diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
index 14010a1a..6da04c0a 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@
 // itself (`CreateAgentForm`) mounts inside a `Dialog` here rather than
 // its own route.
 //
-// The "wanted" column is the start/stop control — see its own `render`
-// and `toggleWanted` below for how.
+// The "wanted" column is the start/stop control (`toggleWanted`) plus a
+// separate destroy control (`destroyAgent`) — both confirm via the
+// shared `ui/confirm-dialog`.
 import { useState } from "preact/hooks";
 import { ApiErrorPanel } from "@hive/shared/api-error-panel.js";
 import { readApiError, type ProblemDetails } from "@hive/shared/api-error.js";
 import { Badge, type BadgeTone } from "@hive/shared/badge.js";
 import { Button } from "../ui/button/Button.js";
+import { ConfirmDialog } from "../ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.js";
 import { Dialog } from "../ui/dialog/Dialog.js";
 import { Panel } from "../ui/panel/Panel.js";
 import { RelativeTime } from "../ui/relative-time/RelativeTime.js";
@@ -56,8 +58,9 @@ interface AgentStatusSnapshot {
   running: boolean;
 }
 
-// `"up"` / `"offline"`, wire-spelled by `swarm_queue_client::wanted::AgentState::as_str`
-// — kept as a bare `string | null` rather than a union, same reason
+// `"up"` / `"offline"` / `"destroyed"`, wire-spelled by
+// `swarm_queue_client::wanted::AgentState::as_str` — kept as a bare
+// `string | null` rather than a union, same reason
 // `config_pr`'s shape isn't re-derived here: this page renders whatever
 // the wire sends, it doesn't validate the enum client-side.
 type Wanted = string | null;
@@ -114,6 +117,15 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
   const [actionErrors, setActionErrors] = useState<
     ReadonlyMap<string, ProblemDetails>
   >(new Map());
+  // The row pending destroy confirmation, `null` when the dialog is
+  // closed — not a boolean, so the dialog can name the agent without a
+  // second piece of state to keep in sync with it. `stopTarget` mirrors
+  // it for the "declare offline" direction of the same toggle — two
+  // separate pieces of state (not one "pending confirm" union) since
+  // both `ConfirmDialog`s can't be open at once anyway and keeping them
+  // apart means each one's JSX below reads standalone.
+  const [destroyTarget, setDestroyTarget] = useState<AgentRow | null>(null);
+  const [stopTarget, setStopTarget] = useState<AgentRow | null>(null);
 
   async function refresh() {
     const res = await fetch("/api/agents/status");
@@ -132,30 +144,13 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
     refresh().catch((e: unknown) => setError({ detail: String(e) }));
   });
 
-  // Declares the opposite of `row`'s current state. A row with no
-  // declaration yet (`wanted === null`) has nothing to flip, so the
-  // target is read off the agent's own last-reported `running` instead
-  // — the button's first click always means "make the declaration match
-  // reality, then flip it", which is the only reading that makes sense
-  // without a declaration to toggle.
-  async function toggleWanted(row: AgentRow) {
+  // Shared by `confirmStop` and `destroyAgent` — both are "PUT a new
+  // `wanted` declaration, track per-agent pending/error state, patch the
+  // response back into `rows`" with nothing else distinguishing them.
+  // Which `ConfirmDialog` fires it and the target state stay in each
+  // caller, since those are the parts that actually differ.
+  async function declareState(row: AgentRow, target: string) {
     if (!row.hive) return;
-    const impliedCurrent =
-      row.wanted ?? (row.snapshot?.running ? "up" : "offline");
-    const target = impliedCurrent === "up" ? "offline" : "up";
-    if (
-      target === "offline" &&
-      // Native confirm, not a `Dialog` — no confirm-dialog component
-      // exists in swarm-ui yet, and stop is the one disruptive direction
-      // here (start isn't gated). A swarm-level agent destroy, unlike
-      // this reversible declare, is the irreversible case that will
-      // justify a real one.
-      !window.confirm(
-        `Declare ${row.name} offline? The hive brings its container down on its next reconcile sweep.`,
-      )
-    ) {
-      return;
-    }
     setPendingAgents((prev) => new Set(prev).add(row.name));
     setActionErrors((prev) => {
       const next = new Map(prev);
@@ -206,6 +201,48 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
     }
   }
 
+  // Declares the opposite of `row`'s current state. A row with no
+  // declaration yet (`wanted === null`) has nothing to flip, so the
+  // target is read off the agent's own last-reported `running` instead
+  // — the button's first click always means "make the declaration match
+  // reality, then flip it", which is the only reading that makes sense
+  // without a declaration to toggle. The "up" direction needs no
+  // confirmation and declares straight away; "offline" opens the
+  // `stopTarget` `ConfirmDialog` instead of declaring directly — see
+  // `confirmStop`.
+  async function toggleWanted(row: AgentRow) {
+    if (!row.hive) return;
+    const impliedCurrent =
+      row.wanted ?? (row.snapshot?.running ? "up" : "offline");
+    const target = impliedCurrent === "up" ? "offline" : "up";
+    if (target === "offline") {
+      setStopTarget(row);
+      return;
+    }
+    await declareState(row, target);
+  }
+
+  // Fires from the `stopTarget` confirm `Dialog`. Used to be a native
+  // `window.confirm` (stop is reversible, a later start un-does it, so a
+  // lighter-weight prompt than destroy's felt proportionate) — mara,
+  // reviewing the destroy confirm: use the shared component everywhere
+  // we already confirm before acting, not just for destroy. Once
+  // `ConfirmDialog` existed as a one-line-per-caller component, the
+  // "native is lighter" argument no longer bought consistency anything.
+  async function confirmStop(row: AgentRow) {
+    setStopTarget(null);
+    await declareState(row, "offline");
+  }
+
+  // Fires from the `destroyTarget` confirm `Dialog`, never directly off
+  // a row click — see `destroyTarget`/the "destroy" badge in the
+  // `wanted` column. Unlike `toggleWanted`, there's no "current state"
+  // to read: destroy is a one-way declaration, not a flip.
+  async function destroyAgent(row: AgentRow) {
+    setDestroyTarget(null);
+    await declareState(row, "destroyed");
+  }
+
   const columns: TableColumn<AgentRow>[] = [
     {
       key: "name",
@@ -275,7 +312,11 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
       // badge toggles it — `Badge`'s own "chip plus, optionally, the
       // control" shape (see its header comment, which names pause/resume
       // as the exact motivating case), not a separate status chip next
-      // to a separate button.
+      // to a separate button. Destroy is a second, `quiet`-variant badge
+      // next to it rather than a third toggle state: folding it into the
+      // same click target would make one wrong click irreversible, and
+      // `wanted === "destroyed"` already reads fine as this badge's own
+      // display value without a dedicated affordance to view it.
       sortBy: (a) => a.wanted ?? "",
       filterValue: (a) => a.wanted ?? "no declaration",
       render: (a) => {
@@ -285,19 +326,42 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
         const actionLabel = impliedCurrent === "up" ? "stop" : "start";
         const tone: BadgeTone = a.wanted === "up" ? "positive" : "neutral";
         const err = actionErrors.get(a.name);
+        // Already destroyed, or nothing to destroy against — same guard
+        // shape as the wanted toggle's own `!a.hive` check.
+        const destroyable = a.hive && a.wanted !== "destroyed";
+        const destroyed = a.wanted === "destroyed";
         return (
           <>
             <Badge
               tone={tone}
               value={pending ? "…" : (a.wanted ?? "no declaration")}
-              onClick={a.hive ? () => void toggleWanted(a) : undefined}
-              disabled={pending || !a.hive}
+              // `destroyed` blocks the click too, not just the label —
+              // argus caught this in review: without it, a click here
+              // still computed `target = "up"` and PUT a live
+              // declaration on a destroyed row, contradicting the
+              // destroy confirm's own "not reversible from here" copy.
+              onClick={
+                a.hive && !destroyed ? () => void toggleWanted(a) : undefined
+              }
+              disabled={pending || !a.hive || destroyed}
               title={
-                a.hive
-                  ? `click to ${actionLabel} ${a.name}`
-                  : "no hive on record for this agent — nothing to declare against"
+                destroyed
+                  ? `${a.name} is destroyed — redeploy via "+ agent" to bring it back`
+                  : a.hive
+                    ? `click to ${actionLabel} ${a.name}`
+                    : "no hive on record for this agent — nothing to declare against"
               }
             />
+            {destroyable ? (
+              <Badge
+                variant="quiet"
+                tone="negative"
+                value="destroy"
+                onClick={() => setDestroyTarget(a)}
+                disabled={pending}
+                title={`destroy ${a.name} — tears the container down, irreversible`}
+              />
+            ) : null}
             {err ? (
               <Badge
                 tone="negative"
@@ -373,6 +437,37 @@ export function AgentsPage() {
       >
         <CreateAgentForm />
       </Dialog>
+      <ConfirmDialog
+        open={stopTarget !== null}
+        label="stop agent"
+        onCancel={() => setStopTarget(null)}
+        onConfirm={() => stopTarget && void confirmStop(stopTarget)}
+        confirmLabel="stop"
+      >
+        {stopTarget ? (
+          <p>
+            Declare <strong>{stopTarget.name}</strong> offline? The hive brings
+            its container down on its next reconcile sweep.
+          </p>
+        ) : null}
+      </ConfirmDialog>
+      <ConfirmDialog
+        open={destroyTarget !== null}
+        label="destroy agent"
+        onCancel={() => setDestroyTarget(null)}
+        onConfirm={() => destroyTarget && void destroyAgent(destroyTarget)}
+        confirmLabel="destroy"
+      >
+        {destroyTarget ? (
+          <p>
+            Destroy <strong>{destroyTarget.name}</strong>? The hive tears its
+            container down on its next reconcile sweep. This is not reversible
+            from here — bringing it back means redeploying via "+ agent", which
+            reuses the agent's existing identity, config repo, and forge
+            collaborator access rather than starting over.
+          </p>
+        ) : null}
+      </ConfirmDialog>
     </Panel>
   );
 }
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.css b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bec51820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.css
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* <ConfirmDialog> — body + button-row layout only; `Dialog.css` owns the
+   surrounding modal chrome, `Button.css` owns the buttons themselves. */
+.confirm-dialog {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 1em;
+  max-width: 28em;
+}
+.confirm-dialog-actions {
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: flex-end;
+  gap: 0.75em;
+}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b73badf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/confirm-dialog/ConfirmDialog.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// <ConfirmDialog> — a `Dialog` pre-wired for the "message + cancel/confirm
+// button row" shape every confirm-before-acting flow needs. Extracted out
+// of AgentsPage's destroy confirmation on mara's review question ("why the
+// extra styling? shouldnt there be a component that does this already?")
+// — there wasn't one yet, so that page had grown its own
+// `.agents-destroy-confirm`/`-actions` layout CSS for what turns out to be
+// a generic shape. `Dialog` itself stays opinion-free about content (see
+// its own file-top comment); this is the one layer up that isn't, so a
+// future confirm flow gets the button row for free instead of another
+// page-scoped CSS file.
+//
+// The message itself stays caller-owned via `children` — only the dialog
+// wiring, spacing, and button row are shared.
+import type { ComponentChildren } from "preact";
+import { Button } from "../button/Button.js";
+import { Dialog } from "../dialog/Dialog.js";
+import "./ConfirmDialog.css";
+
+export function ConfirmDialog({
+  open,
+  label,
+  onCancel,
+  onConfirm,
+  confirmLabel = "confirm",
+  cancelLabel = "cancel",
+  confirmDisabled = false,
+  children,
+}: {
+  open: boolean;
+  label: string;
+  onCancel: () => void;
+  onConfirm: () => void;
+  confirmLabel?: string;
+  cancelLabel?: string;
+  confirmDisabled?: boolean;
+  children: ComponentChildren;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <Dialog open={open} onClose={onCancel} label={label}>
+      <div class="confirm-dialog">
+        <div class="confirm-dialog-body">{children}</div>
+        <div class="confirm-dialog-actions">
+          <Button onClick={onCancel}>{cancelLabel}</Button>
+          <Button
+            variant="primary"
+            onClick={onConfirm}
+            disabled={confirmDisabled}
+          >
+            {confirmLabel}
+          </Button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </Dialog>
+  );
+}