diff --git a/docs/coordinator.md b/docs/coordinator.md
index 1ac89697..acd1f84b 100644
--- a/docs/coordinator.md
+++ b/docs/coordinator.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The **DAG** is the unit of dedup / cancel / approval-resolution and the
 dashboard group; the **node** is the unit of scheduling / execution /
 build-log / step label. Deps are intra-DAG edges only (`AfterOk` by default:
 the dep must succeed, a failed/cancelled dep cancels the dependent —
-cancel-downstream). Cross-DAG ordering comes from the per-agent lease + dedup,
+cancel-downstream). Cross-DAG ordering comes from the per-agent lease,
 never from edges between DAGs. Submit-time validation (petgraph `toposort`)
 rejects cyclic specs outright, fixing the old queue's "circular dep silently
 deadlocks" caveat.
@@ -139,11 +139,13 @@ resources are free. Resources:
 
 1. **Build slots** — `services.hyperhive.c0re.buildSlots` permits (default 1),
    held by nix-heavy nodes for the node's duration.
-2. **Per-agent lifecycle lease** — DAG-scoped: acquired at the DAG's first
-   container-affecting node (`StopForUpdate`, `Swap`, `Signal`, `Drain`,
-   `Reconcile`, `WriteDropin`, `Create`, `ApprovalDeploy`), held until the DAG
-   is terminal, so two lifecycle DAGs for one agent never interleave their
-   container ops. **Lease-exempt**: `Prebuild`, `MetaLock`, `WritePermFile` —
+2. **Per-agent lifecycle lease** — keyed on the **node's** agent (agent is
+   per-node; a DAG can span agents) and globally exclusive per agent across
+   all DAGs: acquired at a container-affecting node (`StopForUpdate`, `Swap`,
+   `Signal`, `Drain`, `Reconcile`, `WriteDropin`, `Create`, `ApprovalDeploy`),
+   held by the owning DAG until it's terminal, so two DAGs never interleave
+   container ops on the same agent. A DAG touching several agents holds one
+   lease per agent. **Lease-exempt**: `Prebuild`, `MetaLock`, `WritePermFile` —
    they touch the store / meta, not the running container, which is exactly
    why a stop can land while another DAG's prebuild is still building.
 
@@ -156,14 +158,11 @@ The queue is in-memory only and lost on hive-c0re restart — deliberate:
 desired state is re-derived at boot from the DB + rev markers (see _Boot
 reconcile_), so there is no durable-recovery machinery to go wrong.
 
-### Dedup, cancel, history
+### Cancel, history
 
-Dedup at **DAG granularity**: a repeat submit against a DAG whose roll-up is
-still `Queued` with the same `(template, agent, parent_id, approval_id)` —
-plus `inputs` for meta-updates and the perm-type discriminant for perm
-changes — returns the existing id and appends an "also requested by …" line.
-`parent_id` in the key keeps a cascade child from collapsing into a
-standalone or sweep rebuild. Running/terminal DAGs never dedup.
+Submit-time dedup was removed with the agent-per-node move (a multi-agent DAG
+has no single agent to key a dedup on), so every submit enqueues a fresh DAG;
+whether any dedup needs reintroducing is tracked as a follow-up.
 
 Cancel only applies to still-fully-queued DAGs (an in-flight nix build isn't
 interruptible); `cancel_children` cancels a parent's still-queued child DAGs.
@@ -186,12 +185,14 @@ of dangling it).
 ### Wire shape
 
 `RebuildQueueChanged { seq, queue: [DagView…] }` (event name kept). Each
-`DagView` carries the old entry-level fields (`id`, `kind` = template string,
-roll-up `state`, `agent`, `source`, `parent_id`, `reason`, timestamps,
-`inputs`, `approval_id`) plus `nodes: [NodeView…]` — per-node `kind`, `deps`,
-`state`, `step`, `build_log_id`, timestamps, `error`. Step labels and build
-logs are **per-node**; the dashboard renders the node chain on each queue
-card and keys the live-log panel off the running node.
+`DagView` carries the entry-level fields (`id`, `kind` = template string,
+roll-up `state`, `source`, `parent_id`, `reason`, timestamps, `inputs`,
+`approval_id`) plus `nodes: [NodeView…]` — per-node `agent`, `kind`, `deps`,
+`state`, `step`, `build_log_id`, timestamps, `error`. There is **no
+DAG-level `agent`** (agent is per-node, so a DAG can span agents); consumers
+derive a DAG's agent(s) from its nodes. Step labels and build logs are
+**per-node**; the dashboard renders the node chain on each queue card and
+keys the live-log panel off the running node.
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
index e56d5060..ac01cca2 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/builds.js
@@ -165,11 +165,22 @@ function firstFailedNode(entry) {
   return (entry.nodes || []).find((n) => n.state === 'failed') || null;
 }
 
+// Distinct agents across a DAG's nodes, comma-joined for display. Agent is
+// per-node now (a DAG can span agents, e.g. a hive-wide restart), so there's
+// no DAG-level `agent` field — derive it from the nodes.
+function entryAgents(entry) {
+  const seen = [];
+  for (const n of entry.nodes || []) {
+    if (n.agent && !seen.includes(n.agent)) seen.push(n.agent);
+  }
+  return seen.join(',');
+}
+
 function rebuildQueueEntryFingerprint(entry, isChild) {
   return JSON.stringify({
     state: entry.state,
     kind: entry.kind,
-    agent: entry.agent,
+    agent: entryAgents(entry),
     source: entry.source,
     started_at: entry.started_at,
     enqueued_at: entry.enqueued_at,
@@ -265,7 +276,7 @@ function renderQueueEntry(entry, _byId, isChild) {
     el('span', { class: 'rqe-kind', title: entry.kind },
       (QUEUE_KIND_GLYPH[entry.kind] || '?') + ' ' + entry.kind),
     ' ',
-    el('code', { class: 'rqe-agent' }, entry.agent),
+    el('code', { class: 'rqe-agent' }, entryAgents(entry)),
   );
   li.append(' ', el('span', { class: 'rqe-source rqe-source-' + entry.source }, entry.source));
   if (entry.state === 'queued') {
@@ -331,14 +342,14 @@ function renderQueueEntry(entry, _byId, isChild) {
       class: 'inline rqe-cancel',
       'data-async': '',
       'data-confirm':
-        `cancel ${entry.kind} for \`${entry.agent}\` (queue id ${entry.id})? ` +
+        `cancel ${entry.kind} for \`${entryAgents(entry)}\` (queue id ${entry.id})? ` +
         `the row drops from the queue and never runs. running / done / failed entries can't be cancelled this way.`,
     });
     cancelForm.append(el('button', {
       type: 'submit',
       class: 'rqe-cancel-btn',
       title: 'cancel this queued ' + entry.kind,
-      'aria-label': 'cancel queued ' + entry.kind + ' for ' + entry.agent,
+      'aria-label': 'cancel queued ' + entry.kind + ' for ' + entryAgents(entry),
     }, '✗'));
     li.append(cancelForm);
   }
@@ -414,7 +425,7 @@ function renderRebuildLiveLog(queue) {
   const header = el('div', { class: 'rebuild-live-log-header' },
     toggle, ' ',
     el('span', { class: 'rebuild-live-log-title' }, 'live build log — '),
-    el('code', { class: 'rqe-agent' }, running.agent),
+    el('code', { class: 'rqe-agent' }, entryAgents(running)),
     ' ', el('span', { class: 'rqe-kind' },
       (running.kind || 'rebuild') + ' · ' + (NODE_KIND_LABEL[liveNode.kind] || liveNode.kind)),
     ' ', badge, ' ',
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/bin/hivectl/dag_progress.rs b/hive-c0re/src/bin/hivectl/dag_progress.rs
index a50b7007..0875b814 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/bin/hivectl/dag_progress.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/bin/hivectl/dag_progress.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ async fn wait_for_dags_plain(socket: &Path, ids: Vec<u64>) -> Result<()> {
                 // sees whether the agent came back.
                 if d.nodes.iter().all(|n| n.state.is_terminal()) {
                     if d.state == hive_sh4re::jobs::State::Failed {
-                        failed.push(format!("{} {}", d.kind.as_str(), d.agent));
+                        failed.push(format!("{} {}", d.kind.as_str(), dag_agents(d)));
                     }
                 } else {
                     all_terminal = false;
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ async fn wait_for_dags_animated(socket: &Path, ids: Vec<u64>) -> Result<()> {
                     "{} {} {} · {}",
                     state_glyph(d.state),
                     d.kind.as_str(),
-                    d.agent,
+                    dag_agents(d),
                     fmt_dur(dag_elapsed(d, now)),
                 ));
                 for n in &d.nodes {
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ async fn wait_for_dags_animated(socket: &Path, ids: Vec<u64>) -> Result<()> {
                 }
                 if d.nodes.iter().all(|n| n.state.is_terminal()) {
                     if d.state == hive_sh4re::jobs::State::Failed {
-                        failed.push(format!("{} {}", d.kind.as_str(), d.agent));
+                        failed.push(format!("{} {}", d.kind.as_str(), dag_agents(d)));
                     }
                 } else {
                     all_terminal = false;
@@ -204,6 +204,19 @@ fn finish_wait(mut failed: Vec<String>) -> Result<()> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Distinct agents across a DAG's nodes, comma-joined for display — the
+/// per-node replacement for the old DAG-level `agent` field. Single-agent
+/// DAGs render one name; a hive-wide DAG lists each.
+fn dag_agents(d: &hive_sh4re::jobs::DagView) -> String {
+    let mut seen: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
+    for n in &d.nodes {
+        if !seen.contains(&n.agent.as_str()) {
+            seen.push(&n.agent);
+        }
+    }
+    seen.join(",")
+}
+
 /// Current unix time in seconds (0 on the impossible pre-epoch error).
 fn now_unix() -> i64 {
     std::time::SystemTime::now()
@@ -290,7 +303,7 @@ fn render_dag_line(d: &hive_sh4re::jobs::DagView) -> String {
         "{} {} {:<12}",
         state_glyph(d.state),
         d.kind.as_str(),
-        d.agent
+        dag_agents(d)
     );
     for (i, n) in d.nodes.iter().enumerate() {
         let sep = if i == 0 { "  " } else { " → " };
@@ -314,9 +327,10 @@ mod tests {
 
     use super::render_dag_line;
 
-    fn node(id: u32, kind: &str, state: State, step: Option<&str>) -> NodeView {
+    fn node(id: u32, agent: &str, kind: &str, state: State, step: Option<&str>) -> NodeView {
         NodeView {
             id,
+            agent: agent.to_owned(),
             kind: kind.to_owned(),
             deps: if id == 0 { vec![] } else { vec![id - 1] },
             state,
@@ -332,7 +346,6 @@ mod tests {
     fn render_dag_line_shows_chain_and_running_step() {
         let dag = DagView {
             id: 7,
-            agent: "alice".to_owned(),
             kind: Template::Rebuild,
             state: State::Running,
             source: Source::Manual,
@@ -345,10 +358,16 @@ mod tests {
             approval_id: None,
             perm_payload: None,
             nodes: vec![
-                node(0, "prebuild", State::Done, None),
-                node(1, "stop_for_update", State::Done, None),
-                node(2, "swap", State::Running, Some("nixos-container update")),
-                node(3, "reconcile", State::Queued, None),
+                node(0, "alice", "prebuild", State::Done, None),
+                node(1, "alice", "stop_for_update", State::Done, None),
+                node(
+                    2,
+                    "alice",
+                    "swap",
+                    State::Running,
+                    Some("nixos-container update"),
+                ),
+                node(3, "alice", "reconcile", State::Queued, None),
             ],
         };
         let line = render_dag_line(&dag);
@@ -363,11 +382,10 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn render_dag_line_surfaces_first_node_error() {
-        let mut failed = node(0, "prebuild", State::Failed, None);
+        let mut failed = node(0, "bob", "prebuild", State::Failed, None);
         failed.error = Some("nix build exploded".to_owned());
         let dag = DagView {
             id: 8,
-            agent: "bob".to_owned(),
             kind: Template::Rebuild,
             state: State::Failed,
             source: Source::Manual,