashboard/stream is the
-         refresh trigger and carries no payload of its own. -->
-        <section
-          class="tab-pane"
-          id="tab-pane-rebuild"
-          data-tab-pane="rebuild"
-          hidden
-          role="tabpanel"
-          aria-labelledby="tab-rebuild"
-        >
-          <p class="meta">
-            pending + running rebuilds, meta-updates, and first-spawns. one runs
-            at a time; meta-update cascades nest under their parent. dedup:
-            re-enqueueing a still-queued op collapses into the existing entry.
-          </p>
-          <div id="rebuild-queue-section">
-            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
-          </div>
-          <!-- Live build log of the currently-running rebuild (one runs at a
-           time). Managed by renderRebuildLiveLog in builds.js, separate from
-           rebuild-queue-section so the queue's row re-render never disturbs
-           the open poll. -->
-          <div id="rebuild-live-log" class="rebuild-live-log" hidden></div>
-        </section>
-
-        <!-- M3T4 1NPUTS: select inputs to nix flake update in /meta/. -->
-        <section
-          class="tab-pane"
-          id="tab-pane-meta"
-          data-tab-pane="meta"
-          hidden
-          role="tabpanel"
-          aria-labelledby="tab-meta"
-        >
-          <p class="meta">
-            select inputs to <code>nix flake update</code> in
-            <code>/meta/</code>. selected agents rebuild in sequence after the
-            lock bump; the submitting agent learns each outcome via the usual
-            <code>rebuilt</code> system event.
-          </p>
-          <div id="meta-inputs-section">
-            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
-          </div>
-        </section>
-
-        <!-- BUILD L0GS: all-agents build log history. Click a row to expand
-         stdout + stderr. Live builds stream in real time. Lazy-loaded the
-         first time the tab is shown; auto-refreshes when
-         rebuild_queue_changed fires. Deep-link: ?id=N#buildlogs. -->
-        <section
-          class="tab-pane"
-          id="tab-pane-buildlogs"
-          data-tab-pane="buildlogs"
-          hidden
-          role="tabpanel"
-          aria-labelledby="tab-buildlogs"
-        >
-          <p class="meta">
-            all-agents build log history. click a row to expand stdout + stderr.
-            live builds stream in real time.
-          </p>
-          <div class="logs-toolbar">
-            <button type="button" class="btn btn-restart" id="build-refresh">
-              ↻ refresh
-            </button>
-          </div>
-          <div id="build-list"><p class="meta">loading…</p></div>
-        </section>
-
-        <!-- ST4TS: hive-wide turn-stats aggregate lives on its own page now
-         (`/stats.html`), reached from the H0M3 hub. The markup + the
-         hive-stats render JS moved there; when tabs.js boots on the
-         dashboard the renderers are simply gone (no stats tab to
-         activate). -->
-
-        <!-- FL0W: lives on its own page now (`/flow.html`). The
-         message-flow + inbox + compose DOM only exists there — when
-         tabs.js boots on this page the corresponding renderers
-         no-op silently (each guard is `if (!el) return`). -->
-      </main>
-    </div>
-    <!-- /.page-content -->
-
-    <footer>
-      <pre class="banner banner-thin">
-░▒▓█▓▒░ HYPERHIVE / HIVE-C0RE / WE ARE THE WIRED ░▒▓█▓▒░</pre
-      >
-      <div class="divider">
-        ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-      </div>
-      <p>
-        ▲△▲
-        <a href="https://forge.darkest.space/hyperhive/hyperhive">hyperhive</a>
-        ▲△▲ hive-c0re on this host ▲△▲
-      </p>
-    </footer>
-
-    <!-- Slide-in detail panel (clicked file previews, applied config)
-       is a <hive-side-panel> element
-       (@hive/shared/side-panel.js) — the Panel singleton in common.js
-       creates + appends it to <body> lazily on first use, so nothing
-       needs to be pre-declared here. -->
-
-    <!-- Selection action bar. Sticky-bottom strip that slides into
-       view when one or more agent cards is selected (click the icon
-       to toggle). See docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::Selection bar for the bulk
-       action gating + clear semantics. -->
-    <div
-      id="selection-bar"
-      class="selection-bar"
-      hidden
-      role="toolbar"
-      aria-label="bulk agent actions"
-    >
-      <span class="selection-count" id="selection-count"></span>
-      <span class="selection-names" id="selection-names"></span>
-      <span class="selection-actions" id="selection-actions"></span>
-      <button
-        type="button"
-        class="btn selection-clear"
-        id="selection-clear"
-        title="clear selection (esc)"
-      >
-        ✕ clear
-      </button>
-    </div>
-
-    <!-- Single bundled entry — tabs.js is the dashboard tabs surface;
-       flow.html has its own flow.js bundle. esbuild folds
-       @hive/shared/terminal.js and the marked npm package into
-       tabs.js. -->
-    <script type="module" src="/static/tabs.js" defer></script>
-  </body>
-</html>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.html
index d4689b09..bb13ddba 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.html
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.html
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/flow.css" />
   </head>
   <body class="flow-shell">
-    <!-- Minimal chrome: just a back link to the H0M3 hub (served at /).
+    <!-- Minimal chrome: just a back link to the dashboard (served at /).
        No full tabbar — the flow page is a dedicated full-viewport
-       terminal surface; navigating back to the menu is the only chrome
-       needed. Pages link back to H0M3, not the dashboard. -->
+       terminal surface; navigating back is the only chrome needed. -->
     <header class="page-header">
-      <a class="page-back" href="/">← home</a>
+      <a class="page-back" href="/">← dashboard</a>
       <span class="page-title">FL0W</span>
       <select
         id="flow-agent-filter"
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.js
index 8ab591ae..2d4de8a4 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 //
 // Does NOT contain the dashboard's tab renderers, mutation-event
 // dispatchers, or refreshState — that's `./tabs.js`, loaded only by
-// /dashboard.html. The flow page runs purely on the broker stream + an
+// the dashboard. The flow page runs purely on the broker stream + an
 // initial /api/state fetch (compose autocomplete needs the live
 // container list).
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import { epochSec } from "./util.js";
 
   // ─── local containers cache (for compose autocomplete) ──────────────────
   // The compose box's @-mention completion suggests known agent names.
-  // /dashboard.html (tabs.js) maintains the canonical `containersState`
+  // the dashboard (tabs.js) maintains the canonical `containersState`
   // from /api/state + SSE; here we keep a small local mirror updated
   // by the same `container_state_changed` / `container_removed` events
   // the dashboard would handle.
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ import { epochSec } from "./util.js";
         // Drop every other mutation kind silently — without this
         // they'd fall through to the terminal module's default
         // renderer and clutter the log with JSON dumps. The dashboard
-        // tabs handle these on /dashboard.html via tabs.js.
+        // tabs handle these on the dashboard via tabs.js.
         _default: () => {},
       },
       // Re-sync the local containers cache on every SSE (re)connect.
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.css
deleted file mode 100644
index b48ef560..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-/* H0M3 — the menu-hub page. Minimal portal styling: a banner
-   + a responsive grid of link tiles. Colours come from theme.css (the
-   shared palette); base typography from common.css. When the shared
-   page-chrome component lands (a later refactor step) the banner + tile
-   styling can fold into it. */
-
-body.home-shell {
-  /* Full-bleed body; the 1.5em side gutter lives on the inner
-     `.page-content` wrapper (common.css) so the server-warnings banner
-     spans full width. `padding-bottom` keeps breathing room at the foot. */
-  margin: 0;
-  padding-bottom: 2em;
-  min-height: 100vh;
-}
-
-/* Matrix-rain backdrop (driven by home.js). Fixed, full-viewport, dimmed,
-   and behind every other element (z-index below the auto-stacked content).
-   Decorative only — pointer-events off so it never intercepts clicks. The
-   low opacity keeps the menu tiles legible over it; glyph + fade colours
-   are themed from the stylix palette in JS. */
-#matrix-rain {
-  position: fixed;
-  inset: 0;
-  width: 100%;
-  height: 100%;
-  z-index: -1;
-  opacity: 0.16;
-  pointer-events: none;
-}
-
-.home-header {
-  text-align: center;
-  padding: 1.5em 0 0.5em;
-}
-.home-header .banner {
-  font-size: 1.05em;
-}
-
-.home-main {
-  max-width: 60em;
-  margin: 1.5em auto 0;
-}
-
-.home-menu {
-  display: grid;
-  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(16em, 1fr));
-  gap: 1em;
-}
-
-.home-tile {
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.35em;
-  padding: 1.1em 1.2em;
-  border: 1px solid var(--purple-dim);
-  border-radius: 6px;
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--bg-elev) 55%, transparent);
-  text-decoration: none;
-  color: var(--fg);
-  transition:
-    color 0.15s ease,
-    background 0.15s ease,
-    border-color 0.15s ease,
-    box-shadow 0.15s ease;
-}
-.home-tile:hover {
-  border-color: var(--purple);
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--purple) 6%, transparent);
-  box-shadow: 0 -2px 14px -6px
-    color-mix(in srgb, var(--purple) 50%, transparent);
-}
-
-/* Icon + label share the top row of each tile; the description sits
-   below. The icon is decorative (aria-hidden) — the label carries the
-   accessible name. */
-.home-tile-head {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: 0.55em;
-}
-.home-tile-icon {
-  font-size: 1.25em;
-  line-height: 1;
-  flex: none;
-}
-.home-tile-label {
-  font-weight: bold;
-  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
-  color: var(--purple);
-}
-.home-tile-desc {
-  font-size: 0.85em;
-  color: var(--muted);
-}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 108bc015..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/home.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,145 +0,0 @@
-// H0M3 page script. The page is static markup; this only does
-// a few small things off a single `/api/state` read:
-//   1. fill the swarm/hive identity line when configured;
-//   2. render the shared server-warnings banner (top of every page).
-// No SSE — a portal doesn't need live updates.
-//
-// It also drives the decorative matrix-rain backdrop (#matrix-rain) —
-// see startMatrixRain() at the foot.
-
-import { renderServerWarnings } from "./common.js";
-
-const $ = (id) => document.getElementById(id);
-
-async function init() {
-  let state;
-  try {
-    const resp = await fetch("/api/state");
-    if (!resp.ok) return;
-    state = await resp.json();
-  } catch {
-    return; // best-effort: the tiles still work without it
-  }
-
-  renderServerWarnings(state.server_warnings);
-
-  const ident = $("hive-identity");
-  if (ident && (state.swarm_name || state.hive_name)) {
-    const parts = [state.swarm_name, state.hive_name].filter(Boolean);
-    ident.textContent = parts.join(" / ");
-    ident.hidden = false;
-  }
-
-  // Rev line: absent when the flake ref isn't a local path pin (a bare
-  // `github:` url has no on-disk rev to canonicalize) — hidden rather
-  // than showing a placeholder in that case.
-  //
-  // `current_flake_rev` canonicalizes to a nix store path
-  // (/nix/store/<hash>-<pname>) — the part that actually varies between
-  // builds is the hash right after `/nix/store/`, not the trailing
-  // `-<pname>` (constant across revs). Slice the hash out of the front
-  // rather than truncating from the tail, so two different builds don't
-  // render as the same string. Falls back to a plain head-slice for a
-  // non-store path (e.g. a bare local dir during dev).
-  const rev = $("hive-rev");
-  if (rev && state.hyperhive_rev) {
-    const storeMatch = state.hyperhive_rev.match(/^\/nix\/store\/([^-]+)/);
-    const short = storeMatch
-      ? storeMatch[1].slice(0, 12)
-      : state.hyperhive_rev.slice(0, 12);
-    rev.textContent = `rev ${short}`;
-    rev.title = state.hyperhive_rev;
-    rev.hidden = false;
-  }
-}
-
-init();
-
-// ── matrix-rain backdrop ─────────────────────────────────────────────
-// Classic falling-glyph "digital rain" on the #matrix-rain canvas, purely
-// decorative. Colours are resolved from the live stylix palette (--green
-// glyphs, --bg fade-trail) so a theme swap re-colours it; the CSS already
-// dims it + parks it behind the content. Stepped via setInterval (the
-// steppy cadence is the look and costs little CPU); paused while the tab is
-// hidden, and skipped entirely under prefers-reduced-motion.
-function startMatrixRain() {
-  const canvas = $("matrix-rain");
-  if (!canvas || !canvas.getContext) return;
-  if (
-    window.matchMedia &&
-    window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches
-  )
-    return;
-  const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
-
-  // getComputedStyle on a custom property returns its *declared* value
-  // (e.g. "var(--base0B)") unresolved, so resolve to a concrete rgb() by
-  // probing a real `color` computation instead.
-  function resolveColor(varName, fallback) {
-    const probe = document.createElement("span");
-    probe.style.color = `var(${varName})`;
-    probe.style.display = "none";
-    document.body.appendChild(probe);
-    const c = getComputedStyle(probe).color;
-    probe.remove();
-    return /^rgb/.test(c) ? c : fallback;
-  }
-  const glyphColor = resolveColor("--green", "rgb(166, 227, 161)");
-  // Fade-trail = the bg at low alpha. Pull r,g,b numerically rather than
-  // string-rewriting the rgb() — robust to whatever rgb()/rgba() spacing
-  // getComputedStyle hands back, so the trail always fades (never fills
-  // solid) even if the format shifts.
-  const bgRGB = resolveColor("--bg", "rgb(30, 30, 46)").match(
-    /(\d+)[^\d]+(\d+)[^\d]+(\d+)/,
-  );
-  const fadeColor = bgRGB
-    ? `rgba(${bgRGB[1]}, ${bgRGB[2]}, ${bgRGB[3]}, 0.09)`
-    : "rgba(30, 30, 46, 0.09)";
-
-  const GLYPHS = "アイウエオカキクケコサシスセソタチツテト0123456789:=*+-<>¦";
-  const CELL = 16; // glyph cell size (px)
-  let cols = 0;
-  let drops = [];
-
-  function resize() {
-    canvas.width = canvas.offsetWidth;
-    canvas.height = canvas.offsetHeight;
-    cols = Math.max(1, Math.ceil(canvas.width / CELL));
-    drops = Array.from({ length: cols }, () => Math.floor(Math.random() * -40));
-    ctx.font = `${CELL}px monospace`; // canvas reset on resize clears this
-  }
-
-  function tick() {
-    // Translucent bg wash leaves a fading trail behind each glyph.
-    ctx.fillStyle = fadeColor;
-    ctx.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
-    ctx.fillStyle = glyphColor;
-    for (let i = 0; i < cols; i++) {
-      const ch = GLYPHS[(Math.random() * GLYPHS.length) | 0];
-      ctx.fillText(ch, i * CELL, drops[i] * CELL);
-      if (drops[i] * CELL > canvas.height && Math.random() > 0.975)
-        drops[i] = 0;
-      drops[i]++;
-    }
-  }
-
-  let timer = null;
-  const play = () => {
-    if (!timer) timer = setInterval(tick, 55);
-  };
-  const pause = () => {
-    if (timer) {
-      clearInterval(timer);
-      timer = null;
-    }
-  };
-
-  resize();
-  window.addEventListener("resize", resize);
-  document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () =>
-    document.hidden ? pause() : play(),
-  );
-  play();
-}
-
-startMatrixRain();
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/index.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/index.html
index 4e5fd46c..117f9734 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/index.html
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/index.html
@@ -3,90 +3,277 @@
   <head>
     <meta charset="utf-8" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
-    <title>hyperhive // h0m3</title>
+    <title>hyperhive // h1ve-c0re</title>
     <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg" />
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/colors.css" />
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/theme.css" />
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/common.css" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/home.css" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/dashboard.css" />
   </head>
-  <body class="home-shell">
-    <!-- Decorative matrix-rain backdrop: a dimmed full-viewport canvas of
-       falling glyphs behind everything (home.js drives it). aria-hidden +
-       pointer-events:none so it's purely cosmetic; glyph/bg colours are
-       read from the stylix palette at runtime so a theme swap re-colours
-       it, and it's disabled under prefers-reduced-motion. -->
-    <canvas id="matrix-rain" aria-hidden="true"></canvas>
+  <body class="dashboard-shell">
+    <!-- Sticky chrome — just the tab strip. The "WE ARE THE WIRED"
+       slug lives at the page footer below `<main>`; chrome is
+       navigation only. Tabs route via the URL hash so F5 / back-
+       button / shared links keep you on the same view. JS owns
+       the show/hide. -->
+    <header class="dashboard-chrome">
+      <!-- Pages menu: the standalone pages (flow, stats, API docs) and the
+         swarm UI. Filled by links-menu.js from /api/state. The pages link
+         back to `/`, which is this dashboard. -->
+      <div class="links-menu" id="links-menu"></div>
+      <nav class="tabbar" id="tabbar" role="tablist">
+        <a
+          class="tab"
+          id="tab-agents"
+          href="#agents"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-controls="tab-pane-agents"
+          data-tab="agents"
+        >
+          <span class="tab-label">◆ 4G3NTS ◆</span>
+          <span class="tab-count" id="tab-count-agents" hidden></span>
+        </a>
+        <!-- The build lifecycle is three tabs here (builds.js): the rebuild
+           queue with its live log, the meta flake inputs, and the build log
+           history. Kept state (kept.js) is the fourth. -->
+        <a
+          class="tab"
+          id="tab-rebuild"
+          href="#rebuild"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-controls="tab-pane-rebuild"
+          data-tab="rebuild"
+        >
+          <span class="tab-label">◆ R3BU1LD QU3U3 ◆</span>
+          <span class="tab-count" id="tab-count-rebuild" hidden></span>
+        </a>
+        <a
+          class="tab"
+          id="tab-meta"
+          href="#meta"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-controls="tab-pane-meta"
+          data-tab="meta"
+        >
+          <span class="tab-label">◆ M3T4 1NPUTS ◆</span>
+        </a>
+        <a
+          class="tab"
+          id="tab-buildlogs"
+          href="#buildlogs"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-controls="tab-pane-buildlogs"
+          data-tab="buildlogs"
+        >
+          <span class="tab-label">◆ BUILD L0GS ◆</span>
+        </a>
+        <a
+          class="tab"
+          id="tab-kept"
+          href="#kept"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-controls="tab-pane-kept"
+          data-tab="kept"
+        >
+          <span class="tab-label">◆ K3PT ST4T3 ◆</span>
+          <span class="tab-count" id="tab-count-kept" hidden></span>
+        </a>
 
-    <!-- H0M3: the menu hub. A plain grid of links to every top-level
-       surface. This is the page served at `/` — the landing page — with
-       the dashboard relocated to /dashboard.html. No tabbar / SSE —
-       it's a static portal. -->
+        <!-- (Peer hives are no longer a tab — they render as a headline
+           under 4G3NTS. See tab-pane-agents.) -->
+
+        <!-- FL0W and ST4TS are standalone pages reached from the pages
+           menu at the left of this strip, not tabs — the strip holds only
+           in-page tabs. -->
+      </nav>
+    </header>
+
+    <!-- Tab panes. createTabStrip (@hive/shared/tabs.js) keeps exactly one
+       visible by toggling the `hidden` attribute, resolved from the URL
+       hash (default 4G3NTS). Panes start `hidden` to avoid a flash before
+       the script runs. -->
     <!-- Padded content wrapper: carries the 1.5em side gutter
        (.page-content, common.css) while <body> stays full-bleed so the
-       server-warnings banner spans the full width. -->
+       sticky chrome above + the footer below span the full width. -->
     <div class="page-content">
-      <header class="home-header">
-        <p class="banner-thin" id="hive-identity" hidden></p>
-        <pre class="banner">
-░▒▓█▓▒░  ░▒▓█▓▒░  H Y P E R H I V E  ·  H0M3  ░▒▓█▓▒░  ░▒▓█▓▒░</pre
+      <main class="dashboard-main">
+        <!-- 4G3NTS: the agents. Container cards (the central thing
+         the operator looks at) and rebuild queue / cascade visualisation
+         that drives them. No inline `C0NTAINERS` h2 heading + divider
+         — the tab label 4G3NTS already says it. -->
+        <section
+          class="tab-pane"
+          id="tab-pane-agents"
+          data-tab-pane="agents"
+          hidden
+          role="tabpanel"
+          aria-labelledby="tab-agents"
         >
-        <p class="banner-thin" id="hive-rev" hidden></p>
-      </header>
+          <!-- Swarm / hive identity headline. Populated by refreshState from
+           hive_name + swarm_name; stays hidden when neither is set. -->
+          <h2 id="swarm-identity" hidden></h2>
+          <!-- JobqRollup mount point, kept outside #containers-section
+           deliberately — that section is wiped + rebuilt on every
+           container-list render (see agents.js::renderContainers), which
+           would tear down and remount the Preact tree on every
+           container-state tick. Mounted once by agents.js::initJobqRollup,
+           refreshed via its own handle rather than by re-rendering. -->
+          <div id="jobq-rollup-section"></div>
+          <div id="containers-section">
+            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
+          </div>
+        </section>
 
-      <main class="home-main">
-        <nav class="home-menu" aria-label="hyperhive surfaces">
-          <a class="home-tile" href="/dashboard.html">
-            <span class="home-tile-head">
-              <span class="home-tile-icon" aria-hidden="true">🖥</span>
-              <span class="home-tile-label">Dashboard</span>
-            </span>
-            <span class="home-tile-desc">containers · builds</span>
-          </a>
+        <!-- R3BU1LD QU3U3: pending + running rebuilds, meta-updates, and
+         first-spawns. Rendered from GET /api/jobq/graph by the
+         `JobqGraph` Preact component (@hive/shared/jobq-graph.js);
+         `rebuild_queue_changed` over /api/dashboard/stream is the
+         refresh trigger and carries no payload of its own. -->
+        <section
+          class="tab-pane"
+          id="tab-pane-rebuild"
+          data-tab-pane="rebuild"
+          hidden
+          role="tabpanel"
+          aria-labelledby="tab-rebuild"
+        >
+          <p class="meta">
+            pending + running rebuilds, meta-updates, and first-spawns. one runs
+            at a time; meta-update cascades nest under their parent. dedup:
+            re-enqueueing a still-queued op collapses into the existing entry.
+          </p>
+          <div id="rebuild-queue-section">
+            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
+          </div>
+          <!-- Live build log of the currently-running rebuild (one runs at a
+           time). Managed by renderRebuildLiveLog in builds.js, separate from
+           rebuild-queue-section so the queue's row re-render never disturbs
+           the open poll. -->
+          <div id="rebuild-live-log" class="rebuild-live-log" hidden></div>
+        </section>
 
-          <a class="home-tile" href="/flow.html">
-            <span class="home-tile-head">
-              <span class="home-tile-icon" aria-hidden="true">📡</span>
-              <span class="home-tile-label">Flow</span>
-            </span>
-            <span class="home-tile-desc">live all-agents message firehose</span>
-          </a>
+        <!-- M3T4 1NPUTS: select inputs to nix flake update in /meta/. -->
+        <section
+          class="tab-pane"
+          id="tab-pane-meta"
+          data-tab-pane="meta"
+          hidden
+          role="tabpanel"
+          aria-labelledby="tab-meta"
+        >
+          <p class="meta">
+            select inputs to <code>nix flake update</code> in
+            <code>/meta/</code>. selected agents rebuild in sequence after the
+            lock bump; the submitting agent learns each outcome via the usual
+            <code>rebuilt</code> system event.
+          </p>
+          <div id="meta-inputs-section">
+            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
+          </div>
+        </section>
 
-          <a class="home-tile" href="/stats.html">
-            <span class="home-tile-head">
-              <span class="home-tile-icon" aria-hidden="true">📊</span>
-              <span class="home-tile-label">Stats</span>
-            </span>
-            <span class="home-tile-desc"
-              >hive-wide turn stats · cost · model mix</span
-            >
-          </a>
+        <!-- BUILD L0GS: all-agents build log history. Click a row to expand
+         stdout + stderr. Live builds stream in real time. Lazy-loaded the
+         first time the tab is shown; auto-refreshes when
+         rebuild_queue_changed fires. Deep-link: ?id=N#buildlogs. -->
+        <section
+          class="tab-pane"
+          id="tab-pane-buildlogs"
+          data-tab-pane="buildlogs"
+          hidden
+          role="tabpanel"
+          aria-labelledby="tab-buildlogs"
+        >
+          <p class="meta">
+            all-agents build log history. click a row to expand stdout + stderr.
+            live builds stream in real time.
+          </p>
+          <div class="logs-toolbar">
+            <button type="button" class="btn btn-restart" id="build-refresh">
+              ↻ refresh
+            </button>
+          </div>
+          <div id="build-list"><p class="meta">loading…</p></div>
+        </section>
 
-          <a class="home-tile" href="/core.html">
-            <span class="home-tile-head">
-              <span class="home-tile-icon" aria-hidden="true">⬡</span>
-              <span class="home-tile-label">Core</span>
-            </span>
-            <span class="home-tile-desc">kept state</span>
-          </a>
+        <!-- K3PT ST4T3: kept state from agents whose container is absent,
+         with a purge button per row. Rendered by kept.js; refreshed by the
+         `tombstones_changed` stream event. -->
+        <section
+          class="tab-pane"
+          id="tab-pane-kept"
+          data-tab-pane="kept"
+          hidden
+          role="tabpanel"
+          aria-labelledby="tab-kept"
+        >
+          <p class="meta">
+            kept state from previously tombstoned agents — recreating an agent
+            with the same name reuses it.
+          </p>
+          <div id="tombstones-section">
+            <p class="meta">loading…</p>
+          </div>
+        </section>
 
-          <!-- API tile: the OpenAPI spec + Swagger UI are always served by
-           hive-c0re itself (docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::Dashboard
-           endpoints), so this tile is never gated/hidden. -->
-          <a class="home-tile" href="/api/docs">
-            <span class="home-tile-head">
-              <span class="home-tile-icon" aria-hidden="true">🧬</span>
-              <span class="home-tile-label">API</span>
-            </span>
-            <span class="home-tile-desc"
-              >interactive OpenAPI spec (Swagger UI)</span
-            >
-          </a>
-        </nav>
+        <!-- ST4TS and FL0W live on their own pages (`/stats.html`,
+         `/flow.html`). Their DOM only exists there — when tabs.js boots
+         on this page the corresponding renderers no-op silently (each
+         guard is `if (!el) return`). -->
       </main>
     </div>
     <!-- /.page-content -->
 
-    <script type="module" src="/static/home.js" defer></script>
+    <footer>
+      <pre class="banner banner-thin">
+░▒▓█▓▒░ HYPERHIVE / HIVE-C0RE / WE ARE THE WIRED ░▒▓█▓▒░</pre
+      >
+      <div class="divider">
+        ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+      </div>
+      <p>
+        ▲△▲
+        <a href="https://forge.darkest.space/hyperhive/hyperhive">hyperhive</a>
+        ▲△▲ hive-c0re on this host ▲△▲
+      </p>
+      <!-- Short build id of the running hive; filled from hyperhive_rev. -->
+      <p class="meta" id="hive-rev" hidden></p>
+    </footer>
+
+    <!-- Slide-in detail panel (clicked file previews, applied config)
+       is a <hive-side-panel> element
+       (@hive/shared/side-panel.js) — the Panel singleton in common.js
+       creates + appends it to <body> lazily on first use, so nothing
+       needs to be pre-declared here. -->
+
+    <!-- Selection action bar. Sticky-bottom strip that slides into
+       view when one or more agent cards is selected (click the icon
+       to toggle). See docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::Selection bar for the bulk
+       action gating + clear semantics. -->
+    <div
+      id="selection-bar"
+      class="selection-bar"
+      hidden
+      role="toolbar"
+      aria-label="bulk agent actions"
+    >
+      <span class="selection-count" id="selection-count"></span>
+      <span class="selection-names" id="selection-names"></span>
+      <span class="selection-actions" id="selection-actions"></span>
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        class="btn selection-clear"
+        id="selection-clear"
+        title="clear selection (esc)"
+      >
+        ✕ clear
+      </button>
+    </div>
+
+    <!-- Single bundled entry — tabs.js is the dashboard tabs surface;
+       flow.html has its own flow.js bundle. esbuild folds
+       @hive/shared/terminal.js and the marked npm package into
+       tabs.js. -->
+    <script type="module" src="/static/tabs.js" defer></script>
   </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/kept.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/kept.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a3b357f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/kept.js
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// K3PT ST4T3 tab of the dashboard: kept state from agents whose container
+// is absent (tombstones), with a purge button per row. Owns its slice of
+// state like agents.js / builds.js do; tabs.js feeds it the /api/state
+// snapshot and the `tombstones_changed` stream event.
+
+import { $, form } from "./common.js";
+import { el } from "@hive/shared/dom.js";
+
+let tombstonesState = [];
+
+const fmtBytes = (n) => {
+  if (n < 1024) return n + " B";
+  if (n < 1024 * 1024) return (n / 1024).toFixed(1) + " KB";
+  if (n < 1024 * 1024 * 1024) return (n / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(1) + " MB";
+  return (n / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2) + " GB";
+};
+
+const fmtAgeDays = (ts) => {
+  if (!ts) return "?";
+  const d = Math.floor((Date.now() / 1000 - ts) / 86400);
+  if (d <= 0) return "today";
+  if (d === 1) return "1 day ago";
+  return d + " days ago";
+};
+
+/** Number of kept-state entries, for the tab's count pill. */
+export function keptCount() {
+  return tombstonesState.length;
+}
+
+export function syncKeptFromSnapshot(s) {
+  tombstonesState = (s.tombstones || []).slice();
+}
+
+export function renderKept() {
+  const root = $("tombstones-section");
+  if (!root) return;
+  root.replaceChildren();
+  if (!tombstonesState.length) {
+    root.append(el("p", { class: "empty" }, "no kept state — clean"));
+    return;
+  }
+  // Only shown alongside actual rows — a caveat over an empty list is noise.
+  // Wording is deliberately about what the list *is* rather than what it
+  // isn't: nothing records a destroy, so "container absent" is the only thing
+  // the backend can actually tell.
+  const warn = el("hive-warn", { level: "warning" });
+  warn.append(
+    el("strong", {}, "shows every agent whose container is absent"),
+    " — not only destroyed ones. An agent part-way through being spawned " +
+      "looks identical here, because nothing records a destroy. Check it is " +
+      "really gone before you PURG3.",
+  );
+  root.append(warn);
+  const ul = el("ul", { class: "containers" });
+  for (const t of tombstonesState) {
+    const li = el("li", { class: "container-row tombstone" });
+    const head = el("div", { class: "head" });
+    head.append(
+      el("span", { class: "name" }, t.name),
+      // `offline` is what the absence of a container proves; `destroyed`
+      // is something the backend cannot know — see the caveat above.
+      el("span", { class: "hive-pill-sm badge-muted" }, "offline"),
+    );
+    if (t.has_creds)
+      head.append(
+        el("span", { class: "hive-pill-sm badge-muted" }, "creds kept"),
+      );
+    head.append(
+      el(
+        "span",
+        { class: "meta" },
+        `${fmtBytes(t.state_bytes)} · ${fmtAgeDays(t.last_seen)}`,
+      ),
+    );
+    li.append(head);
+
+    const actions = el("div", { class: "actions" });
+    actions.append(
+      form(
+        "/api/purge-tombstone/" + t.name,
+        "btn-destroy",
+        "PURG3",
+        "PURGE " +
+          t.name +
+          "? config history, claude creds, " +
+          "and notes are all WIPED. no undo.",
+        {},
+        { noRefresh: true },
+      ),
+    );
+    li.append(actions);
+    ul.append(li);
+  }
+  root.append(ul);
+}
+
+/** `tombstones_changed` stream event: replace the list and re-render. */
+export function applyTombstonesChanged(ev) {
+  tombstonesState = (ev.tombstones || []).slice();
+  renderKept();
+}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/links-menu.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/links-menu.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6707ca85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/links-menu.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+// Pages menu in the dashboard chrome: one button that opens a popover
+// linking the standalone pages (flow, stats, API docs) and the swarm UI.
+// Modelled on the swarm UI's `LinksMenu`. The swarm entry only exists
+// when `/api/state` carries `swarm_public_url`, so a hive without a
+// configured swarm domain shows no dead link.
+
+import { $ } from "./common.js";
+import { el } from "@hive/shared/dom.js";
+
+/** Menu entries for a state snapshot. `external` opens in a new tab. */
+export function menuLinks(state) {
+  const links = [
+    { icon: "📡", label: "flow", url: "/flow.html" },
+    { icon: "📊", label: "stats", url: "/stats.html" },
+    { icon: "🧬", label: "api docs", url: "/api/docs/" },
+  ];
+  if (state && state.swarm_public_url) {
+    links.push({
+      icon: "🐝",
+      label: "swarm",
+      url: state.swarm_public_url,
+      external: true,
+    });
+  }
+  return links;
+}
+
+let wired = false;
+
+function closeMenu(root) {
+  const pop = root.querySelector(".links-menu-popover");
+  const btn = root.querySelector(".links-menu-button");
+  if (pop) pop.hidden = true;
+  if (btn) btn.setAttribute("aria-expanded", "false");
+}
+
+function wire(root) {
+  if (wired) return;
+  wired = true;
+  root.querySelector(".links-menu-button").addEventListener("click", () => {
+    const pop = root.querySelector(".links-menu-popover");
+    const btn = root.querySelector(".links-menu-button");
+    pop.hidden = !pop.hidden;
+    btn.setAttribute("aria-expanded", String(!pop.hidden));
+  });
+  // Outside click / Escape close the popover.
+  document.addEventListener("pointerdown", (e) => {
+    if (!root.contains(e.target)) closeMenu(root);
+  });
+  document.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
+    if (e.key === "Escape") closeMenu(root);
+  });
+}
+
+/** (Re)render the menu into `#links-menu`. Safe to call on every state
+ *  refresh: the open/closed state lives on the popover element, which is
+ *  kept; only its items are rebuilt. */
+export function renderLinksMenu(state) {
+  const root = $("links-menu");
+  if (!root) return;
+  if (!root.firstChild) {
+    root.append(
+      el(
+        "button",
+        {
+          type: "button",
+          class: "links-menu-button",
+          "aria-haspopup": "true",
+          "aria-expanded": "false",
+          "aria-label": "pages",
+          title: "pages",
+        },
+        "☰",
+      ),
+      el("div", { class: "links-menu-popover", role: "menu", hidden: "" }),
+    );
+  }
+  const pop = root.querySelector(".links-menu-popover");
+  pop.replaceChildren(
+    ...menuLinks(state).map((link) => {
+      const attrs = {
+        class: "links-menu-item",
+        href: link.url,
+        role: "menuitem",
+      };
+      if (link.external) {
+        attrs.target = "_blank";
+        attrs.rel = "noreferrer";
+      }
+      return el(
+        "a",
+        attrs,
+        el("span", { "aria-hidden": "true" }, link.icon),
+        link.label,
+      );
+    }),
+  );
+  wire(root);
+}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/stats.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/stats.html
index 7a062909..45c03776 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/stats.html
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/stats.html
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
   <body class="stats-shell">
     <!-- Minimal chrome: back link + title. Same pattern as flow.html —
        no full dashboard tabbar. Back link points to the
-       H0M3 hub (served at /), not the dashboard. -->
+       dashboard (served at /). -->
     <header class="page-header">
-      <a class="page-back" href="/">← home</a>
+      <a class="page-back" href="/">← dashboard</a>
       <span class="page-title">ST4TS</span>
-      <!-- Window selector lives in the header so it behaves like a tab strip
-         (matches the sub-tab strips on /core.html). Hash-routed via createTabStrip. -->
+      <!-- Window selector lives in the header so it behaves like a tab strip.
+         Hash-routed via createTabStrip. -->
       <nav class="hive-stats-windows" id="hive-stats-windows" role="tablist">
         <button type="button" class="btn" data-tab="1h">1h</button>
         <button type="button" class="btn" data-tab="4h">4h</button>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/system-sections.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/system-sections.css
index ae046ab2..7d2cdd67 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/system-sections.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/system-sections.css
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-/* ─── SYST3M/BU1LDS section panels — shared by dashboard and /core.html ───
+/* ─── SYST3M/BU1LDS section panels — used by the dashboard ───
    Rebuild queue, meta inputs and kept-state panels.
-   Imported by core.css and dashboard.css. */
+   Imported by dashboard.css. */
 
 /* ─── meta inputs panel ────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .meta-inputs {
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
index 4e2865da..7f267b41 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// /dashboard.html entry point: tab renderers + tab routing + refreshState.
+// the dashboard entry point: tab renderers + tab routing + refreshState.
 // Reads /api/state on cold load and after every async-form submit; live
 // updates run through `applyXxx` mutation handlers triggered by the
 // dashboard event stream (subscribed via `openStream` from common.js). See
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // Pure helpers (DOM, side panel, path linkification)
 // live in `./common.js`; the flow-page surface (broker
 // terminal, @-mention composer) lives in `./flow.js` — `flow.html` and
-// `dashboard.html` each load their own bundle.
+// `index.html` each load their own bundle.
 // 4G3NTS (containers) domain lives in `./agents.js`.
 
 import { marked } from "marked";
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ import {
   rebuildCount,
   syncBuildsFromSnapshot,
 } from "./builds.js";
+import {
+  applyTombstonesChanged,
+  keptCount,
+  renderKept,
+  syncKeptFromSnapshot,
+} from "./kept.js";
+import { renderLinksMenu } from "./links-menu.js";
 
 // mdNode (in common.js) reads `window.marked` for the markdown side
 // panel preview path. Set it here on the dashboard entry so file
@@ -44,8 +51,8 @@ window.marked = marked;
 
 (() => {
   // ─── async forms ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  // Shared `data-async` submit interceptor (now in common.js so /core.html's
-  // bundle gets it too). On success it re-runs refreshState unless the form
+  // Shared `data-async` submit interceptor (in common.js, shared with the other
+  // pages' bundles). On success it re-runs refreshState unless the form
   // opts out via `data-no-refresh` (its mutation arrives via an SSE event).
   bindAsyncForms(() => refreshState());
 
@@ -95,6 +102,22 @@ window.marked = marked;
     });
   }
 
+  // Rev line in the footer: absent when the flake ref isn't a local path
+  // pin (a bare `github:` url has no on-disk rev to canonicalize), so it
+  // stays hidden rather than showing a placeholder. `hyperhive_rev`
+  // canonicalizes to a nix store path (/nix/store/<hash>-<pname>); the
+  // part that varies between builds is the hash, so slice that out rather
+  // than truncating from the tail. Falls back to a plain head-slice for a
+  // non-store path (e.g. a bare local dir during dev).
+  function renderHiveRev(rev) {
+    const node = $("hive-rev");
+    if (!node || !rev) return;
+    const storeMatch = rev.match(/^\/nix\/store\/([^-]+)/);
+    node.textContent = `rev ${(storeMatch ? storeMatch[1] : rev).slice(0, 12)}`;
+    node.title = rev;
+    node.hidden = false;
+  }
+
   async function refreshState() {
     // Don't yank the form out from under the operator. Try again
     // shortly on the next tick; eventually they'll blur and the
@@ -144,7 +167,11 @@ window.marked = marked;
       // mount's own effect handles the actual fetch.
       initJobqRollup();
       syncBuildsFromSnapshot(s);
+      syncKeptFromSnapshot(s);
       renderContainers(s);
+      renderKept();
+      renderLinksMenu(s);
+      renderHiveRev(s.hyperhive_rev);
       restoreOpenDetails(openDetails);
       // No periodic refresh timer. Phase 6 covers every container
       // mutation with `ContainerStateChanged` / `ContainerRemoved`
@@ -181,7 +208,7 @@ window.marked = marked;
   // lost during the disconnect window (same pattern as flow.js's
   // onStreamOpen).
   //
-  // Both /dashboard.html and /flow.html subscribe to `/api/dashboard/stream`
+  // Both the dashboard and /flow.html subscribe to `/api/dashboard/stream`
   // and filter client-side — the dashboard ignores broker traffic
   // and FL0W ignores mutation events.
   const MUTATION_HANDLERS = {
@@ -198,6 +225,7 @@ window.marked = marked;
     },
     meta_inputs_changed: onMetaInputsChanged,
     meta_update_running: onMetaUpdateRunning,
+    tombstones_changed: applyTombstonesChanged,
   };
   (function bindDashboardStream() {
     // Route through the SharedWorker so all open hyperhive tabs on the
@@ -208,12 +236,12 @@ window.marked = marked;
     // fallback when SharedWorker isn't supported.
     //
     // kinds= matches MUTATION_HANDLERS verbatim, so the stream carries
-    // only the 7 wire kinds this page acts on.
+    // only the 8 wire kinds this page acts on.
     const es = openStream(
       "/api/dashboard/stream?kinds=" +
         "transient_set,transient_cleared," +
         "container_state_changed,container_removed,rebuild_queue_changed," +
-        "meta_inputs_changed,meta_update_running",
+        "meta_inputs_changed,meta_update_running,tombstones_changed",
     );
     es.onmessage = (e) => {
       let ev;
@@ -245,11 +273,11 @@ window.marked = marked;
   })();
 
   // ─── tab routing ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  // Hash-based: `#agents` / `#rebuild` / `#meta` / `#buildlogs`
+  // Hash-based: `#agents` / `#rebuild` / `#meta` / `#buildlogs` / `#kept`
   // activate the matching pane on the dashboard. Empty
   // hash defaults to 4G3NTS. FL0W and ST4TS are NOT tabs —
   // they're separate pages (`/flow.html`, `/stats.html`) reached from
-  // the H0M3 hub. Tab routing only
+  // the pages menu (links-menu.js). Tab routing only
   // applies when the tab DOM is present (e.g. not on the flow page
   // itself, where these elements don't exist and the loop no-ops).
   // The shared hash-routed tab strip (@hive/shared/tabs.js) owns the
@@ -299,6 +327,8 @@ window.marked = marked;
     setTabCount("agents", stale);
     // R3BU1LD QU3U3 — rebuilds in flight.
     setTabCount("rebuild", rebuildCount());
+    // K3PT ST4T3 — entries of kept state.
+    setTabCount("kept", keptCount());
   }
   // Poll the state stores on a 1s tick to keep the pill counts in
   // sync. The state stores are mutated synchronously by every SSE
diff --git a/frontend/packages/shared/src/chrome.css b/frontend/packages/shared/src/chrome.css
index 388b238d..8146b297 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/shared/src/chrome.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/shared/src/chrome.css
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* ─── page chrome: back-link header ────────────────────────────────
    The minimal sticky "frosted bar" header used by every standalone page
-   reached from the H0M3 hub — /flow, /stats, /core. A back
-   link to H0M3 on the left, then either a page title or (on /core) a
+   reached from the dashboard's pages menu — /flow, /stats. A back
+   link to the dashboard on the left, then a page title and, on /stats, a
    sub-tab nav. The operator dashboard uses its own richer
    sticky chrome (`.dashboard-chrome`); these classes cover the simple
    pages.
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/LinksMenu.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/LinksMenu.tsx
index 01606eb1..7512e53c 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/LinksMenu.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/LinksMenu.tsx
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 // The list is entirely server-driven (see swarm-controller's
 // `services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.links` option) — 0 entries
 // hides the button rather than showing an empty popover, same "don't
-// render a dead affordance" rule the old dashboard's H0M3 tiles follow
-// for Forge/Matrix.
+// render a dead affordance" rule the dashboard's pages menu follows for
+// its swarm entry.
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "preact/hooks";
 import { LinkIcon } from "@hive/shared/icons.js";
 import "./LinksMenu.css";
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx
index da960376..4a9c3f60 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/MatrixRain.tsx
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 // Stepped on an interval (the steppy cadence is the look, and it costs
 // little), paused while the tab is hidden, and stopped (and cleared) when
 // motion is reduced: the settings menu's `data-motion` override wins over
-// `prefers-reduced-motion`, and is followed live. The same effect as the hive dashboard's home
-// page, which is plain JS over a fixed canvas.
+// `prefers-reduced-motion`, and is followed live.
 import { useEffect, useRef } from "preact/hooks";
 import {
   CELL,
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/dashboard/state_snapshot.rs b/hive-c0re/src/dashboard/state_snapshot.rs
index c9a22235..a3a62233 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/dashboard/state_snapshot.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/dashboard/state_snapshot.rs
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ pub(super) struct StateSnapshot {
     /// which is only right by accident on deployments that aren't
     /// plain localhost.
     forge_public_url: Option<String>,
+    /// Browser URL of the swarm UI (the swarm apex domain). Sourced from
+    /// `HIVE_SWARM_PUBLIC_URL`, which the c0re NixOS module sets from
+    /// `services.hyperhive.swarm.domain`. `None` when the domain is unset —
+    /// the dashboard's pages menu then omits the swarm entry.
+    swarm_public_url: Option<String>,
     /// Human name of this single-host hive instance (e.g. `"pr1ma"`).
     /// Sourced from `HYPERHIVE_HIVE_NAME` env var, set by the c0re
     /// NixOS module from `services.hyperhive.hiveName`. `None` when
@@ -219,6 +224,9 @@ pub(super) async fn api_state(
         forge_public_url: std::env::var("HIVE_FORGE_PUBLIC_URL")
             .ok()
             .filter(|s| !s.is_empty()),
+        swarm_public_url: std::env::var("HIVE_SWARM_PUBLIC_URL")
+            .ok()
+            .filter(|s| !s.is_empty()),
         hive_name: std::env::var("HYPERHIVE_HIVE_NAME")
             .ok()
             .filter(|s| !s.is_empty()),
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/hive-c0re/environment.nix b/nix/host-modules/hive-c0re/environment.nix
index 549078e5..ad8ba96a 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/hive-c0re/environment.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/hive-c0re/environment.nix
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ in
   # forge links rather than emitting one it can't justify.
   HIVE_FORGE_PUBLIC_URL = config.services.hyperhive.swarm.forge.publicUrl;
 }
+// lib.optionalAttrs (config.services.hyperhive.swarm.domain != null) {
+  # Browser URL of the swarm UI, which answers on the swarm apex domain
+  # (see ../swarm-ui.nix). The dashboard links to it from its pages menu.
+  # Absent when the domain is unset, so the link is hidden rather than
+  # guessed.
+  HIVE_SWARM_PUBLIC_URL = "https://${config.services.hyperhive.swarm.domain}/";
+}
 // lib.optionalAttrs (config.services.hyperhive.swarm.matrix.gatewayHost != null) {
   # Browser-facing matrix GUI (fluffychat) URL — the gateway
   # vhost (`gatewayHost`, `chat.<swarm-domain>` by default). Surfaced via the daemon's `Urls`
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/hive-forge/service.nix b/nix/host-modules/hive-forge/service.nix
index 17d652de..18f4e60e 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/hive-forge/service.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/hive-forge/service.nix
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ in
       example = "https://forge.example.com";
       description = ''
         Browser-facing forge URL the dashboard uses to build clickable
-        forge links (the H0M3 Forge tile, per-agent-row forge links) —
+        forge links (the per-agent-row forge links) —
         sourced into every agent container + hive-c0re as
         `HIVE_FORGE_PUBLIC_URL`.
 
         Defaults to `https://''${cfg.domain}`, the gateway vhost. When
         `null`, the dashboard **hides** forge links rather than
-        guessing one — see `docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::H0M3 page` for
+        guessing one — see `docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::Container row` for
         the rationale (a link built from the operator's own browser
         hostname + a container port is only an accident away from
         wrong on any deployment that isn't plain localhost).
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/hive-gateway/vhosts.nix b/nix/host-modules/hive-gateway/vhosts.nix
index 49d19291..e1e9a68c 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/hive-gateway/vhosts.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/hive-gateway/vhosts.nix
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ let
   # files — hive-c0re serves none of this as a fallback.
   # `= /api/docs` (no trailing slash) redirects to `/api/docs/`: nginx
   # owns that redirect because hive-c0re has no route for it, and the
-  # H0M3 hub's own `/api/docs` link (no trailing slash) would 404
+  # the dashboard's own `/api/docs` links (no trailing slash) would 404
   # without it.
   swaggerUiLocations = {
     "= /api/docs" = {
diff --git a/nix/packages/frontend.nix b/nix/packages/frontend.nix
index 02b5b9b5..4aaace02 100644
--- a/nix/packages/frontend.nix
+++ b/nix/packages/frontend.nix
@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@
 #
 #   $out/dashboard/   the hive-c0re dashboard assets (full layout in
 #                     frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs):
-#       index.html (H0M3 hub, served at /) dashboard.html (operator SPA,
-#       served at /dashboard.html) flow.html
+#       index.html (operator SPA, served at /) flow.html
 #       stats.html favicon.svg
-#       static/{home,tabs,flow,stats,stream-worker}.js{,.map}
-#       static/{colors,theme,common,home,dashboard,flow,stats}.css
+#       static/{tabs,flow,stats,stream-worker}.js{,.map}
+#       static/{colors,theme,common,dashboard,flow,stats}.css
 #   $out/agent/       the per-agent default UI (layered with
 #                     hyperhive.frontend.extraFiles at activation time)
 #       index.html stats.html screen.html