diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
index 350876ed..d46129dd 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
@@ -318,11 +318,13 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
       header: "hive",
       render: (a) => a.hive ?? "—",
       sortBy: (a) => a.hive ?? "",
-      // "—" (not "") so the missing-hive option in the filter dropdown
-      // reads the same as the cell itself, rather than showing a blank
-      // choice.
-      filterValue: (a) => a.hive ?? "—",
-      filterMode: "select",
+      // "—" (not "") so the missing-hive option in the filter list reads
+      // the same as the cell itself, rather than showing a blank choice.
+      // Multiselect, not single-value `"select"` — an operator narrowing
+      // to a handful of hives at once shouldn't need to filter one at a
+      // time.
+      filterValues: (a) => [a.hive ?? "—"],
+      filterMode: "multiselect",
     },
     {
       key: "status",
@@ -333,8 +335,9 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
       // label and blew the row out (mara: "looks messy"). That string
       // now lives in its own "message" column below.
       sortBy: (a) => FRESHNESS[a.freshness].label,
-      filterValue: (a) => FRESHNESS[a.freshness].label,
-      filterMode: "select",
+      // Multiselect, same reasoning as the hive column above.
+      filterValues: (a) => [FRESHNESS[a.freshness].label],
+      filterMode: "multiselect",
       render: (a) => {
         const { tone, label } = FRESHNESS[a.freshness];
         return (
@@ -379,8 +382,9 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
       // real per-badge logic lives there, this column just wires its
       // callbacks to the page's own state/handlers.
       sortBy: (a) => a.wanted ?? "",
-      filterValue: (a) => a.wanted ?? "no declaration",
-      filterMode: "select",
+      // Multiselect, same reasoning as the hive column above.
+      filterValues: (a) => [a.wanted ?? "no declaration"],
+      filterMode: "multiselect",
       render: (a) => {
         const err = actionErrors.get(a.name);
         return (
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/HivesPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/HivesPage.tsx
index 4d0deda4..518aa0af 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/HivesPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/HivesPage.tsx
@@ -91,8 +91,11 @@ const COLUMNS: TableColumn<HiveStatus>[] = [
       );
     },
     sortBy: (h) => FRESHNESS[h.freshness].label,
-    filterValue: (h) => FRESHNESS[h.freshness].label,
-    filterMode: "select",
+    // Multiselect (not the single-value `"select"` mode) so the operator
+    // can filter for e.g. "stale or offline" in one pass rather than one
+    // freshness state at a time.
+    filterValues: (h) => [FRESHNESS[h.freshness].label],
+    filterMode: "multiselect",
   },
 ];
 
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/IssueReportPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/IssueReportPage.tsx
index 1c95de8d..95f84da9 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/IssueReportPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/IssueReportPage.tsx
@@ -312,14 +312,12 @@ export function IssueReportPage() {
       ),
       ariaSort: ariaSortFor("assignees"),
       render: (r) => (r.assignees.length ? r.assignees.join(", ") : "—"),
-      // Text, not `"select"` — a row can carry more than one assignee,
-      // and `Table`'s select mode matches one whole string per row
-      // exactly, so a real per-assignee dropdown would need `Table`
-      // itself to grow multi-value filtering. Substring search over
-      // the joined string still finds "iris" inside "damocles, iris"
-      // correctly, which covers the actual gap (no way to filter by
-      // assignee at all today).
-      filterValue: (r) => r.assignees.join(", "),
+      // Multiselect, same machinery the "labels" column above already
+      // uses — `r.assignees` is already the per-row array this mode
+      // wants, so there's no reason to fall back to a joined-string
+      // substring search here.
+      filterValues: (r) => r.assignees,
+      filterMode: "multiselect",
     },
     {
       key: "blocked",
@@ -337,11 +335,11 @@ export function IssueReportPage() {
         r.blocked ? <Badge tone="warning" value="blocked" /> : "—",
       // A distinct gap from the existing "hide blocked" toggle above:
       // that one only *hides* blocked issues, there was no way to see
-      // *only* the blocked ones. Synthesized two-value string (not the
-      // raw boolean) — `Table`'s select mode needs a string to match,
-      // same as `AgentsPage`'s `wanted ?? "no declaration"` pattern.
-      filterValue: (r) => (r.blocked ? "blocked" : "not blocked"),
-      filterMode: "select",
+      // *only* the blocked ones. Synthesized two-value set (not the raw
+      // boolean) — multiselect, same as every other enum-shaped column,
+      // rather than the single-value `"select"` mode.
+      filterValues: (r) => [r.blocked ? "blocked" : "not blocked"],
+      filterMode: "multiselect",
     },
     {
       key: "depended_on_by_count",