diff --git a/nix/host-modules/default.nix b/nix/host-modules/default.nix
index 56f21137..cbfd7028 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/default.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     ./swarm-ca.nix
     ./swarm-controller.nix
     ./swarm-snapshot-store.nix
+    ./swarm-ui.nix
     ./swarm-wireguard.nix
     ./swarm.nix
     ./swarm-peers-removed.nix
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-ui.nix b/nix/host-modules/swarm-ui.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b1da263d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-ui.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# The swarm-level web UI: a static bundle served by the gateway's nginx,
+# behind authelia. Distinct from the per-hive dashboard (hive-c0re's, on
+# the hive domain) — this one answers for the swarm apex and is the
+# operator's view across hives.
+#
+# Options only. The vhost itself is declared in hive-gateway/vhosts.nix
+# alongside forge/matrix/authelia: a service module says *how* it is
+# reached, the gateway says *whether this host serves it*.
+{
+  lib,
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}:
+let
+  cfg = config.services.hyperhive.swarm.ui;
+  swarmCfg = config.services.hyperhive.swarm;
+  hiveDomain = config.services.hyperhive.domain;
+in
+{
+  options.services.hyperhive.swarm.ui = {
+    enable = lib.mkOption {
+      type = lib.types.bool;
+      default = swarmCfg.controller.enable;
+      defaultText = lib.literalExpression "services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.enable";
+      example = true;
+      description = ''
+        Serve the swarm UI from this host.
+
+        Derived from `swarm.controller.enable` rather than from
+        `enableRequiredServices`: the UI is a view onto the controller's
+        state and reaches it over that daemon's unix socket, so the host
+        that runs the controller is the host that can serve the UI. A
+        hive that merely *uses* a swarm has nothing to serve here.
+      '';
+    };
+
+    domain = lib.mkOption {
+      type = lib.types.str;
+      default = if swarmCfg.domain == null then "swarm.invalid" else swarmCfg.domain;
+      defaultText = lib.literalExpression "services.hyperhive.swarm.domain";
+      example = "swarm.example.com";
+      description = ''
+        Host name the swarm UI answers on. Defaults to the swarm apex
+        itself — the swarm's front page is the swarm's name.
+
+        An option rather than a hardcoded derivation so a hive can pin a
+        different name, the same way `swarm.forge.domain` and
+        `swarm.matrix.gatewayHost` can.
+
+        Total on a null swarm domain (`.invalid`, RFC 2606) so the
+        required-domain assertion is what fires rather than a coercion
+        error naming this option — same reasoning as
+        `hive-network.nix`'s.
+      '';
+    };
+
+    package = lib.mkOption {
+      type = lib.types.package;
+      default = pkgs.swarm-ui;
+      defaultText = lib.literalExpression "pkgs.swarm-ui";
+      description = ''
+        Static build of the swarm UI. nginx serves this store path
+        directly — there is no server-side component beyond the
+        controller's own API.
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = lib.mkIf (config.services.hyperhive.enable && cfg.enable) {
+    assertions = [
+      {
+        # The `_` default server already answers for the hive domain
+        # (dashboard, per-agent routes). A second vhost claiming the same
+        # server_name is not an error to nginx — it picks one and logs a
+        # conflict — so the failure would surface as "the dashboard is
+        # sometimes the swarm UI", which is far harder to read than an
+        # eval failure naming both options.
+        assertion = cfg.domain != hiveDomain;
+        message = ''
+          services.hyperhive.swarm.ui.domain (${cfg.domain}) must differ
+          from services.hyperhive.domain (${hiveDomain}) — the hive
+          domain is already served by the gateway's default vhost
+          (dashboard + agent routes), and two vhosts claiming one
+          server_name silently resolve to whichever nginx picks.
+
+          Set services.hyperhive.swarm.domain to a name distinct from
+          this hive's, or pin swarm.ui.domain explicitly.
+        '';
+      }
+    ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm.nix b/nix/host-modules/swarm.nix
index 4bf07940..d3502e45 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/swarm.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm.nix
@@ -39,7 +39,13 @@ let
     swarmCfg.forge.domain
     swarmCfg.matrix.gatewayHost
     swarmCfg.authelia.domain
-  ];
+  ]
+  # The swarm UI's name is a SIBLING of the other three, not a parent of
+  # them — the apex is as much a name needing a certificate as
+  # `forge.<apex>` is, and no CA in the hierarchy issues for it
+  # implicitly. Left out, its vhost falls back to the hive leaf and the
+  # swarm's front page opens with a name mismatch.
+  ++ lib.optional swarmCfg.ui.enable swarmCfg.ui.domain;
 in
 {
   options.services.hyperhive.swarm.hives = lib.mkOption {