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;

hive-agent/src/web_ui/state.rs

@@ -305,12 +305,6 @@ 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();
 
@@ -333,13 +327,13 @@ 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,
         });