diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 15d32bfc..e51d3d6e 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph
 
 **Prompt uploads** (`POST /api/sessions/:id/paste-image`; client wiring in `image-input.js` and `keyboard-accessory.js`): a pasted file is written to `<workspace>/.codeman-uploads/` and its path lands on the prompt as unsent text. The folder is IN the workspace because that is the only path identical for a local and a container agent, FLAT because `<workspace>/.codeman/` would BE the data dir when the workspace is the home directory, and self-ignoring through a `.gitignore` of `*` written ONCE with `wx` (a file already there is the user's and is never overwritten; the user's own ignore file is never touched). ⚠️ The directory names live ONLY in `paste-image-gc.ts` (`UPLOAD_DIR_NAMES`): the pre-move `.claude-images/` receives nothing but stays readable for one release, so the GC sweep and the delete cleanup (through `uploadDirs()`) and the image watcher's ignore filter (reading the names) cover BOTH; retire the legacy entry there, never by hand elsewhere. ⚠️ `uploadDirs()` is async and probes the workspace BOUNDED first (`probePathKind()`, the #516 rule: an `unknown` path is skipped, never touched; the sweep keeps the stall cap and the delete passes `pastCap`), then returns only REAL directories (lstat, so a planted symlink is never one), none that is or contains `getDataDir()` (one strictly inside it only holds uploads and is listed), and none for a remote session, since both consumers delete; the check is made at list time, and the same-user race after it is accepted. A remote (SSH) session is refused (400) before any disk touch: its `workingDir` is the remote path, so the file would land on THIS host where the agent cannot read it. → [architecture-invariants#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history](docs/architecture-invariants.md#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history)
 
-**File-path links (terminal + chat)**: a path an agent prints is clickable on BOTH surfaces and opens the file-preview overlay. ⚠️ ONE pattern (`FILE_PATH_LINK_PATTERN` / `absoluteFilePathPattern()` in constants.js) feeds the xterm link provider AND `_linkifyFilePaths()`, a fresh instance per call (`lastIndex`). The chat linkifier walks TEXT NODES with DOM APIs, never rebuilds sanitized markup as a string. ⚠️ An out-of-workspace path goes through the ATTACHMENT routes (`POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments` with `notify: false`), never by widening `file-content`/`file-raw` or `file-stream-manager`'s `tail -f` allowlist. ⚠️ `TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` IS `EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS` (never a second list), and widening READ must never widen RUN: `html`/`htm`/`svg` stay download-only, other text is inert `text/plain`+`nosniff`. Media extensions are single-sourced in `attachment-registry.ts`. ⚠️ **XLSX previews parse in the BROWSER**, never on the server: `spreadsheet-preview.js` fetches the raw route with `?preview=true` (413 above `MAX_XLSX_BROWSER_PREVIEW_BYTES`, 10 MB) and hands the bytes to `spreadsheet-preview-worker.js`, the only place the pinned `exceljs`/`fflate` vendor bundles load (never on page load). `admitXlsx()` caps the ZIP before ExcelJS runs, counting what ExcelJS will EXPAND as well as what it reads (a merge costs its area, a `<col>` past 16384 is refused, validations are never parsed via `ignoreNodes`, and defined names are never expanded: the worker stubs `_definedNames.model`). ⚠️ The INDEX a row or sheet claims is bounded too, since ExcelJS allocates and walks up to it: a `<row r>` outside 1-1048576 and an `xl/workbook.xml` `<sheet sheetId>` above `LIMITS.maxSheetId` (65535) are refused, and `sendTile` reuses the merges read at load (`mergesById`), never `sheet.model`, which rebuilds the whole sheet. ⚠️ The COLUMN index costs the same way (a row's cells live at `_cells[col - 1]`, so one `XFD` cell makes ExcelJS's `eachRow`/`eachCell`/`hasValues` visit 16,384 slots per row): `worksheetMetadata` builds each sheet's row and cell index from the keys that exist (`Object.keys` of `_rows` and `_cells`, skipping falsy and `Null`-type cells as `eachCell({ includeEmpty: false })` does), reads row heights in that pass and merges from `sheet._merges`, and `sendTile` reads cells from that index (`populatedRowsById`); never call ExcelJS's dense `eachRow`/`eachCell` there. `parseThemePalette` returns the default palette for a theme above 64 KB (64 * 1024 characters), since its patterns are quadratic on unclosed tags. ⚠️ Merges are capped per sheet (`LIMITS.maxMergesPerSheet`, 2,000) AND workbook-wide (`LIMITS.maxMerges`, 10,000), refused as `merge-limit` before ExcelJS loads, since ExcelJS's `_mergeCellsInternal` checks each merge against every earlier one on its sheet (quadratic). Every `<numFmt>` in `xl/styles.xml` is read with `readTagAttributes()` and refused (`number-format`) when its decoded `formatCode` is over 255 characters or has a `[` after its last `]`: ExcelJS's `isDateFmt` rescans to the end of the code per unclosed `[` once per numeric cell, and the code is echoed into the notice bar. ⚠️ `formatCellValue` caps every cell's display text at `LIMITS.maxCellTextChars` (1,000, ellipsis, never splitting a surrogate pair) for every value shape (rich text, hyperlink text, formula source, errors), since structured clone copies each tile cell's whole string to the page and the load timeout no longer covers tiles. `richTextPrefix` also visits at most `maxCellTextChars + 1` runs, not only keeps that much text: an empty `<r/>` adds nothing, so a shared string of a million empty runs was walked whole per cell, per tile (56 s a tile). ⚠️ Every part ExcelJS parses (all but the pure-bytes `xl/media/<name>.<ext>`) is also charged per START TAG against `LIMITS.maxElements` (2,000,000, refused as `element-limit`): ExcelJS builds an object per element in sharedStrings, styles, comments, drawings, VML and tables too, and empty stored blocks pad a deflate stream past the ratio cap, so 8.3M empty `<r/>` runs in a 375 KB file cost 570 MB of heap. ⚠️ Admission keys every entry on the name ExcelJS will SEE (`excelJsEntryName()`: JSZip's `.`/`..`/empty-segment resolution, then one leading `/` stripped), refuses two entries that land on one name, and treats anything matching ExcelJS's UNANCHORED `xl/worksheets/sheet<N>.xml` as a worksheet, so `/xl/...` or `xl/./...` cannot skip a counter, and ExcelJS parses only a STORE-only archive rebuilt from the entries admission inflated (`buildAdmittedArchive()`), never the fetched bytes; cell text goes through `textContent`, formulas are never evaluated. Bumping either package or editing the worker/core changes `SPREADSHEET_ASSET_VERSION`, which `npm run check:public-assets` pins. xls/ods stay download-only. → [architecture-invariants#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer](docs/architecture-invariants.md#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer)
+**File-path links (terminal + chat)**: a path an agent prints is clickable on BOTH surfaces and opens the file-preview overlay. ⚠️ ONE pattern (`FILE_PATH_LINK_PATTERN` / `absoluteFilePathPattern()` in constants.js) feeds the xterm link provider AND `_linkifyFilePaths()`, a fresh instance per call (`lastIndex`). The chat linkifier walks TEXT NODES with DOM APIs, never rebuilds sanitized markup as a string. ⚠️ An out-of-workspace path goes through the ATTACHMENT routes (`POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments` with `notify: false`), never by widening `file-content`/`file-raw` or `file-stream-manager`'s `tail -f` allowlist. ⚠️ `TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` IS `EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS` (never a second list), and widening READ must never widen RUN: `html`/`htm`/`svg` stay download-only, other text is inert `text/plain`+`nosniff`. ⚠️ The ONE place HTML renders is `/html-view/<cap>/...` (`html-view-routes.ts`, `html-view-capabilities.ts`): `POST /api/sessions/:id/html-view` mints a capability for the file's own directory, every response carries `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox` WITHOUT `allow-same-origin` (opaque origin even as a top-level tab, so the page can never read Codeman or drive its API), and only non-dot, asset-allowlisted files under that directory are served (GET/HEAD only; capabilities revoked with the web-tab ones on logout). That tree is served recursively, so minting is refused for a hidden directory or a broad root (`isBroadHtmlViewRoot`); the preview renders by default and the **Page** pill (or a refused mint) falls through to the source view and its Edit button. Never serve HTML same-origin anywhere else. Tests: `test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts`. Media extensions are single-sourced in `attachment-registry.ts`. ⚠️ **XLSX previews parse in the BROWSER**, never on the server: `spreadsheet-preview.js` fetches the raw route with `?preview=true` (413 above `MAX_XLSX_BROWSER_PREVIEW_BYTES`, 10 MB) and hands the bytes to `spreadsheet-preview-worker.js`, the only place the pinned `exceljs`/`fflate` vendor bundles load (never on page load). `admitXlsx()` caps the ZIP before ExcelJS runs, counting what ExcelJS will EXPAND as well as what it reads (a merge costs its area, a `<col>` past 16384 is refused, validations are never parsed via `ignoreNodes`, and defined names are never expanded: the worker stubs `_definedNames.model`). ⚠️ The INDEX a row or sheet claims is bounded too, since ExcelJS allocates and walks up to it: a `<row r>` outside 1-1048576 and an `xl/workbook.xml` `<sheet sheetId>` above `LIMITS.maxSheetId` (65535) are refused, and `sendTile` reuses the merges read at load (`mergesById`), never `sheet.model`, which rebuilds the whole sheet. ⚠️ The COLUMN index costs the same way (a row's cells live at `_cells[col - 1]`, so one `XFD` cell makes ExcelJS's `eachRow`/`eachCell`/`hasValues` visit 16,384 slots per row): `worksheetMetadata` builds each sheet's row and cell index from the keys that exist (`Object.keys` of `_rows` and `_cells`, skipping falsy and `Null`-type cells as `eachCell({ includeEmpty: false })` does), reads row heights in that pass and merges from `sheet._merges`, and `sendTile` reads cells from that index (`populatedRowsById`); never call ExcelJS's dense `eachRow`/`eachCell` there. `parseThemePalette` returns the default palette for a theme above 64 KB (64 * 1024 characters), since its patterns are quadratic on unclosed tags. ⚠️ Merges are capped per sheet (`LIMITS.maxMergesPerSheet`, 2,000) AND workbook-wide (`LIMITS.maxMerges`, 10,000), refused as `merge-limit` before ExcelJS loads, since ExcelJS's `_mergeCellsInternal` checks each merge against every earlier one on its sheet (quadratic). Every `<numFmt>` in `xl/styles.xml` is read with `readTagAttributes()` and refused (`number-format`) when its decoded `formatCode` is over 255 characters or has a `[` after its last `]`: ExcelJS's `isDateFmt` rescans to the end of the code per unclosed `[` once per numeric cell, and the code is echoed into the notice bar. ⚠️ `formatCellValue` caps every cell's display text at `LIMITS.maxCellTextChars` (1,000, ellipsis, never splitting a surrogate pair) for every value shape (rich text, hyperlink text, formula source, errors), since structured clone copies each tile cell's whole string to the page and the load timeout no longer covers tiles. `richTextPrefix` also visits at most `maxCellTextChars + 1` runs, not only keeps that much text: an empty `<r/>` adds nothing, so a shared string of a million empty runs was walked whole per cell, per tile (56 s a tile). ⚠️ Every part ExcelJS parses (all but the pure-bytes `xl/media/<name>.<ext>`) is also charged per START TAG against `LIMITS.maxElements` (2,000,000, refused as `element-limit`): ExcelJS builds an object per element in sharedStrings, styles, comments, drawings, VML and tables too, and empty stored blocks pad a deflate stream past the ratio cap, so 8.3M empty `<r/>` runs in a 375 KB file cost 570 MB of heap. ⚠️ Admission keys every entry on the name ExcelJS will SEE (`excelJsEntryName()`: JSZip's `.`/`..`/empty-segment resolution, then one leading `/` stripped), refuses two entries that land on one name, and treats anything matching ExcelJS's UNANCHORED `xl/worksheets/sheet<N>.xml` as a worksheet, so `/xl/...` or `xl/./...` cannot skip a counter, and ExcelJS parses only a STORE-only archive rebuilt from the entries admission inflated (`buildAdmittedArchive()`), never the fetched bytes; cell text goes through `textContent`, formulas are never evaluated. Bumping either package or editing the worker/core changes `SPREADSHEET_ASSET_VERSION`, which `npm run check:public-assets` pins. xls/ods stay download-only. → [architecture-invariants#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer](docs/architecture-invariants.md#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer)
 
 **Filesystem path picker** (Link Existing "Browse" + the mobile keyboard's `📁 Path` key): lazy one-directory browsing via `GET /api/filesystem/browse`, with `GET /api/filesystem/preview` for the tapped file. Inserts the path **without** Enter, so the prompt is never submitted; the sibling `⌫ All` key clears only the unsent prompt and must never send the agent's `/clear`. ⚠️ This is a **second file-serving surface and inherits neither the attachment confinement nor its ownership scoping** — it allowlists Home, `CASES_DIR`, `/mnt/d` and `CODEMAN_FILE_PICKER_ROOTS`, blocks sensitive trees, and rejects symlink escapes **after** `realpath`. ⚠️ The optional `sessionId` is an ownership boundary that must be `canAccessOwned`-checked by hand (it does not go through `findSessionOrFail`), and in multi-user mode a non-admin gets only their own `userSpacePath` as a root: per-user spaces live INSIDE `homedir()`, so a `Home` root exposes every other user's workspace. Previews go through the same global conversion limiter, and Markdown/TXT/JSON are served as inert `text/plain`. → [architecture-invariants#filesystem-path-picker](docs/architecture-invariants.md#filesystem-path-picker)
 
diff --git a/docs/architecture-invariants.md b/docs/architecture-invariants.md
index ce51923b..bee3efa3 100644
--- a/docs/architecture-invariants.md
+++ b/docs/architecture-invariants.md
@@ -371,9 +371,9 @@ A file path an agent prints is a link on both surfaces it can appear on, and cli
 
 **Out-of-workspace paths go through the attachment routes, not the file routes.** `file-content`/`file-raw` resolve against `workingDir` and 404 anything that escapes it, which is correct and unchanged — but the paths agents most often print (a `/tmp` capture, Claude's own scratchpad, another checkout) are exactly that, so clicking one used to report "File not found" for a file sitting on disk. `openFilePreview()` now detects the case (`_isExternalPreviewPath`, a string compare for ROUTING only; the real decision stays server-side) and registers the path via `POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments` first, rendering by id. ⚠️ That registration passes `notify: false`, which suppresses ONLY the `attachment:detected` broadcast — the guard, the registry entry and the by-id routes are identical either way. Without it every click also popped an attachment card announcing the file already filling the screen. ⚠️ The click is an explicit user action on the **explicit, Origin-guarded** registration route, which is why it may cross the workspace boundary at all; the passive magic-link scanner stays force-confined. A type outside `SUPPORTED_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` (`.svg`, `.bmp`) is refused with a message naming what IS previewable, rather than the registry's own policy term.
 
-⚠️ **The terminal routes an out-of-workspace path to the preview, not the log viewer.** The log viewer spawns `tail -f` and allows only the workspace, `/var/log` and `~/logs`, so an external `.log`/`.json`/code path answered `Path must be within working directory or allowed log directories` while the SAME path clicked in the response viewer previewed fine. `activate()` now checks `_isExternalPreviewPath` alongside `previewsInFileViewer`. In-workspace text keeps the tail viewer, which is the point of it (live follow); nothing widened `file-stream-manager`'s allowlist, so no `tail -f` is spawned on an arbitrary host path.
+⚠️ **The terminal routes an out-of-workspace path to the preview, not the log viewer.** The log viewer spawns `tail -f` and allows only the workspace, `/var/log` and `~/logs`, so an external `.log`/`.json`/code path answered `Path must be within working directory or allowed log directories` while the SAME path clicked in the response viewer previewed fine. `activate()` now checks `_isExternalPreviewPath` alongside `previewsInFileViewer`. In-workspace text keeps the tail viewer, which is the point of it (live follow), except `.html`/`.htm`, which always go to the preview so they render as a page (see below); nothing widened `file-stream-manager`'s allowlist, so no `tail -f` is spawned on an arbitrary host path.
 
-**Text reuses the edit-mode allowlist; markup stays download-only.** `TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` IS `EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS` (`config/file-editing.ts`) rather than a second curated list that would drift from it: if the viewer would open a file for editing inside the workspace, the same file outside it can be read. The justification for widening is that the agent in the session can already `cat` any of these and the picker already previews them, so the suffix was never the confidentiality gate; the path guard is (sensitive-file blocklist, `/root` and `/etc` trees, realpath first). ⚠️ Two consequences had to be handled at the same time: `~/.codeman*/state.json` joined `isSensitivePath` (it persists `SessionState.envOverrides`, and the env allowlist admits key-shaped names like `GEMINI_API_KEY`, so it can hold a live credential), and `html`/`htm` joined `svg` in `serveRawFile`'s **download-only** branch so that widening what can be READ never widens what can RUN on our own origin. Text with no dedicated MIME entry goes out as inert `text/plain; charset=utf-8` + `nosniff`, matching the picker. The by-id text preview is bounded like the workspace one: a `Range` request for the first 512KB (a real partial read, not a discarded 50MB download) plus a 500-line cap, with the footer saying so.
+**Text reuses the edit-mode allowlist; markup stays download-only.** `TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` IS `EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS` (`config/file-editing.ts`) rather than a second curated list that would drift from it: if the viewer would open a file for editing inside the workspace, the same file outside it can be read. The justification for widening is that the agent in the session can already `cat` any of these and the picker already previews them, so the suffix was never the confidentiality gate; the path guard is (sensitive-file blocklist, `/root` and `/etc` trees, realpath first). ⚠️ Two consequences had to be handled at the same time: `~/.codeman*/state.json` joined `isSensitivePath` (it persists `SessionState.envOverrides`, and the env allowlist admits key-shaped names like `GEMINI_API_KEY`, so it can hold a live credential), and `html`/`htm` joined `svg` in `serveRawFile`'s **download-only** branch so that widening what can be READ never widens what can RUN on our own origin. Text with no dedicated MIME entry goes out as inert `text/plain; charset=utf-8` + `nosniff`, matching the picker. ⚠️ **The one place HTML renders is `/html-view/<cap>/...`** (`html-view-routes.ts`, `html-view-capabilities.ts`), never these routes: `POST /api/sessions/:id/html-view` mints a capability for the HTML file's own directory, and every response carries `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox` WITHOUT `allow-same-origin`, so the page is opaque-origin even as a top-level tab and cannot read Codeman or drive its API. The directory is served recursively to the page's scripts (non-dot, asset-allowlisted, realpath-confined, blocklist applied, GET/HEAD only), which is why minting is refused for an HTML file in a hidden directory or directly in a broad root (`/`, home, the temp dir, the cases and user-space roots; `isBroadHtmlViewRoot`). The preview renders it by default; the **Page** pill (`htmlRendered`, per-device like `mdRendered`) and any refused mint fall through to the source view with its Edit button. Tests: `test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts`, the html-view block in `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`, `test/webview-capability-revocation.test.ts`. The by-id text preview is bounded like the workspace one: a `Range` request for the first 512KB (a real partial read, not a discarded 50MB download) plus a 500-line cap, with the footer saying so.
 
 **Media is single-sourced across the two preview paths.** `VIDEO_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` / `AUDIO_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` live in `attachment-registry.ts` and are imported by `file-content`'s media classification, so a clip plays identically whether it is in the workspace or reached by id from outside it. They diverged first: the workspace path had its own inline sets and the registry allowlist had no media at all, so a video an agent wrote to `/tmp` was refused as an unsupported type while the same file inside the repo played. ⚠️ Three things have to line up for a player rather than a dead frame: the extension in the allowlist, a **real MIME entry** in `MIME_TYPES` (a `<video>` refuses to decode `application/octet-stream`, which presents as a player that renders and then does nothing), and the range-aware body (`serveRawFile` → `sendFileBody`) that makes the scrub bar work. `getAttachmentType()` returns the `video`/`audio` members of `AttachmentDetectedType` for them; the attachment card has no per-type CSS and its thumbnail falls back to the type label, since `generateFirstPageThumbnail` has no media branch and answers 204. ⚠️ The image-watcher keeps its OWN narrow detection list (`png/pdf/docx/pptx`), so this does not start popping cards for every video an agent writes.
 
diff --git a/docs/security-architecture.md b/docs/security-architecture.md
index 072cd369..1f1f6e91 100644
--- a/docs/security-architecture.md
+++ b/docs/security-architecture.md
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ A saved dashboard URL renders as a tab, served through Codeman's own origin at `
 - **The proxy is exempt from cookie auth and the Origin/CSRF guard, and that is deliberate.** The iframe is sandboxed without `allow-same-origin`, so it is opaque‑origin: its requests are cross‑site, meaning the `SameSite=lax` session cookie is never attached and its writes and WS upgrades arrive with `Origin: null`. The credential is instead a 192‑bit capability in the path, minted only by an authenticated `POST /api/webviews/:id/open`, held in memory (a restart invalidates every one), rolling TTL, bound to the minting user, and granting nothing but "relay bytes to this one saved URL". ⚠️ **The Host allowlist is NOT bypassed**, so DNS‑rebinding protection is unaffected. A second `Referer`‑keyed form exists for root‑absolute assets and is the only exemption decided by a request‑supplied header, so it is fenced to safe methods on non‑`/api`, non‑`/ws`, non‑`/q` paths. Edges pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`.
 - **The lost‑frame recovery page is the third unauthenticated 200, and the only one decided by request headers alone.** The proxy's runtime shim masks `/webview/<cap>/` off the page's own URL so a single‑page app routes on the path it expects; a navigation the page then starts itself (`location.reload()`, a root‑absolute `location.href`) lands on Codeman's root with no capability anywhere, no cookie (opaque origin) and a Referer naming the masked page. `serveLostWebviewFrame()` in `middleware/auth.ts` recognises it by shape (`GET`/`HEAD`, `Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe` or `frame`, `Accept: text/html`, `Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate` or absent) and answers, BEFORE the credential checks and without counting an auth failure, with a static page whose only content is a `postMessage` of the lost path to the parent tab (`default-src 'none'` plus the hash of that one script, `no-store`, `referrer: no-referrer`, no reflected input). It is fenced to paths that are NOT registered routes and never `/api/`, `/ws/` or `/q/`, with one carve‑out: `/` itself, because the landing page masks to exactly `/` and its reload otherwise rendered Codeman's app shell inside the web tab. `/` is admitted only when the request carries neither the `codeman_session` cookie nor an `Authorization` header: nothing in Codeman frames its own root and a sandboxed frame has neither, while a framed `/` that does carry credentials still gets the shell. On a passwordless install no auth hook runs, so the index route applies the same test itself (`isLostWebviewRootFrame`). ⚠️ Known property, accepted rather than mitigated: those headers are trivially set by a non‑browser client, so an unauthenticated caller can distinguish a registered route (401) from a non‑route (200) and enumerate the route table; the routes are public in `docs/api-reference.md`, so nothing is learned. Pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts` (password) and `test/webview-lost-root-frame.test.ts` (passwordless).
 - **Sandboxed by default; `allow-same-origin` is an explicit per‑dashboard opt‑in.** A proxied page is same‑origin with Codeman, so without the sandbox its JavaScript could read the Codeman document and call the agent‑spawning API. ⚠️ In BOTH modes the `Authorization` header and the `codeman_session` cookie are stripped before the upstream request, because a trusted (same‑origin) frame makes the browser attach Codeman's own Basic‑auth credentials to every proxied request; forwarding them would hand `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` to the dashboard.
+- **Rendered HTML files (`/html-view/<capability>/`) are the other capability-gated route that skips cookie auth.** A clicked `.html` file renders through it so an agent's report can be viewed from any device. The exemption is narrower than the proxy's: `GET`/`HEAD` only, the capability in the path only (no `Referer` form), and it is a separate store, so a web-tab capability never opens a page and vice versa. The capability is minted by an authenticated `POST /api/sessions/:id/html-view` (session ownership via `findSessionOrFail`, the attachment guard for out-of-workspace files), held in memory with a rolling TTL and revoked with the web-tab ones on logout, admin logout and user deletion. Every response carries `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox` without `allow-same-origin`, so the page is opaque-origin even when opened as a top-level tab and cannot read Codeman's document, cookies or API. It may read its own directory tree (non-dot, asset-allowlisted, realpath-confined, blocklist applied), so minting is refused for an HTML file in a hidden directory or directly in a broad root (`/`, home, the temp dir, the cases and user-space roots). Pinned by `test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts` and the html-view block in `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`.
 - **Not an open relay, and not a privilege boundary.** `resolveUpstreamUrl()` refuses anything leaving the saved origin, and cross‑origin redirects are handed back unchanged rather than followed. The proxy does reach whatever the SERVER can reach, which is not an escalation for someone who already commands `--dangerously-skip-permissions` agents, but in multi‑user mode it means a non‑admin's dashboard is fetched from the server's network position. Saved URLs are validated to plain http(s) with no embedded credentials, and there is deliberately **no magic‑link path**: terminal output can never create a webview (the mistake the attachment scanner had to be walled off from). The one refused destination class is link‑local and cloud‑metadata addresses (`169.254.0.0/16`, `fe80::/10`, `fd00:ec2::254`, `168.63.129.16`, `100.100.100.200`, `metadata.google.internal`): `webview-egress-policy.ts` refuses them at save time, and `webview-egress.ts` re‑judges the RESOLVED address at connect time through a `lookup` hook on the proxy's undici Agent and on its WebSocket client, so a DNS name pointing into those ranges is refused as well. Loopback and RFC1918 stay allowed on purpose. Capabilities are revoked on logout, admin logout and user deletion, and proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin` so a dashboard cannot hand the capability‑bearing URL to a third‑party host it links.
 
 ---
diff --git a/docs/wiki/Working-With-Files.md b/docs/wiki/Working-With-Files.md
index 8e7b5afa..5465bd0b 100644
--- a/docs/wiki/Working-With-Files.md
+++ b/docs/wiki/Working-With-Files.md
@@ -101,8 +101,16 @@ Outside the workspace the allowlist is images, video, audio, PDF, Office documen
 files, where "text" is the same list the viewer will let you edit: code, config, logs, csv,
 markdown. The reasoning is that a session can already `cat` any of those, so the file suffix
 was never what kept anything secret; the path guard is. Types outside the list (`.svg`,
-`.bmp`) say so rather than failing silently, and `.html` previews as source rather than being
-rendered, so nothing served this way can execute in the page.
+`.bmp`) say so rather than failing silently.
+
+An `.html` file opens as a rendered page by default, with its relative CSS, scripts, images and
+data files. The page is served from a separate `/html-view/...` address in a sandbox with no
+origin of its own, so its scripts can never read Codeman's page, cookies or API. The **Page**
+pill in the viewer header switches to the source view (where **Edit** works as for any text
+file), and the viewer falls back to source on its own when a page cannot be rendered: a remote
+(SSH) case, an HTML file inside a hidden folder, or one sitting directly in a broad folder such
+as your home folder or `/tmp` (the page may read the files in its own folder tree, so move it
+into a folder of its own). The raw file routes still serve HTML as a download only.
 
 Text previews are capped at the first 500 lines, fetched as a partial read, so clicking a
 one-gigabyte log does not try to paint one.
diff --git a/src/html-view-capabilities.ts b/src/html-view-capabilities.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9d62ebb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/html-view-capabilities.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Capability tokens for rendering a local HTML file.
+ *
+ * `file-raw` never serves HTML as HTML: a page rendered from Codeman's own origin
+ * could read the Codeman document and drive the agent-spawning API. So an HTML
+ * file is rendered from `/html-view/:cap/*` instead, with a `Content-Security-
+ * Policy: sandbox` header that puts the document in an OPAQUE origin no matter how
+ * it is opened (iframe or top-level tab). That opaque origin is also why the route
+ * cannot authenticate on the session cookie: its subresource requests are
+ * cross-site, so the `SameSite=lax` cookie is never attached (the same reason the
+ * web-tab proxy uses capabilities, see webview-capabilities.ts).
+ *
+ * A capability is minted by an authenticated `POST /api/sessions/:id/html-view` and
+ * grants exactly one thing: GET access to the files in ONE directory (the HTML
+ * file's own), so a page's relative `style.css` / `chart.js` / images resolve.
+ *
+ * - 192 bits of `randomBytes` entropy, base64url.
+ * - Held in memory only. A restart invalidates every outstanding capability.
+ * - Rolling TTL, revoked on logout, admin logout and user deletion (`revokeOwner`).
+ */
+
+import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import { StaleExpirationMap } from './utils/index.js';
+import { MAX_WEBVIEW_CAPABILITIES, WEBVIEW_CAPABILITY_TTL_MS } from './config/webview-limits.js';
+
+/** URL prefix the rendered files are served under. */
+export const HTML_VIEW_PREFIX = '/html-view';
+
+export interface HtmlViewCapabilityRecord {
+  /** Realpath of the directory the capability serves. */
+  rootDir: string;
+  /** Username that minted it (multi-user); undefined in single-user mode. */
+  owner?: string;
+  createdAt: number;
+}
+
+export class HtmlViewCapabilityStore {
+  private readonly capabilities: StaleExpirationMap<string, HtmlViewCapabilityRecord>;
+  /** Reverse index so re-opening a page reuses its capability instead of leaking one per click. */
+  private readonly byRoot = new Map<string, string>();
+
+  constructor(ttlMs: number = WEBVIEW_CAPABILITY_TTL_MS) {
+    this.capabilities = new StaleExpirationMap<string, HtmlViewCapabilityRecord>({
+      ttlMs,
+      refreshOnGet: true,
+      onExpire: (token, record) => {
+        const key = rootKey(record.rootDir, record.owner);
+        if (this.byRoot.get(key) === token) this.byRoot.delete(key);
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  /** Mint (or reuse) a capability for a directory. Returns the token. */
+  mint(rootDir: string, owner?: string): string {
+    const key = rootKey(rootDir, owner);
+    const existing = this.byRoot.get(key);
+    if (existing && this.capabilities.get(existing)) return existing;
+    if (existing) this.byRoot.delete(key);
+
+    if (this.capabilities.size >= MAX_WEBVIEW_CAPABILITIES) this.capabilities.cleanup();
+
+    const token = randomBytes(24).toString('base64url');
+    this.capabilities.set(token, { rootDir, owner, createdAt: Date.now() });
+    this.byRoot.set(key, token);
+    return token;
+  }
+
+  /** Resolve a capability, refreshing its TTL. Returns undefined when unknown or expired. */
+  resolve(token: string): HtmlViewCapabilityRecord | undefined {
+    if (!token) return undefined;
+    return this.capabilities.get(token);
+  }
+
+  /** Revoke every capability bound to an identity (logout, admin logout, user deletion). */
+  revokeOwner(owner: string | undefined): number {
+    let revoked = 0;
+    for (const [key, token] of [...this.byRoot]) {
+      const record = this.capabilities.peek(token);
+      if (!record || record.owner === owner) {
+        this.capabilities.delete(token);
+        this.byRoot.delete(key);
+        if (record) revoked++;
+      }
+    }
+    return revoked;
+  }
+
+  get size(): number {
+    return this.capabilities.size;
+  }
+
+  dispose(): void {
+    this.capabilities.dispose();
+    this.byRoot.clear();
+  }
+}
+
+function rootKey(rootDir: string, owner: string | undefined): string {
+  return `${owner ?? ''}\0${rootDir}`;
+}
+
+/** The capability token in an `/html-view/<cap>/...` path, or null. */
+export function capabilityFromHtmlViewPath(pathname: string): string | null {
+  if (typeof pathname !== 'string') return null;
+  const prefix = `${HTML_VIEW_PREFIX}/`;
+  if (!pathname.startsWith(prefix)) return null;
+  const rest = pathname.slice(prefix.length);
+  const slash = rest.indexOf('/');
+  const cap = slash === -1 ? rest : rest.slice(0, slash);
+  return /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{16,128}$/.test(cap) ? cap : null;
+}
+
+/** Process-wide store, shared by the routes and the auth middleware (see webviewCapabilities). */
+export const htmlViewCapabilities = new HtmlViewCapabilityStore();
diff --git a/src/web/middleware/auth.ts b/src/web/middleware/auth.ts
index 9dc78bcd..0816c2ab 100644
--- a/src/web/middleware/auth.ts
+++ b/src/web/middleware/auth.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { getHookSecret, HOOK_SECRET_HEADER } from '../../config/hook-secret.js';
 import { isMultiUserMode } from '../../config/multiuser.js';
 import { findUser, setPassword, touchLastLogin, verifyPassword } from '../../user-store.js';
 import { webviewCapabilities } from '../../webview-capabilities.js';
+import { capabilityFromHtmlViewPath, htmlViewCapabilities } from '../../html-view-capabilities.js';
 import {
   capabilityFromProxyPath,
   capabilityFromReferer,
@@ -149,6 +150,18 @@ function isPasswordChangeExempt(req: FastifyRequest): boolean {
  * match the prefix at all. The Host allowlist is NOT bypassed, so DNS-rebinding
  * protection still applies to these requests.
  */
+/**
+ * Whether a request is a GET for a rendered HTML file (`/html-view/<cap>/...`) with
+ * a live capability. Same reasoning as the web-tab proxy: the page is sandboxed into
+ * an opaque origin, so its asset requests carry no session cookie. Read-only by
+ * construction (safe methods only), and the Host allowlist still applies.
+ */
+function hasValidHtmlViewCapability(req: FastifyRequest): boolean {
+  if (req.method !== 'GET' && req.method !== 'HEAD') return false;
+  const cap = capabilityFromHtmlViewPath((req.url ?? '').split('?')[0]);
+  return !!cap && htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(cap) !== undefined;
+}
+
 function hasValidWebviewCapability(req: FastifyRequest, basePath = ''): boolean {
   // req.url is already base-stripped by the server's rewriteUrl, so the path form
   // needs no base; the Referer form below is browser-supplied and does.
@@ -368,6 +381,11 @@ export function registerAuthMiddleware(app: FastifyInstance, https: boolean, bas
       done();
       return;
     }
+    // Rendered HTML file, likewise authenticated by its capability.
+    if (hasValidHtmlViewCapability(req)) {
+      done();
+      return;
+    }
     // A web-tab frame that lost its prefix: hand it back to its tab, no credentials involved.
     if (serveLostWebviewFrame(req, reply)) return;
 
@@ -507,6 +525,8 @@ function registerMultiUserAuthHook(
     // ownership against the identity BOUND TO THE CAPABILITY, which is stricter
     // than re-deriving it from a request that carries no credentials.
     if (hasValidWebviewCapability(req, basePath)) return;
+    // Rendered HTML file, likewise authenticated by its capability.
+    if (hasValidHtmlViewCapability(req)) return;
     // A web-tab frame that lost its prefix: hand it back to its tab, no credentials involved.
     if (serveLostWebviewFrame(req, reply)) return;
 
diff --git a/src/web/public/index.html b/src/web/public/index.html
index cb6d38d0..039c4fee 100644
--- a/src/web/public/index.html
+++ b/src/web/public/index.html
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@
           <span class="file-preview-title" id="filePreviewTitle">file.ts</span>
           <div class="file-preview-actions">
             <button class="btn-icon-sm file-preview-pill" id="filePreviewMdBtn" onclick="app.toggleFilePreviewMd()" title="Rendered markdown" aria-label="Rendered markdown" aria-pressed="true" hidden>MD</button>
+            <button class="btn-icon-sm file-preview-pill" id="filePreviewPageBtn" onclick="app.toggleFilePreviewPage()" title="Rendered page" aria-label="Rendered page" aria-pressed="true" hidden>Page</button>
             <button class="btn-icon-sm" id="filePreviewLinesBtn" onclick="app.toggleFilePreviewLines()" title="Line numbers" aria-label="Line numbers" aria-pressed="false" hidden><svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"><line x1="10" y1="6" x2="21" y2="6"/><line x1="10" y1="12" x2="21" y2="12"/><line x1="10" y1="18" x2="21" y2="18"/><path d="M4 6h1v4"/><path d="M4 10h2"/><path d="M6 18H4c0-1 2-2 2-3s-1-1.5-2-1"/></svg></button>
             <button class="btn-icon-sm" id="filePreviewWrapBtn" onclick="app.toggleFilePreviewWrap()" title="Wrap lines" aria-label="Wrap lines" aria-pressed="true" hidden><svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"><line x1="3" y1="6" x2="21" y2="6"/><path d="M3 12h15a3 3 0 1 1 0 6h-4"/><polyline points="16 16 14 18 16 20"/><line x1="3" y1="18" x2="10" y2="18"/></svg></button>
             <button class="btn-icon-sm file-preview-edit-btn" id="filePreviewEditBtn" onclick="app.enterFilePreviewEdit()" title="Edit file" aria-label="Edit file" hidden><svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M17 3a2.85 2.83 0 1 1 4 4L7.5 20.5 2 22l1.5-5.5z"/></svg></button>
diff --git a/src/web/public/panels-ui.js b/src/web/public/panels-ui.js
index 6781e575..93b6cfc7 100644
--- a/src/web/public/panels-ui.js
+++ b/src/web/public/panels-ui.js
@@ -24,16 +24,18 @@ const TEXT_PREVIEW_MAX_LINES = 500;
 // cap: a rendered README cut mid-way reads as the whole document.
 const MARKDOWN_PREVIEW_MAX_LINES = 10000;
 const MARKDOWN_EXTS = new Set(['md', 'markdown']);
+const HTML_PAGE_EXTS = new Set(['html', 'htm']);
 // File Viewer text-view prefs: per-device, in their own localStorage keys for
 // the same reason as FILE_BROWSER_SHOW_HIDDEN_KEY (the app-settings object is
 // rebuilt from the settings modal on save, so a key toggled from the viewer
 // would be dropped on the next save).
 const FILE_PREVIEW_PREF_KEYS = {
   mdRendered: 'codeman:filePreviewMdRendered',
+  htmlRendered: 'codeman:filePreviewHtmlRendered',
   lineNumbers: 'codeman:filePreviewLineNumbers',
   wrap: 'codeman:filePreviewWrap',
 };
-const FILE_PREVIEW_PREF_DEFAULTS = { mdRendered: true, lineNumbers: false, wrap: true };
+const FILE_PREVIEW_PREF_DEFAULTS = { mdRendered: true, htmlRendered: true, lineNumbers: false, wrap: true };
 const AWAY_DIGEST_SECTIONS = [
   ['needsAttention', 'Needs Attention'],
   ['completed', 'Completed'],
@@ -4106,6 +4108,8 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
     // Same for the text-view toggles: they act on the text this load has not
     // fetched yet, and an image or PDF has nothing for them to toggle.
     this.filePreviewText = null;
+    this.filePreviewPage = null;
+    this.filePreviewPageRefused = false;
     this._updateFilePreviewToolbar('none');
 
     // Show overlay with loading state
@@ -4116,6 +4120,27 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
 
     const ext = (filePath.split('.').pop() || '').toLowerCase();
 
+    // HTML renders as a page: the server mints a sandboxed /html-view URL for the
+    // file's directory (html-view-routes.ts), so relative CSS, scripts and images
+    // resolve, and the page runs in an opaque origin that cannot reach Codeman.
+    // The Page pill switches to the source view below (with its Edit button), and
+    // a refused mint (remote case, broad folder, hidden directory) falls through
+    // to that source view on its own.
+    if (!attachmentId && HTML_PAGE_EXTS.has(ext) && this._filePreviewPref('htmlRendered')) {
+      const pageUrl = await this._mintHtmlViewUrl(filePath, sessionId);
+      if (pageUrl) {
+        footerEl.textContent = 'HTML';
+        this.filePreviewPage = { filePath, sessionId };
+        this.filePreviewDetachUrl = pageUrl;
+        if (detachBtn) detachBtn.hidden = false;
+        bodyEl.innerHTML = `<iframe src="${escapeHtml(pageUrl)}" title="${escapeHtml(filePath)}" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-forms allow-popups allow-modals allow-downloads"></iframe>`;
+        this._updateFilePreviewToolbar('page');
+        return;
+      }
+      // The pill would only retry a page the server just refused.
+      this.filePreviewPageRefused = true;
+    }
+
     // Out-of-workspace path: mint an attachment id up front. Every branch below
     // talks to a workspace-confined route, so without this the image/PDF ones
     // render a broken frame and the text one reports a bare "File not found"
@@ -4571,8 +4596,9 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
 
   /**
    * Show the toggles that apply to the current view: MD for a markdown file in
-   * either view, Lines/Wrap for the plain-text view only; `'none'` (loading,
-   * image, media, PDF, edit mode) hides all three.
+   * either view, Page for an HTML file in either view (`'page'` = rendered),
+   * Lines/Wrap for the plain-text view only; `'none'` (loading, image, media,
+   * PDF, edit mode) hides them all.
    */
   _updateFilePreviewToolbar(view) {
     const set = (id, shown, pressed) => {
@@ -4583,10 +4609,42 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
     };
     const isMarkdown = view !== 'none' && MARKDOWN_EXTS.has(this.filePreviewText?.ext || '');
     set('filePreviewMdBtn', isMarkdown, view === 'markdown');
+    // Page: shown on a rendered HTML page, and on its source view when that view
+    // can be re-rendered (a bare attachment-card name has no path to mint from).
+    const text = this.filePreviewText;
+    const htmlSource =
+      view === 'text' &&
+      !this.filePreviewPageRefused &&
+      HTML_PAGE_EXTS.has(text?.ext || '') &&
+      (!text.attachmentId || text.filePath.startsWith('/'));
+    set('filePreviewPageBtn', view === 'page' || htmlSource, view === 'page');
     set('filePreviewLinesBtn', view === 'text', this._filePreviewPref('lineNumbers'));
     set('filePreviewWrapBtn', view === 'text', this._filePreviewPref('wrap'));
   },
 
+  /** Mint the sandboxed page URL for an HTML file; null when the server refuses. */
+  async _mintHtmlViewUrl(filePath, sessionId) {
+    try {
+      const res = await fetch(`/api/sessions/${sessionId}/html-view`, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+        body: JSON.stringify({ path: filePath }),
+      });
+      const result = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+      return res.ok && result.success ? CodemanBase.url(result.data.url) : null;
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  },
+
+  /** Page pill: flip between the rendered page and the source view of an HTML file. */
+  toggleFilePreviewPage() {
+    const target = this.filePreviewPage || this.filePreviewText;
+    if (!target) return;
+    this._setFilePreviewPref('htmlRendered', !this._filePreviewPref('htmlRendered'));
+    this.openFilePreview(target.filePath, target.sessionId);
+  },
+
   toggleFilePreviewMd() {
     this._setFilePreviewPref('mdRendered', !this._filePreviewPref('mdRendered'));
     this._renderFilePreviewText();
diff --git a/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js b/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
index 5a8f659b..fc3bc94f 100644
--- a/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
+++ b/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
@@ -2089,7 +2089,9 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
               // reads those through the guarded attachment routes, so external
               // paths route there and the two surfaces agree.
               const sessionId = getSessionId();
-              if (previewsInFileViewer(text) || self._isExternalPreviewPath(text, sessionId)) {
+              // An HTML file renders as a page in the preview, never as source
+              // in the log viewer.
+              if (previewsInFileViewer(text) || /\.html?$/i.test(text) || self._isExternalPreviewPath(text, sessionId)) {
                 self.openFilePreview(text, sessionId);
                 return;
               }
diff --git a/src/web/routes/admin-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/admin-routes.ts
index 8f9294c9..5f0705d4 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/admin-routes.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/admin-routes.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../user-store.js';
 import { getAuthUser, requireAdmin, revokeUserSessions } from '../route-helpers.js';
 import { webviewCapabilities } from '../../webview-capabilities.js';
+import { htmlViewCapabilities } from '../../html-view-capabilities.js';
 import { appendAdminAudit } from '../admin-audit.js';
 import { SseEvent } from '../sse-events.js';
 import type { AuthPort } from '../ports/auth-port.js';
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ export function registerAdminRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, ctx: SessionPort & Aut
     // Web-tab proxy capabilities are a second credential the cookie purge does not
     // touch; a forced logout that left them alive would not be a logout.
     const revokedWebviews = webviewCapabilities.revokeOwner(normalizeUsername(username));
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(normalizeUsername(username));
     audit(req, 'user.logout', username, { revoked, revokedWebviews });
     return { success: true, data: { revoked } };
   });
@@ -206,6 +208,7 @@ export function registerAdminRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, ctx: SessionPort & Aut
       }
       revokeUserSessions(ctx.authSessions, username);
       webviewCapabilities.revokeOwner(normalizeUsername(username));
+      htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(normalizeUsername(username));
       if (deleteSpace) await deleteUserSpace(username);
       audit(req, 'user.delete', username, { deleteSpace, killedSessions: owned.length });
       ctx.broadcast(SseEvent.AdminUsersChanged, {});
diff --git a/src/web/routes/file-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/file-routes.ts
index a74ece87..e9549b3d 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/file-routes.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/file-routes.ts
@@ -271,7 +271,9 @@ async function serveRawFile(
   // would be stored XSS. SVG was always here; HTML/HTM join it now that the text
   // family is servable, so widening what can be READ never widened what can RUN.
   // The preview overlay reads these through `fetch()`, which ignores the
-  // disposition, so a clicked .html still shows its source.
+  // disposition, so the source view of a clicked .html still works. Rendering it
+  // as a page is html-view-routes.ts's job (sandboxed, opaque origin), never this
+  // route's.
   const markupOnly = extension === 'svg' || extension === 'html' || extension === 'htm';
   if (download || markupOnly) {
     reply.header(
diff --git a/src/web/routes/html-view-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/html-view-routes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..125d0d6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/web/routes/html-view-routes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Render a local HTML file (an agent's report, a generated page) as a
+ * page instead of as source text.
+ *
+ * Routes:
+ * - `POST /api/sessions/:id/html-view` (authenticated) — `{ path }` of an `.html` file;
+ *   returns `{ url }`, an `/html-view/<cap>/<file>` URL for that file.
+ * - `GET /html-view/:cap/*` (capability) — the HTML file and its sibling assets.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ Every response carries `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox ...` WITHOUT
+ * `allow-same-origin`, so the page runs in an opaque origin whether it is framed or
+ * opened as a top-level tab: it can run its own scripts but cannot read the Codeman
+ * document, its cookies or its API. That is what makes rendering safe at all; see
+ * html-view-capabilities.ts for why the route authenticates on a capability.
+ *
+ * Path policy: the HTML file itself is admitted like the file preview admits a file
+ * (inside the session workspace, or outside it under the attachment guard), and the
+ * capability then serves ONLY the files in that file's own directory tree, filtered
+ * by the same blocklist plus an asset-extension allowlist and a no-dotfile rule, so
+ * a page cannot use its own directory to pull a `.env` out through the browser.
+ * Because that tree is served recursively, minting is refused for an HTML file in a
+ * hidden directory or directly in a broad root (`/`, home, the temp dir, the cases
+ * and user-space roots), see {@link isBroadHtmlViewRoot}.
+ */
+
+import type { FastifyInstance } from 'fastify';
+import { createReadStream, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { homedir, tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { basename, dirname, extname, isAbsolute, resolve, sep } from 'node:path';
+import { ApiErrorCode, createErrorResponse } from '../../types.js';
+import { isBlockedAttachmentPath, isUnderTree, loadAttachmentGuardConfig } from '../../config/attachment-guard.js';
+import { HTML_VIEW_PREFIX, htmlViewCapabilities } from '../../html-view-capabilities.js';
+import { CASES_DIR, findSessionOrFail, ownerFor, validateSessionFilePath } from '../route-helpers.js';
+import { getUserSpacesDir } from '../../config/multiuser.js';
+import { exceedsDownloadLimit } from '../../config/buffer-limits.js';
+import type { SessionPort } from '../ports/index.js';
+
+/** Extensions that open as a rendered page. */
+export const HTML_VIEW_EXTENSIONS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(['html', 'htm']);
+
+/** What a rendered page may load from its own directory, with the type it is served as. */
+const ASSET_TYPES: Record<string, string> = {
+  html: 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+  htm: 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+  css: 'text/css; charset=utf-8',
+  js: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8',
+  mjs: 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8',
+  json: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
+  map: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
+  txt: 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
+  csv: 'text/csv; charset=utf-8',
+  md: 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
+  svg: 'image/svg+xml',
+  png: 'image/png',
+  jpg: 'image/jpeg',
+  jpeg: 'image/jpeg',
+  gif: 'image/gif',
+  webp: 'image/webp',
+  avif: 'image/avif',
+  ico: 'image/x-icon',
+  bmp: 'image/bmp',
+  woff: 'font/woff',
+  woff2: 'font/woff2',
+  ttf: 'font/ttf',
+  otf: 'font/otf',
+  wasm: 'application/wasm',
+  mp4: 'video/mp4',
+  webm: 'video/webm',
+  mp3: 'audio/mpeg',
+  wav: 'audio/wav',
+  pdf: 'application/pdf',
+};
+
+/**
+ * The sandbox every response is served under. No `allow-same-origin`: that one
+ * token is the difference between "a page" and "a page that can drive Codeman".
+ */
+const SANDBOX_CSP = 'sandbox allow-scripts allow-forms allow-popups allow-modals allow-downloads';
+
+function extensionOf(path: string): string {
+  return extname(path).toLowerCase().replace(/^\./, '');
+}
+
+/** realpath when the path exists, else the plain resolved path. */
+function canonical(path: string): string {
+  try {
+    return realpathSync(path);
+  } catch {
+    return resolve(path);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether a directory is too broad to hand to a page as its asset root. The
+ * capability serves the HTML file's directory RECURSIVELY to the page's own
+ * scripts, so `/tmp/report.html` would expose every other session's scratch
+ * output under `/tmp`, and `~/report.html` the home tree. Refuse those roots
+ * (and the cases / user-space roots, which hold every workspace) outright.
+ */
+export function isBroadHtmlViewRoot(dir: string): boolean {
+  const target = canonical(dir);
+  const userSpaces = canonical(getUserSpacesDir());
+  const broad = [sep, homedir(), tmpdir(), CASES_DIR, userSpaces].map(canonical);
+  if (broad.includes(target)) return true;
+  // A user's own space (`<spaces>/<user>`) and its cases dir hold every workspace of that user.
+  if (dirname(target) === userSpaces) return true;
+  return basename(target) === 'cases' && dirname(dirname(target)) === userSpaces;
+}
+
+export function registerHtmlViewRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, ctx: SessionPort): void {
+  app.post('/api/sessions/:id/html-view', async (req, reply) => {
+    const { id } = req.params as { id: string };
+    const session = findSessionOrFail(ctx, id, req);
+    const body = (req.body || {}) as { path?: string };
+
+    if (!body.path || typeof body.path !== 'string') {
+      reply.code(400).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT, 'Missing path parameter'));
+      return;
+    }
+    if (session.remote) {
+      reply
+        .code(400)
+        .send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT, 'HTML pages in a remote (SSH) case cannot be rendered'));
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!HTML_VIEW_EXTENSIONS.has(extensionOf(body.path))) {
+      reply.code(400).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT, 'Not an HTML file'));
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Inside the workspace: the same check every file route uses. Outside it: the
+    // attachment guard, exactly as an external file preview is admitted.
+    let resolvedPath: string;
+    const inWorkspace = validateSessionFilePath(session.workingDir, body.path);
+    if (inWorkspace) {
+      resolvedPath = inWorkspace.resolvedPath;
+    } else {
+      if (!isAbsolute(body.path)) {
+        reply.code(404).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.NOT_FOUND, 'File not found'));
+        return;
+      }
+      try {
+        resolvedPath = realpathSync(body.path);
+      } catch {
+        reply.code(404).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.NOT_FOUND, 'File not found'));
+        return;
+      }
+      const guard = await loadAttachmentGuardConfig();
+      if (guard.confineToWorkspace || isBlockedAttachmentPath(resolvedPath, guard.blockedTrees)) {
+        reply.code(403).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT, 'Access to this file is blocked'));
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const stat = await fs.stat(resolvedPath).catch(() => null);
+    if (!stat?.isFile()) {
+      reply.code(404).send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.NOT_FOUND, 'File not found'));
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // The serving route never descends into a dot segment below the capability
+    // root; the HTML file's own path gets the same rule, or `.cache/r.html` would
+    // mint a capability over a hidden directory and serve its `token.json`.
+    if (resolvedPath.split(sep).some((segment) => segment.startsWith('.'))) {
+      reply
+        .code(403)
+        .send(createErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT, 'HTML files in hidden directories cannot be rendered'));
+      return;
+    }
+    if (isBroadHtmlViewRoot(dirname(resolvedPath))) {
+      reply
+        .code(403)
+        .send(
+          createErrorResponse(
+            ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT,
+            'This folder is too broad to render a page from; move the HTML file into its own folder'
+          )
+        );
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const cap = htmlViewCapabilities.mint(dirname(resolvedPath), ownerFor(req));
+    return {
+      success: true,
+      data: { url: `${HTML_VIEW_PREFIX}/${cap}/${encodeURIComponent(basename(resolvedPath))}` },
+    };
+  });
+
+  app.get(`${HTML_VIEW_PREFIX}/:cap/*`, async (req, reply) => {
+    const { cap, '*': rest } = req.params as { cap: string; '*': string };
+    const record = htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(cap);
+    const notFound = () => reply.code(404).header('Content-Type', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8').send('Not found');
+    if (!record) return notFound();
+
+    // Fastify has already percent-decoded the wildcard. Hidden files and
+    // directories are never served, whatever their extension.
+    const segments = (rest || '').split('/').filter(Boolean);
+    if (segments.length === 0 || segments.some((s) => s.startsWith('.'))) return notFound();
+
+    const ext = extensionOf(segments[segments.length - 1]);
+    const contentType = ASSET_TYPES[ext];
+    if (!contentType) return notFound();
+
+    let resolvedPath: string;
+    try {
+      resolvedPath = realpathSync(resolve(record.rootDir, segments.join(sep)));
+    } catch {
+      return notFound();
+    }
+    // Symlinks are resolved above, so this is the real containment check.
+    if (!isUnderTree(resolvedPath, record.rootDir)) return notFound();
+    const guard = await loadAttachmentGuardConfig();
+    if (isBlockedAttachmentPath(resolvedPath, guard.blockedTrees)) return notFound();
+
+    const stat = await fs.stat(resolvedPath).catch(() => null);
+    if (!stat?.isFile() || exceedsDownloadLimit(stat.size)) return notFound();
+
+    reply.header('Content-Security-Policy', SANDBOX_CSP);
+    reply.header('Content-Type', contentType);
+    reply.header('Content-Length', String(stat.size));
+    reply.header('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
+    reply.header('Referrer-Policy', 'no-referrer');
+    // The sandboxed page is opaque-origin, so even its fetch() of a sibling
+    // `data.json` is CORS-checked with `Origin: null`. `*` without credentials is
+    // enough, and widens nothing: these bytes are already readable by anyone
+    // holding the capability URL.
+    reply.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
+    return reply.send(createReadStream(resolvedPath));
+  });
+}
diff --git a/src/web/routes/index.ts b/src/web/routes/index.ts
index 67d9ce0e..7d9be0b1 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/index.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export { registerPushRoutes } from './push-routes.js';
 export { registerTeamRoutes } from './team-routes.js';
 export { registerMuxRoutes } from './mux-routes.js';
 export { registerFileRoutes } from './file-routes.js';
+export { registerHtmlViewRoutes } from './html-view-routes.js';
 export { registerScheduledRoutes } from './scheduled-routes.js';
 export { registerCronRoutes } from './cron-routes.js';
 export { registerSystemRoutes } from './system-routes.js';
diff --git a/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
index 5960d9e6..8df222aa 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import {
 import type { PaneCaptureOptions } from '../../mux-interface.js';
 import { SseEvent } from '../sse-events.js';
 import { webviewCapabilities } from '../../webview-capabilities.js';
+import { htmlViewCapabilities } from '../../html-view-capabilities.js';
 import {
   CreateSessionSchema,
   SessionNameSchema,
@@ -943,6 +944,7 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
     // logout has to retire them too or every dashboard URL opened during this
     // login keeps relaying without one (WebviewCapabilityStore.revokeOwner).
     webviewCapabilities.revokeOwner(ownerFor(req));
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(ownerFor(req));
     reply.clearCookie(AUTH_COOKIE_NAME, { path: '/' });
     return {};
   });
diff --git a/src/web/server.ts b/src/web/server.ts
index bb159e16..7eff6f95 100644
--- a/src/web/server.ts
+++ b/src/web/server.ts
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ import {
   registerTeamRoutes,
   registerMuxRoutes,
   registerFileRoutes,
+  registerHtmlViewRoutes,
   registerScheduledRoutes,
   registerHookEventRoutes,
   registerApprovalRoutes,
@@ -1127,6 +1128,7 @@ export class WebServer extends EventEmitter {
     registerTeamRoutes(this.app, ctx);
     registerMuxRoutes(this.app, ctx);
     registerFileRoutes(this.app, ctx);
+    registerHtmlViewRoutes(this.app, ctx);
     registerScheduledRoutes(this.app, ctx);
     registerHookEventRoutes(this.app, ctx);
     registerApprovalRoutes(this.app, ctx);
diff --git a/test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts b/test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a501463a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/routes/html-view-routes.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Tests for html-view-routes: rendering a local HTML file as a page.
+ *
+ * Real files in a temp dir (no fs mocks): the point of the route is its path
+ * policy, and a mocked realpath would make every containment check pass.
+ * Port: N/A (app.inject doesn't open ports)
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, rmSync, symlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { homedir, tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { createRouteTestHarness, type RouteTestHarness } from './_route-test-utils.js';
+import { isBroadHtmlViewRoot, registerHtmlViewRoutes } from '../../src/web/routes/html-view-routes.js';
+import { capabilityFromHtmlViewPath, htmlViewCapabilities } from '../../src/html-view-capabilities.js';
+
+describe('html-view routes', () => {
+  let harness: RouteTestHarness;
+  let sid: string;
+  let root: string;
+  let workspace: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'html-view-'));
+    workspace = join(root, 'ws');
+    mkdirSync(join(workspace, 'assets'), { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, 'index.html'), '<h1>hi</h1>');
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, 'assets', 'app.css'), 'h1{}');
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, 'data.json'), '{}');
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, '.env'), 'SECRET=1');
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, 'notes.sh'), 'echo');
+    writeFileSync(join(root, 'outside.txt'), 'outside');
+    symlinkSync(join(root, 'outside.txt'), join(workspace, 'escape.txt'));
+
+    harness = await createRouteTestHarness(registerHtmlViewRoutes);
+    sid = harness.ctx._sessionId as string;
+    (harness.ctx.sessions.get(sid) as { workingDir: string }).workingDir = workspace;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await harness.app.close();
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(undefined);
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  async function open(path: string) {
+    return harness.app.inject({ method: 'POST', url: `/api/sessions/${sid}/html-view`, payload: { path } });
+  }
+
+  async function openUrl(): Promise<string> {
+    const res = await open(join(workspace, 'index.html'));
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    return JSON.parse(res.body).data.url as string;
+  }
+
+  it('mints a capability URL for an HTML file in the workspace', async () => {
+    const url = await openUrl();
+    expect(url).toMatch(/^\/html-view\/[A-Za-z0-9_-]{16,}\/index\.html$/);
+    expect(capabilityFromHtmlViewPath(url)).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a workspace-relative path', async () => {
+    const res = await open('index.html');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses non-HTML files and missing files', async () => {
+    expect((await open(join(workspace, 'data.json'))).statusCode).toBe(400);
+    expect((await open(join(workspace, 'missing.html'))).statusCode).toBe(404);
+  });
+
+  it('serves the page sandboxed, never same-origin', async () => {
+    const url = await openUrl();
+    const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url });
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.headers['content-type']).toContain('text/html');
+    const csp = String(res.headers['content-security-policy']);
+    expect(csp).toMatch(/^sandbox /);
+    expect(csp).not.toContain('allow-same-origin');
+    expect(res.body).toBe('<h1>hi</h1>');
+  });
+
+  it('serves sibling assets, including subdirectories', async () => {
+    const base = (await openUrl()).replace(/index\.html$/, '');
+    expect((await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `${base}assets/app.css` })).statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect((await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `${base}data.json` })).statusCode).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it('never serves dotfiles, non-asset types, escapes or symlinks out of the directory', async () => {
+    const base = (await openUrl()).replace(/index\.html$/, '');
+    for (const p of ['.env', 'assets/../.env', '%2e%2e/outside.txt', '..%2foutside.txt', 'notes.sh', 'escape.txt']) {
+      const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `${base}${p}` });
+      expect(res.statusCode, p).toBe(404);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('refuses an unknown or revoked capability', async () => {
+    const url = await openUrl();
+    expect(
+      (await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/html-view/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/index.html' })).statusCode
+    ).toBe(404);
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(undefined);
+    expect((await harness.app.inject({ method: 'GET', url })).statusCode).toBe(404);
+  });
+
+  it('reuses one capability per directory', async () => {
+    expect(await openUrl()).toBe(await openUrl());
+  });
+  describe('outside the workspace', () => {
+    let outsideDir: string;
+    const saved = {
+      confine: process.env.CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_CONFINE,
+      blocked: process.env.CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_BLOCKED_PATHS,
+    };
+
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      outsideDir = join(root, 'reports');
+      mkdirSync(outsideDir);
+      writeFileSync(join(outsideDir, 'report.html'), '<p>report</p>');
+    });
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+      for (const [key, value] of [
+        ['CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_CONFINE', saved.confine],
+        ['CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_BLOCKED_PATHS', saved.blocked],
+      ] as const) {
+        if (value === undefined) delete process.env[key];
+        else process.env[key] = value;
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('mints for a page under the attachment guard', async () => {
+      expect((await open(join(outsideDir, 'report.html'))).statusCode).toBe(200);
+    });
+
+    it('refuses a page in a blocked tree', async () => {
+      process.env.CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_BLOCKED_PATHS = outsideDir;
+      expect((await open(join(outsideDir, 'report.html'))).statusCode).toBe(403);
+    });
+
+    it('refuses every out-of-workspace page when attachments are confined to the workspace', async () => {
+      process.env.CODEMAN_ATTACHMENT_CONFINE = '1';
+      expect((await open(join(outsideDir, 'report.html'))).statusCode).toBe(403);
+      // The workspace itself is still fine.
+      expect((await open(join(workspace, 'index.html'))).statusCode).toBe(200);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('refuses an HTML file inside a hidden directory, in or out of the workspace', async () => {
+    mkdirSync(join(workspace, '.cache'));
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, '.cache', 'r.html'), '<p>r</p>');
+    writeFileSync(join(workspace, '.cache', 'token.json'), '{}');
+    expect((await open(join(workspace, '.cache', 'r.html'))).statusCode).toBe(403);
+    mkdirSync(join(root, '.hidden'));
+    writeFileSync(join(root, '.hidden', 'r.html'), '<p>r</p>');
+    expect((await open(join(root, '.hidden', 'r.html'))).statusCode).toBe(403);
+  });
+
+  it('treats the filesystem root, home and the temp dir as too broad to serve', () => {
+    expect(isBroadHtmlViewRoot('/')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isBroadHtmlViewRoot(homedir())).toBe(true);
+    expect(isBroadHtmlViewRoot(tmpdir())).toBe(true);
+    expect(isBroadHtmlViewRoot(workspace)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a page sitting directly in the temp dir', async () => {
+    const page = join(tmpdir(), `html-view-broad-${process.pid}.html`);
+    writeFileSync(page, '<p>broad</p>');
+    try {
+      expect((await open(page)).statusCode).toBe(403);
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(page, { force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts b/test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts
index 49f82a63..952fa26a 100644
--- a/test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts
+++ b/test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import Fastify, { type FastifyInstance } from 'fastify';
 import fastifyCookie from '@fastify/cookie';
 import { registerAuthMiddleware, registerHostGuard, registerSecurityHeaders } from '../src/web/middleware/auth.js';
 import { webviewCapabilities } from '../src/webview-capabilities.js';
+import { htmlViewCapabilities } from '../src/html-view-capabilities.js';
 import type { HostPolicy } from '../src/web/network-auth-policy.js';
 
 const POLICY: HostPolicy = { allowedHosts: [], allowLan: true };
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ const PASSWORD = 'test-password';
 
 let app: FastifyInstance;
 let capability: string;
+let htmlCapability: string;
 let savedPassword: string | undefined;
 
 beforeEach(async () => {
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ beforeEach(async () => {
   process.env.CODEMAN_PASSWORD = PASSWORD;
 
   capability = webviewCapabilities.mint('webview-under-test', undefined);
+  htmlCapability = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/report-under-test', undefined);
 
   app = Fastify({ logger: false });
   await app.register(fastifyCookie);
@@ -48,6 +51,8 @@ beforeEach(async () => {
   app.all('/q/:token', async () => ({ qr: true }));
   app.get('/', async () => 'app shell');
   app.get('/webviewfoo/bar', async () => 'lookalike');
+  app.all('/html-view/:cap/*', async () => ({ page: true }));
+  app.all('/html-viewx/*', async () => 'lookalike');
   // Stand-in for @fastify/static mounted at '/', which is what actually serves
   // /static/app.js in production. It matches EVERY path, so the fence must treat a
   // root catch-all as "no real route" or the Referer form could never apply at all.
@@ -58,6 +63,7 @@ beforeEach(async () => {
 afterEach(async () => {
   await app.close();
   webviewCapabilities.revokeWebview('webview-under-test');
+  htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(undefined);
   if (savedPassword === undefined) delete process.env.CODEMAN_PASSWORD;
   else process.env.CODEMAN_PASSWORD = savedPassword;
 });
@@ -319,3 +325,42 @@ describe('a lost web-tab frame', () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+// The rendered-HTML route (/html-view/<cap>/...) has its own, narrower exemption:
+// read-only, capability in the path only, no Referer form.
+describe('the html-view exemption', () => {
+  it('lets an unauthenticated GET and HEAD through with a live capability', async () => {
+    for (const method of ['GET', 'HEAD'] as const) {
+      const res = await app.inject({ method, url: `/html-view/${htmlCapability}/index.html` });
+      expect(res.statusCode, method).toBe(200);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('never exempts a write on the capability path', async () => {
+    for (const method of ['POST', 'PUT'] as const) {
+      const res = await app.inject({ method, url: `/html-view/${htmlCapability}/index.html`, payload: {} });
+      expect(res.statusCode, method).toBe(401);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('rejects an unknown capability', async () => {
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/html-view/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/index.html' });
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(401);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a revoked capability immediately', async () => {
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner(undefined);
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `/html-view/${htmlCapability}/index.html` });
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(401);
+  });
+
+  it('does not match a lookalike prefix', async () => {
+    const res = await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `/html-viewx/${htmlCapability}/index.html` });
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(401);
+  });
+
+  it('is not a web-tab capability, and a web-tab capability is not an html-view one', async () => {
+    expect((await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `/webview/${htmlCapability}/x` })).statusCode).toBe(401);
+    expect((await app.inject({ method: 'GET', url: `/html-view/${capability}/x.html` })).statusCode).toBe(401);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/webview-capability-revocation.test.ts b/test/webview-capability-revocation.test.ts
index 8be83f41..16135b98 100644
--- a/test/webview-capability-revocation.test.ts
+++ b/test/webview-capability-revocation.test.ts
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
  * exempt from cookie auth, with a rolling TTL refreshed on every use, so a leaked
  * proxy URL stayed valid indefinitely. These tests pin every call site:
  * `POST /api/logout` (own identity), the admin forced logout, and user deletion.
+ * The rendered-HTML capabilities (`htmlViewCapabilities`) are pinned at the same sites.
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
 import { WebviewCapabilityStore, webviewCapabilities } from '../src/webview-capabilities.js';
+import { HtmlViewCapabilityStore, htmlViewCapabilities } from '../src/html-view-capabilities.js';
 import { createRouteTestHarness, type RouteTestHarness } from './routes/_route-test-utils.js';
 import { registerSessionRoutes } from '../src/web/routes/session-routes.js';
 import { registerAdminRoutes } from '../src/web/routes/admin-routes.js';
@@ -40,6 +42,28 @@ describe('WebviewCapabilityStore.revokeOwner', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('HtmlViewCapabilityStore.revokeOwner', () => {
+  it('revokes exactly the identity asked for, the single-user `undefined` identity included', () => {
+    const store = new HtmlViewCapabilityStore();
+    const solo = store.mint('/srv/solo', undefined);
+    const alice = store.mint('/srv/alice', 'alice');
+    const bob = store.mint('/srv/bob', 'bob');
+
+    expect(store.revokeOwner('alice')).toBe(1);
+    expect(store.resolve(alice)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(store.resolve(bob)).toBeDefined();
+    expect(store.resolve(solo)).toBeDefined();
+
+    expect(store.revokeOwner(undefined)).toBe(1);
+    expect(store.resolve(solo)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(store.resolve(bob)).toBeDefined();
+
+    // Re-opening mints a NEW token rather than resurrecting the revoked one.
+    expect(store.mint('/srv/alice', 'alice')).not.toBe(alice);
+    store.dispose();
+  });
+});
+
 describe('POST /api/logout', () => {
   let harness: RouteTestHarness;
 
@@ -53,11 +77,14 @@ describe('POST /api/logout', () => {
 
   it('single-user: every outstanding capability dies with the login', async () => {
     const cap = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-logout-solo', undefined);
+    const page = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/logout-solo', undefined);
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(cap)).toBeDefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(page)).toBeDefined();
 
     const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'POST', url: '/api/logout' });
     expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(cap)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(page)).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
 
@@ -80,12 +107,17 @@ describe('POST /api/logout in multi-user mode', () => {
   it("revokes only the caller's capabilities, never another user's", async () => {
     const mine = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-peon-own', 'peon');
     const theirs = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-boss-own', 'boss');
+    const myPage = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/peon-own', 'peon');
+    const theirPage = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/boss-own', 'boss');
 
     const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'POST', url: '/api/logout' });
     expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(mine)).toBeUndefined();
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(theirs)).toBeDefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(myPage)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(theirPage)).toBeDefined();
     webviewCapabilities.revokeWebview('wv-boss-own');
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner('boss');
   });
 });
 
@@ -114,19 +146,26 @@ describe('admin routes (multi-user)', () => {
   it('a forced logout revokes the target user (normalised) and leaves the admin alone', async () => {
     const peon = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-peon-forced', 'peon');
     const boss = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-boss-forced', 'boss');
+    const peonPage = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/peon-forced', 'peon');
+    const bossPage = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/boss-forced', 'boss');
 
     const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'POST', url: '/api/admin/users/PEON/logout' });
     expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(peon)).toBeUndefined();
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(boss)).toBeDefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(peonPage)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(bossPage)).toBeDefined();
     webviewCapabilities.revokeWebview('wv-boss-forced');
+    htmlViewCapabilities.revokeOwner('boss');
   });
 
   it('deleting a user revokes whatever that user had open', async () => {
     const peon = webviewCapabilities.mint('wv-peon-deleted', 'peon');
+    const peonPage = htmlViewCapabilities.mint('/srv/peon-deleted', 'peon');
 
     const res = await harness.app.inject({ method: 'DELETE', url: '/api/admin/users/peon' });
     expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
     expect(webviewCapabilities.resolve(peon)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(htmlViewCapabilities.resolve(peonPage)).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });