diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/headscale/invites.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/headscale/invites.ts
index 4719974d..c3cb2b05 100644
--- a/src/servers/sidecar/headscale/invites.ts
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/headscale/invites.ts
@@ -95,13 +95,25 @@ async function relay(res: Response | string, wrap: (body: Record<string, unknown
   return Response.json(wrap(body));
 }
 
-/** `POST /_officer/enroll/invites` — mint an invite. The response carries the link, and only this once. */
+/**
+ * `POST /_officer/enroll/invites` — mint an invite. The response carries the link, and only this once.
+ *
+ * `url` is an ordinary HTTPS link to a page on the server's own domain, which bounces into the app; the
+ * companion also returns `deepLink`, the `officer-offscale://` scheme that page redirects to. That one is
+ * dropped here rather than passed on: it carries the same claim token in its fragment, and a second copy of
+ * a single-use credential in the browser is a second chance to leak it. Nothing on our side opens it.
+ */
 async function create(creds: HeadscaleServerCredentials, ctx: OfficerContext): Promise<Response> {
   const input = parseCreate(await readJson(ctx.req));
   if (input instanceof Response) return input;
 
   const res = await callCompanion(creds, { path: INVITES_PATH, method: 'POST', body: input });
-  return relay(res, (body) => ({ available: true, invite: body.invite ?? body }));
+  return relay(res, (body) => {
+    const raw = body.invite ?? body;
+    const invite = raw && typeof raw === 'object' ? (raw as Record<string, unknown>) : {};
+    const { deepLink: _deepLink, ...rest } = invite;
+    return { available: true, invite: rest };
+  });
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Headscale/InvitesView.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Headscale/InvitesView.tsx
index 1bdf9e9a..811c13a6 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Headscale/InvitesView.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Headscale/InvitesView.tsx
@@ -80,13 +80,12 @@ type InviteLinkPanelProps = { invite: HeadscaleInviteCreated; onDismiss: () => v
 const InviteLinkPanel = ({ invite, onDismiss }: InviteLinkPanelProps) => {
   const [showQr, setShowQr] = useState(true);
 
-  // The link goes in `text`, not `url`: it is a custom scheme (`officer-offscale://join#…`) and several
-  // share-sheet implementations only accept http(s) in the url field, rejecting the whole call. As text it
-  // is passed through verbatim by every messenger. A cancelled sheet rejects too — nothing to report there,
-  // the link is still on screen.
+  // Plain https now — the link lands on a page the companion serves, which bounces into the app. It goes in
+  // `url` rather than `text` so share targets treat it as a link and preserve the fragment. A cancelled sheet
+  // rejects — nothing to report there, the link is still on screen.
   const share = () => {
     void navigator
-      .share?.({ title: 'Join the tailnet', text: `Tap to join as ${invite.user}: ${invite.url}` })
+      .share?.({ title: 'Join the tailnet', text: `Tap to join as ${invite.user}`, url: invite.url })
       .catch(() => {});
   };