From c18c79fbcc0ed2c30991ed4797bd1a85a730ba74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iris <iris@hyperhive.local>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:16:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] agent links: use matching emoji for every built-in icon
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mara, #3762: stats already used a real emoji, the rest used plain
unicode arrow/hexagon glyphs — mixed style, and some of those glyphs
don't even render reliably (hexagon showed as a plain circle in one
repro). Picked a small matching set: compass/bar-chart/desktop/
hammer/gear. Operator-declared dashboardLinks extras keep their own
emoji unchanged.
---
 frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx |  6 +++---
 hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs                     | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
index 743148ca..83338275 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 // 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) — plus
-// a `↑ dashboard` back-link, formerly the overflow menu's job (mara:
+// 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
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ 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}dashboard.html`. */
   dashboardBase: string;
 }
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export function MetaNav({ links, forgePublicUrl, dashboardBase }: MetaNavProps)
             role="menuitem"
             onClick={() => setOpen(false)}
           >
-            ↑ dashboard
+            🧭 dashboard
           </a>
           {visible.map((lnk) => {
             const href = lnk.kind === 'forge' ? `${forgePublicUrl}${lnk.url}` : lnk.url;
diff --git a/hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs b/hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs
index 73736aa0..b621c2fa 100644
--- a/hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs
+++ b/hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs
@@ -305,6 +305,12 @@ fn read_own_status() -> (Option<String>, Option<i64>) {
 /// operator's browser host. See
 /// [`docs/web-ui/dashboard.md::Container row`](../../../docs/web-ui/dashboard.md) for
 /// the resolver + how `deployed:<sha>` ships alongside.
+///
+/// Icons are real emoji, not unicode arrow/geometric glyphs — mara:
+/// operator-declared `dashboardLinks` extras are already free-choice
+/// emoji, so the built-ins should read as the same family rather than
+/// mixing in plain text glyphs (which also don't reliably render as a
+/// hexagon/arrow across fonts to begin with).
 fn agent_links(label: &str, gui_enabled: bool) -> Vec<AgentLink> {
     let mut links = Vec::new();
 
@@ -318,7 +324,7 @@ fn agent_links(label: &str, gui_enabled: bool) -> Vec<AgentLink> {
     if gui_enabled {
         links.push(AgentLink {
             url: "screen.html".to_owned(),
-            icon: "🖥".to_owned(),
+            icon: "🖥️".to_owned(),
             label: "screen".to_owned(),
             kind: AgentLinkKind::Container,
         });
@@ -327,13 +333,13 @@ fn agent_links(label: &str, gui_enabled: bool) -> Vec<AgentLink> {
     if crate::paths::state_dir().join("forge-token").is_file() {
         links.push(AgentLink {
             url: format!("/{label}"),
-            icon: "⬡".to_owned(),
+            icon: "🔨".to_owned(),
             label: "forge".to_owned(),
             kind: AgentLinkKind::Forge,
         });
         links.push(AgentLink {
             url: format!("/agent-configs/{label}"),
-            icon: "↳".to_owned(),
+            icon: "⚙️".to_owned(),
             label: "config".to_owned(),
             kind: AgentLinkKind::Forge,
         });