diff --git a/docs/web-ui/agent.md b/docs/web-ui/agent.md
index 899a9c3a..fb956086 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/agent.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/agent.md
@@ -69,29 +69,34 @@ structurally rather than for one specific trigger. Two columns:
     unprivileged process can't make directly).
   - **Inbox / todos pills** (`📬 inbox · N` / `📋 todos · N`): hidden
     when empty; click opens the matching flyout in the side panel.
-  - **Links badge** (`🔗`): opens a popover listing 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 `hyperhive.dashboardLinks` extras) as real
-    `<a>` elements — not a `Dropdown`-style command list, so
-    ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address" keep working. Each
-    `AgentLink.kind` resolves differently: `container` → same-origin
-    path; `forge` → `state.forge_public_url + url`, and the link is
-    dropped entirely when that's unset (never guessed from
+  - **Links badge** (`🔗`): opens a popover listing `↑ dashboard`
+    (back-link to the host dashboard, `${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`)
+    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 `hyperhive.dashboardLinks`
+    extras) — all as real `<a>` elements, not a `Dropdown`-style
+    command list, so ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address" keep
+    working. Each `AgentLink.kind` resolves differently: `container` →
+    same-origin path; `forge` → `state.forge_public_url + url`, and the
+    link is dropped entirely when that's unset (never guessed from
     `<host>:3000`); `external` → already absolute. Same source
     (`GET /api/state`'s `links` field) also feeds
     `DashboardState.links` for the dashboard card's icon strip —
     `agent_links()` in hive-agent is the single source of truth for
-    both.
-  - **Overflow badge** (`⋯`): a `Dropdown` with two rows —
-    `↑ dashboard` (link) and `↻ rebuild container` (select-twice
-    confirm, same action as the dashboard R3BU1LD button). Everything
-    else that used to live here (model/effort pickers, new-session,
-    logout) has a better home now: pickers are real badges above, and
-    `/new-session` / `/logout` are typed slash commands with their own
-    type-twice confirm (see below) — a modal doesn't fit a text-input
-    flow, and burying rare-but-important actions in one flat menu was
-    the design guide's own named anti-example.
+    both. There is no separate overflow (`⋯`) menu any more — it used
+    to hold exactly this dashboard link plus a rebuild-container action
+    (mara, hyperhive#3704: "remove rebuild button, move link to
+    dashboards into links menu") — rebuild had no real discoverability
+    need of its own (the dashboard's own R3BU1LD button already covers
+    it) so it's gone outright, and the dashboard link moved here,
+    leaving nothing to justify a separate menu. Everything else that
+    used to live in the old overflow menu (model/effort pickers,
+    new-session, logout) already had a better home before this: pickers
+    are real badges above, and `/new-session` / `/logout` are typed
+    slash commands with their own type-twice confirm (see below) — a
+    modal doesn't fit a text-input flow, and burying rare-but-important
+    actions in one flat menu was the design guide's own named
+    anti-example.
   - No header cancel-turn button any more — `/cancel` (slash command,
     below) is the only path; the turn-loop state badge already shows
     `thinking` as the discoverability cue.
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/Root.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/Root.tsx
index baae05ed..d2124074 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/Root.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/Root.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import { SidePanel } from './components/SidePanel.js';
 import { InboxPanel } from './components/InboxPanel.js';
 import { TodosPanel } from './components/TodosPanel.js';
 import { TermInput } from './components/TermInput.js';
-import { OverflowMenu } from './components/OverflowMenu.js';
 import { LoginFlow } from './components/LoginFlow.js';
 import { useAgentState } from './hooks/useAgentState.js';
 import { useTodos } from './hooks/useTodos.js';
@@ -89,11 +88,18 @@ export function Root() {
     <>
       <HeaderPill kind="inbox" icon="📬" label="inbox" count={state?.inbox.length ?? 0} onClick={() => setOpenPanel('inbox')} />
       <HeaderPill kind="todos" icon="📋" label="todos" count={todos.length} onClick={() => setOpenPanel('todos')} />
-      {/* Needs a loaded snapshot for their data (links/forge_public_url,
-       * dashboard_port) — both omitted (like the old page's
-       * populateOverflowMenu) until the first /api/state resolves. */}
-      {state ? <MetaNav links={state.links} forgePublicUrl={state.forge_public_url} /> : null}
-      {state ? <OverflowMenu label={state.label} dashboardBase={resolveDashboardBase(state.dashboard_port)} /> : null}
+      {/* Needs a loaded snapshot for its data (links/forge_public_url,
+       * dashboard_port) — omitted until the first /api/state resolves,
+       * same as the old page's populateOverflowMenu (now deleted —
+       * dashboard-link moved here, rebuild removed outright, see
+       * MetaNav.tsx's file comment). */}
+      {state ? (
+        <MetaNav
+          links={state.links}
+          forgePublicUrl={state.forge_public_url}
+          dashboardBase={resolveDashboardBase(state.dashboard_port)}
+        />
+      ) : null}
     </>
   );
   // Kept mounted regardless of `openPanel` (open/closed toggles just the
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.css b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.css
index 3c957fa7..84e9d5c7 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.css
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@
    same "reuse the values, not the component" call `.login-card`
    (LoginFlow.css) already made, for the same reason: this popover's
    items are real `<a>` tags, not `Dropdown`'s command-dispatch
-   `<button>`s. Right-anchored, same as OverflowMenu.css's
-   `.header-overflow-anchor` — MetaNav sits in the same right-hand
-   pills cluster, so a left anchor would push it off-screen the same
-   way. */
+   `<button>`s. Right-anchored — MetaNav sits in the header's right-hand
+   pills cluster, so a left anchor would push it off-screen. */
 .meta-nav-anchor {
   position: relative;
   display: inline-block;
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
index 3792493a..985055e1 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
@@ -2,26 +2,27 @@
 // ("🔗") in the pills cluster that opens a popover listing
 // stats/screen/forge/config + any `hyperhive.dashboardLinks` extras,
 // sourced from the backend's `agent_links()` (the single source of
-// truth — same list also feeds the dashboard card's icon strip).
-//
+// truth — same list also feeds the dashboard card's icon strip) — plus
+// a `↑ dashboard` back-link, formerly the overflow menu's job (mara:
+// "remove rebuild button, move link to dashboards into links menu" —
+// the overflow `⋯` trigger existed for exactly two items, dashboard-
+// link and rebuild; rebuild's gone outright, the dashboard's own
+// R3BU1LD button already covers it, dashboard-link moves here, so
+// `OverflowMenu` had nothing left to justify existing and is deleted).
+
 // v1 of this rendered every link inline in the header's title row —
 // mara, live: "the login card looks like it is behind the header"
 // (a variable-width link list can grow the title row past the fixed
 // `--agent-header-h` the rest of the page is offset against — see
 // Header.tsx's comment) and "the links should have the same popout as
-// the links in the nav bar of swarm-ui." This is that: same shape as
-// swarm-ui's own `LinksMenu` (Shell/LinksMenu.tsx) — one quiet icon
-// trigger, a popover on click, real `<a>` items (not a command-dispatch
-// button list) so ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address" keep
-// working. Trigger itself reuses `@hive/shared`'s `Badge` (icon-only,
-// same shape as the header's `⋯` overflow trigger — same touch target,
-// same hover/expanded treatment, one visual language for every header
-// trigger) rather than a bespoke button. The popover isn't built from
-// `@hive/shared`'s `Dropdown` — its items are always `<button>`s
-// (command dispatch), which would lose real link semantics — but
-// matches its `.ui-dropdown` visual values exactly (see MetaNav.css),
-// the same "reuse the values, not the component" call `LoginFlow`'s
-// `.login-card` already made for the same reason.
+// the links in the nav bar of swarm-ui." This is that: one quiet icon
+// trigger (reuses `@hive/shared`'s `Badge`, icon-only), a popover on
+// click, real `<a>` items — not `@hive/shared`'s `Dropdown` (its items
+// are always `<button>`s for command dispatch, which would lose real
+// link semantics like ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address") —
+// but matching its `.ui-dropdown` visual values exactly (see
+// MetaNav.css), the same "reuse the values, not the component" call
+// `LoginFlow`'s `.login-card` already made for the same reason.
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'preact/hooks';
 import { Badge } from '@hive/shared/badge.js';
 import type { AgentLink } from '../types.js';
@@ -30,9 +31,12 @@ import './MetaNav.css';
 export interface MetaNavProps {
   links: AgentLink[];
   forgePublicUrl: string | null;
+  /** Absolute base URL of the host dashboard (`resolveDashboardBase`)
+   * — the `↑ dashboard` item links to `${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`. */
+  dashboardBase: string;
 }
 
-export function MetaNav({ links, forgePublicUrl }: MetaNavProps) {
+export function MetaNav({ links, forgePublicUrl, dashboardBase }: MetaNavProps) {
   const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
   const rootRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
 
@@ -58,13 +62,24 @@ export function MetaNav({ links, forgePublicUrl }: MetaNavProps) {
   // entirely (never guessed from `<host>:3000`); `external` is already
   // absolute; `container` is a same-origin path.
   const visible = links.filter((lnk) => lnk.kind !== 'forge' || forgePublicUrl);
-  if (visible.length === 0) return null;
+  // No early-return-on-empty any more — the dashboard link below is
+  // always present, so the trigger always has at least one item.
 
   return (
     <div class="meta-nav-anchor" ref={rootRef}>
       <Badge value="🔗" title="agent links" onClick={() => setOpen((o) => !o)} expanded={open} />
       {open ? (
         <div class="meta-nav-popover" role="menu" aria-label="agent links">
+          <a
+            class="meta-nav-item"
+            href={`${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`}
+            target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener"
+            role="menuitem"
+            onClick={() => setOpen(false)}
+          >
+            ↑ dashboard
+          </a>
           {visible.map((lnk) => {
             const href = lnk.kind === 'forge' ? `${forgePublicUrl}${lnk.url}` : lnk.url;
             return (
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.css b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 987f14ae..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-/* Anchors <Dropdown> under the "⋯" trigger — same positioning
-   contract as StatusChips.css's `.status-chip-anchor`, kept as its own
-   rule here rather than reused across components (see this file's
-   sibling .tsx comment) so OverflowMenu doesn't depend on StatusChips'
-   incidental CSS. */
-.header-overflow-anchor {
-  position: relative;
-  display: inline-block;
-}
-/* @hive/shared's Dropdown.css anchors left-edge-to-left-edge, correct
-   for a picker with room to its right (StatusChips' model/effort). The
-   overflow trigger is the header's right-most element instead, so a
-   left anchor pushes the menu off-screen — flip to right-edge-to-
-   right-edge here, scoped to this one consumer rather than changing
-   the shared default (which is still correct for every other caller). */
-.header-overflow-anchor .ui-dropdown {
-  left: auto;
-  right: 0;
-}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index d698cb53..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/OverflowMenu.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-// <OverflowMenu> — the header's `⋯` trigger. Deliberately trimmed vs.
-// app.js's `populateOverflowMenu`: that one held dashboard-link/rebuild/
-// new-session/logout/model-picker/effort-picker all in one flat list —
-// the design guide's own named anti-example for a junk drawer. The
-// model/effort pickers already moved to StatusChips' own Badge+Dropdown
-// controls (this rewrite's first commit); new-session/logout now live
-// as TermInput slash commands (typed, not menu-clicked, and already
-// have their own two-step confirm). What's left here — rebuild + a
-// dashboard back-link — are genuinely menu-shaped (rare, not tied to
-// any other visible control), so they're still a `⋯` menu, just a much
-// shorter one.
-//
-// Reuses `@hive/shared`'s `Badge`+`Dropdown` — same anchored-popover
-// pair StatusChips' model/effort pickers use, not a bespoke popover.
-// Rebuild's confirm is the same "select once to arm, select again to
-// fire" pattern as TermInput's `/new-session`/`/logout` — adapted here
-// to a menu click instead of a typed repeat, but the same "requires
-// deliberate repetition, not a modal" idea.
-import { useState } from 'preact/hooks';
-import { Badge } from '@hive/shared/badge.js';
-import { Dropdown, type DropdownOption } from '@hive/shared/dropdown.js';
-import { submitRebuild } from '../lib/rebuildAction.js';
-import './OverflowMenu.css';
-
-export interface OverflowMenuProps {
-  label: string;
-  dashboardBase: string;
-}
-
-export function OverflowMenu({ label, dashboardBase }: OverflowMenuProps) {
-  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
-  const [armed, setArmed] = useState(false);
-
-  function close() {
-    setOpen(false);
-    setArmed(false);
-  }
-
-  const options: DropdownOption[] = [
-    { value: 'dashboard', label: '↑ dashboard' },
-    { value: 'rebuild', label: armed ? '↻ rebuild — click again to confirm' : '↻ rebuild container' },
-  ];
-
-  function onSelect(value: string) {
-    if (value === 'dashboard') {
-      window.open(`${dashboardBase}dashboard.html`, '_blank', 'noopener');
-      close();
-      return;
-    }
-    if (value === 'rebuild') {
-      if (armed) {
-        submitRebuild(dashboardBase, label);
-        close();
-      } else {
-        setArmed(true);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  return (
-    <div class="header-overflow-anchor">
-      <Badge value="⋯" title="more actions" onClick={() => setOpen((o) => !o)} expanded={open} />
-      <Dropdown open={open} options={options} label="more actions" onSelect={onSelect} onClose={close} />
-    </div>
-  );
-}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/index.html b/frontend/packages/agent/src/index.html
index de4f617a..ac4abb3d 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/index.html
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/index.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="static/theme.css">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="static/agent.css">
   <!-- main.css (bundled component CSS: Badge/Dropdown/LoginFlow/MetaNav/
-       StatusChips/OverflowMenu/SidePanel/...) MUST load after agent.css —
+       StatusChips/SidePanel/...) MUST load after agent.css —
        `.login-card`/`.meta-nav-popover`/etc. share class-selector
        specificity with agent.css's legacy rules, so load order is what
        decides which one wins the cascade (see LoginFlow.css/MetaNav.css
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/lib/rebuildAction.ts b/frontend/packages/agent/src/lib/rebuildAction.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 448dea06..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/lib/rebuildAction.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// Rebuild POST to the *dashboard's* origin — same cross-origin-needs-a-
-// real-form-submit reasoning as pauseAction.ts's `submitPauseResume`
-// (hive-c0re's `/api/rebuild/{name}` returns a plain 200, no CORS
-// header, so a cross-origin `fetch` can't read the result).
-export function submitRebuild(dashboardBase: string, label: string): void {
-  const form = document.createElement('form');
-  form.method = 'POST';
-  form.action = `${dashboardBase}api/rebuild/${label}`;
-  document.body.appendChild(form);
-  form.submit();
-}