diff --git a/src/databases/officer_db/src/index.ts b/src/databases/officer_db/src/index.ts
index 953bc9b5..91675066 100644
--- a/src/databases/officer_db/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/databases/officer_db/src/index.ts
@@ -85,6 +85,19 @@ export {
   pruneChatEventsOlderThan,
 } from './queries/chat-events';
 
+export {
+  listAgentPanels,
+  getAgentPanelByPanelId,
+  getAgentPanelByName,
+  getAgentPanelByHandoffToken,
+  createAgentPanel,
+  updateAgentPanel,
+  markAgentPanelIntroduced,
+  deleteAgentPanel,
+  toAgentPanelView,
+} from './queries/agent-panels';
+export type { AgentPanel, AgentPanelView, CreateAgentPanelInput, UpdateAgentPanelInput } from './queries/agent-panels';
+
 export {
   getMusicFavorites,
   addMusicFavorite,
diff --git a/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/agent-panels.ts b/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/agent-panels.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db018c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/agent-panels.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
+import { and, asc, eq } from 'drizzle-orm';
+import { db } from '../db';
+import { agentPanels } from '../schema';
+import type { AgentPanelRow } from '../schema/agent-panels';
+
+export type AgentPanel = AgentPanelRow;
+
+/** What the browser is allowed to see. The handoff token is a bearer credential and never crosses. */
+export type AgentPanelView = Omit<AgentPanel, 'handoffToken' | 'userId'>;
+
+export const toAgentPanelView = ({ handoffToken: _t, userId: _u, ...rest }: AgentPanel): AgentPanelView => rest;
+
+/** Every agent on one dashboard, in creation order — this is the address book. */
+export function listAgentPanels(userId: number, dashboardId: string): Promise<AgentPanel[]> {
+  return db
+    .select()
+    .from(agentPanels)
+    .where(and(eq(agentPanels.userId, userId), eq(agentPanels.dashboardId, dashboardId)))
+    .orderBy(asc(agentPanels.id));
+}
+
+export async function getAgentPanelByPanelId(
+  userId: number,
+  dashboardId: string,
+  panelId: string,
+): Promise<AgentPanel | undefined> {
+  const [row] = await db
+    .select()
+    .from(agentPanels)
+    .where(
+      and(eq(agentPanels.userId, userId), eq(agentPanels.dashboardId, dashboardId), eq(agentPanels.panelId, panelId)),
+    )
+    .limit(1);
+  return row;
+}
+
+/** Resolve an address. The whole point of the table. */
+export async function getAgentPanelByName(
+  userId: number,
+  dashboardId: string,
+  name: string,
+): Promise<AgentPanel | undefined> {
+  const [row] = await db
+    .select()
+    .from(agentPanels)
+    .where(and(eq(agentPanels.userId, userId), eq(agentPanels.dashboardId, dashboardId), eq(agentPanels.name, name)))
+    .limit(1);
+  return row;
+}
+
+/** The sender's identity, established by the bearer token alone — see the schema comment. */
+export async function getAgentPanelByHandoffToken(token: string): Promise<AgentPanel | undefined> {
+  const [row] = await db.select().from(agentPanels).where(eq(agentPanels.handoffToken, token)).limit(1);
+  return row;
+}
+
+export type CreateAgentPanelInput = {
+  userId: number;
+  dashboardId: string;
+  panelId: string;
+  name: string;
+  cwd?: string | null;
+  rolePrompt?: string | null;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Mint an agent. The sessionKey is generated here and only here: it is the one identifier that must
+ * never change for the life of the panel, because the sidecar's on-disk resume map and the durable
+ * event log are both keyed on it.
+ */
+export async function createAgentPanel(input: CreateAgentPanelInput): Promise<AgentPanel> {
+  const [row] = await db
+    .insert(agentPanels)
+    .values({
+      userId: input.userId,
+      dashboardId: input.dashboardId,
+      panelId: input.panelId,
+      name: input.name,
+      sessionKey: randomUUID(),
+      handoffToken: randomUUID(),
+      cwd: input.cwd ?? null,
+      rolePrompt: input.rolePrompt ?? null,
+    })
+    .returning();
+  return row!;
+}
+
+export type UpdateAgentPanelInput = {
+  name?: string;
+  cwd?: string | null;
+  rolePrompt?: string | null;
+  panelId?: string;
+};
+
+/** Rename, re-home or re-scope an agent. `sessionKey` is intentionally not updatable. */
+export async function updateAgentPanel(
+  userId: number,
+  id: number,
+  patch: UpdateAgentPanelInput,
+): Promise<AgentPanel | undefined> {
+  const [row] = await db
+    .update(agentPanels)
+    .set({ ...patch, updatedAt: new Date() })
+    .where(and(eq(agentPanels.userId, userId), eq(agentPanels.id, id)))
+    .returning();
+  return row;
+}
+
+/** Stamp the introduction as sent, so a reload cannot re-introduce an agent to itself. */
+export async function markAgentPanelIntroduced(id: number): Promise<void> {
+  await db.update(agentPanels).set({ introducedAt: new Date() }).where(eq(agentPanels.id, id));
+}
+
+export async function deleteAgentPanel(userId: number, id: number): Promise<void> {
+  await db.delete(agentPanels).where(and(eq(agentPanels.userId, userId), eq(agentPanels.id, id)));
+}
diff --git a/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/agent-panels.ts b/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/agent-panels.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..321e3846
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/agent-panels.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import { pgTable, serial, text, integer, timestamp, uniqueIndex, index } from 'drizzle-orm/pg-core';
+import { users } from './auth';
+
+/**
+ * One named agent living in one dashboard panel — the address book that lets two chat panels on the
+ * same page hand work to each other instead of routing every step through the human.
+ *
+ * See `docs/agent-coordination.md` for why this exists at all. The three columns that carry the design:
+ *
+ *   `name`         the ADDRESS. Human-assigned at dashboard setup ("frontend", "backend", "reviewer")
+ *                  and unique within a dashboard. Deliberately not the panel id: `movePanel` mints a
+ *                  fresh panel id when a panel is dragged, so an id-based address would break the first
+ *                  time the owner rearranged the layout. A name survives that; it is also what the
+ *                  agents themselves use in a prompt, which nothing else here can claim.
+ *
+ *   `sessionKey`   the CONTINUITY. Minted once, here, and never again — where the chat UI has always
+ *                  let the server mint a throwaway uuid per connection (`websocket.ts` does
+ *                  `msg.sessionId || randomUUID()`), a panel hands the same key back on every load.
+ *                  That is what makes an agent addressable across a reload, an officer restart and a
+ *                  night with no browser open: the claude sidecar keeps a write-through
+ *                  `sessionKey → claudeSessionId` map on disk, so a reaped session resumes its own
+ *                  transcript on the next turn, and `chat_session_events` replays under the same key.
+ *                  No heartbeat, no held process. Idle costs nothing.
+ *
+ *   `handoffToken` the DOOR. A bearer token the agent presents to `POST /agent-handoff` to deliver a
+ *                  message to a peer. It authenticates the SENDER — which is why no `from` field is
+ *                  needed on the wire and why an agent cannot forge one. Its authority is deliberately
+ *                  tiny: deliver a prompt to a named peer *in the same dashboard*, nothing else. It
+ *                  cannot read, cannot create panels, and cannot name a raw sessionKey.
+ *
+ * `rolePrompt` is the introduction sent as the session's first turn ("you are the front-end developer;
+ * your peers are …"). Roles are prompts, not features — there is no role registry and there is not
+ * going to be one.
+ */
+export const agentPanels = pgTable(
+  'agent_panels',
+  {
+    id: serial('id').primaryKey(),
+    userId: integer('user_id')
+      .notNull()
+      .references(() => users.id, { onDelete: 'cascade' }),
+    /** Dashboard slug as the frontend knows it. No FK: `dashboards.id` is a global PK today and is
+     *  being reworked to a composite (see docs/workspace-panel-todo.md §3); coupling to it now would
+     *  make that change harder for no benefit here. */
+    dashboardId: text('dashboard_id').notNull(),
+    /** Where this agent currently lives. Bookkeeping for the UI, NOT the address — see `name`. */
+    panelId: text('panel_id').notNull(),
+    name: text('name').notNull(),
+    sessionKey: text('session_key').notNull(),
+    handoffToken: text('handoff_token').notNull(),
+    /** Home-relative working directory for this agent's session, or null for the owner's home. */
+    cwd: text('cwd'),
+    /** Sent as the first turn when the session is created. Null once it has been sent. */
+    rolePrompt: text('role_prompt'),
+    /** Null until the introduction turn has actually been delivered, so a reload cannot re-send it. */
+    introducedAt: timestamp('introduced_at', { withTimezone: true }),
+    createdAt: timestamp('created_at', { withTimezone: true }).notNull().defaultNow(),
+    updatedAt: timestamp('updated_at', { withTimezone: true }).notNull().defaultNow(),
+  },
+  (table) => [
+    // The address must resolve to exactly one agent, or a handoff is ambiguous.
+    uniqueIndex('uq_agent_panels_address').on(table.userId, table.dashboardId, table.name),
+    // One agent per panel, so a panel cannot end up with two sessions behind it.
+    uniqueIndex('uq_agent_panels_panel').on(table.userId, table.dashboardId, table.panelId),
+    uniqueIndex('uq_agent_panels_session_key').on(table.sessionKey),
+    uniqueIndex('uq_agent_panels_handoff_token').on(table.handoffToken),
+    index('idx_agent_panels_dashboard').on(table.userId, table.dashboardId),
+  ],
+);
+
+export type AgentPanelRow = typeof agentPanels.$inferSelect;
diff --git a/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/index.ts b/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/index.ts
index fb62b3b7..876a580e 100644
--- a/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/index.ts
+++ b/src/databases/officer_db/src/schema/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+export * from './agent-panels';
 export * from './auth';
 export * from './capabilities';
 export * from './chat-events';
diff --git a/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/deliver.ts b/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/deliver.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db014db8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/deliver.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+import { getUserById, markAgentPanelIntroduced, type AgentPanel } from 'officerdb';
+import * as sidecar from '@@/sidecar-registry';
+import { resolveBaseCwd } from '../chat/websocket';
+import { logger } from '../chat/logger';
+
+/**
+ * Push a turn into an agent panel's session — with or without a browser attached.
+ *
+ * This is the whole delivery mechanism, and it is four lines because the hard parts already existed:
+ *
+ *   - `spawnClaudeStreaming` on an EXISTING sessionKey adopts the live session and queues the prompt
+ *     (`claude/claude-manager.ts:379-391`). On a reaped one it re-creates the session and resumes the
+ *     same Claude transcript from the sidecar's write-through `sessionKey → claudeSessionId` map
+ *     (`claude-manager.ts:258`). So we never have to know, or care, whether the target is warm.
+ *   - the sidecar commits the resulting output to `chat_session_events` itself, keyed by sessionKey
+ *     (`claude/session-log.ts`, `durable` defaults to true). A browser that opens the dashboard later
+ *     replays it from its cursor via `resume-cursor`.
+ *
+ * Which is why no browser needs to be open, and why nothing here subscribes to the output: the point
+ * of the durable log is that officer is not on the delivery path.
+ *
+ * NOT awaited to completion — `spawnClaudeStreaming` resolves when the turn has been *accepted*, not
+ * when it finishes (`sidecar/user-instance.ts:169` acks before doing the work). A handoff is fire-and-
+ * observe: the sender learns nothing about the outcome except by being told in turn.
+ */
+export async function deliverToAgentPanel(target: AgentPanel, prompt: string): Promise<void> {
+  const user = await getUserById(target.userId);
+  if (!user) throw new Error(`agent panel ${target.id} belongs to a user that no longer exists`);
+
+  await sidecar.spawnClaudeStreaming({
+    userId: user.id,
+    email: user.email,
+    username: user.name ?? user.email,
+    prompt,
+    sessionKey: target.sessionKey,
+    cwd: resolveBaseCwd(user.email, target.cwd ?? undefined),
+    // Deliberately no `model`: a live session ignores it anyway, and a resumed one keeps whatever the
+    // panel started with. Passing one here would only look like it worked.
+    durable: true,
+  });
+
+  logger.info('Delivered a turn to an agent panel', {
+    dashboardId: target.dashboardId,
+    to: target.name,
+    sessionKey: target.sessionKey,
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * The envelope. The receiving agent is a language model reading its own conversation, so the sender
+ * has to be *in the text* — there is no out-of-band "from" header it could see. Fenced so a message
+ * containing its own markdown cannot be mistaken for the frame around it.
+ */
+export function composeHandoff(fromName: string, message: string): string {
+  return [
+    `[handoff from \`${fromName}\`]`,
+    '',
+    message.trim(),
+    '',
+    `---`,
+    `That message came from another agent on this dashboard, not from the human. Reply to it by doing`,
+    `the work, and hand back when you are done.`,
+  ].join('\n');
+}
+
+/** Send the role prompt as the session's very first turn, once. Roles are prompts, not features. */
+export async function introduceAgentPanel(panel: AgentPanel, peers: AgentPanel[], apiOrigin: string): Promise<void> {
+  if (panel.introducedAt) return;
+  const prompt = composeIntroduction(panel, peers, apiOrigin);
+  await deliverToAgentPanel(panel, prompt);
+  await markAgentPanelIntroduced(panel.id);
+}
+
+/**
+ * What an agent is told about the world it lives in, verbatim, at creation.
+ *
+ * The handoff token is inlined into a runnable curl. That is a bearer credential sitting in a
+ * transcript, and it is a deliberate trade for this MVP on a single-owner machine: its authority is
+ * "deliver a prompt to a named peer on this one dashboard" and nothing else. Revisit before this
+ * platform has a second human on it — see docs/agent-coordination.md.
+ */
+export function composeIntroduction(panel: AgentPanel, peers: AgentPanel[], apiOrigin: string): string {
+  const others = peers.filter((p) => p.id !== panel.id);
+  const peerList = others.length
+    ? others.map((p) => `  - \`${p.name}\`${p.cwd ? ` (working in ${p.cwd})` : ''}`).join('\n')
+    : '  (none yet — the human may add more panels to this dashboard later)';
+
+  return [
+    `You are \`${panel.name}\`, one of several agents working together on the dashboard`,
+    `\`${panel.dashboardId}\`. Each of us is a separate Claude session in its own panel, on the same`,
+    `page, with our own working directory and our own transcript.`,
+    '',
+    ...(panel.rolePrompt?.trim() ? [`Your role, as the human described it:`, '', panel.rolePrompt.trim(), ''] : []),
+    `The other agents on this dashboard:`,
+    peerList,
+    '',
+    `## Handing work to another agent`,
+    '',
+    `When you finish something a peer needs to act on, tell them. Run:`,
+    '',
+    '```bash',
+    `curl -sS -X POST ${apiOrigin}/api/agent-handoff \\`,
+    `  -H 'content-type: application/json' \\`,
+    `  -H 'x-officer-agent-token: ${panel.handoffToken}' \\`,
+    `  -d "$(jq -n --arg to 'PEER_NAME' --arg message "$(cat HANDOFF.md)" '{to:$to, message:$message}')"`,
+    '```',
+    '',
+    `Replace \`PEER_NAME\` with a name from the list above. The message is delivered to that agent as a`,
+    `turn in their own session, labelled as coming from you. For anything longer than a sentence, write`,
+    `it to a file first and pass the file as above — that is what the human expects to be able to read`,
+    `afterwards.`,
+    '',
+    `To see who is currently on this dashboard:`,
+    '',
+    '```bash',
+    `curl -sS ${apiOrigin}/api/agent-handoff/peers -H 'x-officer-agent-token: ${panel.handoffToken}'`,
+    '```',
+    '',
+    `An unknown name is an error, not a silent no-op: the response tells you which names exist.`,
+    '',
+    `## What to expect back`,
+    '',
+    `A message from a peer arrives as a new turn in this conversation, prefixed \`[handoff from ...]\`.`,
+    `It may arrive minutes or hours later, and the human may not be watching when it does. Treat it as`,
+    `a real instruction and continue working; do not wait for the human to confirm it.`,
+    '',
+    `Acknowledge this message briefly and then wait.`,
+  ].join('\n');
+}
diff --git a/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/router.ts b/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/router.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f4bd37e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/api/agent-handoff/router.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import { Hono } from 'hono';
+import { getAgentPanelByHandoffToken, getAgentPanelByName, listAgentPanels, type AgentPanel } from 'officerdb';
+import { composeHandoff, deliverToAgentPanel } from './deliver';
+import { logger } from '../chat/logger';
+
+/**
+ * The door an AGENT knocks on — not a human, and not a browser.
+ *
+ * This is mounted above the account gate, so it does not carry a platform JWT and does not go through
+ * `userMiddleware`. That exemption is declared and justified in `capabilities/totality.ts`; the claim
+ * it makes is that this surface is authenticated by a per-panel bearer token instead, and that the
+ * token's authority is tiny by construction:
+ *
+ *   - it identifies exactly one agent panel, so the SENDER cannot be forged and needs no `from` field
+ *   - it can address only peers in that panel's own dashboard, by name
+ *   - it can do one thing: deliver a prompt. No reads of anything else, no writes, no session keys.
+ *
+ * Deliberately its own router rather than a route inside `/chat`: the two have different callers,
+ * different credentials and different blast radii, and folding one into the other would have hidden
+ * that. See docs/agent-coordination.md.
+ *
+ * Note this is a bare `Hono` and not `createRouter()` — createRouter's helpers assume the `user` and
+ * `body` context values that `userMiddleware`/`bodyParser` set, and neither runs here.
+ */
+export const agentHandoffRouter = new Hono();
+
+const TOKEN_HEADER = 'x-officer-agent-token';
+
+async function senderFrom(header: string | undefined): Promise<AgentPanel | undefined> {
+  const token = header?.trim();
+  if (!token) return undefined;
+  return getAgentPanelByHandoffToken(token);
+}
+
+/** Errors here are read by a language model, so they say what to do instead of just what went wrong. */
+const plain = (text: string, status: 400 | 401 | 404 | 500) => new Response(`${text}\n`, { status });
+
+// GET /agent-handoff/peers — who else is on my dashboard. Discovery, so a wrong name is recoverable.
+agentHandoffRouter.get('/peers', async (ctx) => {
+  const sender = await senderFrom(ctx.req.header(TOKEN_HEADER));
+  if (!sender) return plain(`Unknown or missing ${TOKEN_HEADER}.`, 401);
+
+  const peers = await listAgentPanels(sender.userId, sender.dashboardId);
+  return ctx.json({
+    you: sender.name,
+    dashboardId: sender.dashboardId,
+    peers: peers.filter((p) => p.id !== sender.id).map((p) => ({ name: p.name, cwd: p.cwd, role: p.rolePrompt })),
+  });
+});
+
+// POST /agent-handoff — deliver a message to a named peer as a turn in their own session.
+agentHandoffRouter.post('/', async (ctx) => {
+  const sender = await senderFrom(ctx.req.header(TOKEN_HEADER));
+  if (!sender) return plain(`Unknown or missing ${TOKEN_HEADER}.`, 401);
+
+  let body: { to?: unknown; message?: unknown };
+  try {
+    body = await ctx.req.json();
+  } catch {
+    return plain('Body must be JSON: {"to": "<peer name>", "message": "<text>"}', 400);
+  }
+
+  const to = typeof body.to === 'string' ? body.to.trim() : '';
+  const message = typeof body.message === 'string' ? body.message.trim() : '';
+  if (!to) return plain('Missing "to". It is the name of a peer on your dashboard.', 400);
+  if (!message) return plain('Missing "message". An empty handoff would tell the other agent nothing.', 400);
+
+  if (to === sender.name) return plain(`You are \`${sender.name}\`. An agent cannot hand off to itself.`, 400);
+
+  const target = await getAgentPanelByName(sender.userId, sender.dashboardId, to);
+  if (!target) {
+    // Loud, and useful: a typo is the likeliest cause and the fix is in the error.
+    const peers = await listAgentPanels(sender.userId, sender.dashboardId);
+    const names = peers
+      .filter((p) => p.id !== sender.id)
+      .map((p) => `\`${p.name}\``)
+      .join(', ');
+    return plain(
+      `No agent named \`${to}\` on dashboard \`${sender.dashboardId}\`.\n` +
+        (names ? `Known peers: ${names}` : 'There are no other agents on this dashboard yet.'),
+      404,
+    );
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await deliverToAgentPanel(target, composeHandoff(sender.name, message));
+  } catch (err) {
+    const detail = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+    logger.error('Handoff delivery failed', { from: sender.name, to: target.name, error: detail });
+    // Never swallow this. A handoff that silently vanished is the exact failure this whole mechanism
+    // exists to avoid — the sender would sit waiting for a reply that was never going to come.
+    return plain(`Could not deliver to \`${target.name}\`: ${detail}`, 500);
+  }
+
+  return ctx.json({ delivered: true, from: sender.name, to: target.name });
+});
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/agent-panels-routes.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/agent-panels-routes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c96673b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/agent-panels-routes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import type { Hono } from 'hono';
+import {
+  createAgentPanel,
+  deleteAgentPanel,
+  getAgentPanelByPanelId,
+  listAgentPanels,
+  toAgentPanelView,
+  updateAgentPanel,
+} from 'officerdb';
+import { introduceAgentPanel } from '../agent-handoff/deliver';
+import { logger } from './logger';
+
+/**
+ * The browser's half of the address book: name a panel, look up what a panel is, rename, remove.
+ *
+ * Mounted on the chat router rather than given its own prefix, because it is the same capability —
+ * these routes create and name Claude sessions, which is what `chat` already grants. A new top-level
+ * mount would have meant a new capability entry claiming the same authority under a second name.
+ *
+ * The agent-facing door is separate and deliberately so: `servers/api/agent-handoff/router.ts`.
+ */
+
+/** A name has to survive being typed into a prompt and into a shell, so keep it boring. */
+const NAME_RE = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,30}[a-z0-9]$|^[a-z0-9]$/;
+
+const API_ORIGIN = `http://127.0.0.1:${process.env.PORT ?? '5000'}`;
+
+export function registerAgentPanelRoutes(router: Hono<any>): void {
+  // GET /chat/agent-panels?dashboardId=… — the address book for one dashboard.
+  router.get('/agent-panels', async (ctx) => {
+    const user = ctx.get('user');
+    const dashboardId = ctx.req.query('dashboardId')?.trim();
+    if (!dashboardId) return ctx.text('dashboardId is required', 400);
+    const panels = await listAgentPanels(user.id, dashboardId);
+    return ctx.json({ agents: panels.map(toAgentPanelView) });
+  });
+
+  // POST /chat/agent-panels — name a panel, minting its permanent sessionKey.
+  //
+  // Idempotent on (dashboardId, panelId): a double-submit or a remount returns the existing agent
+  // rather than a second one. It has to be — the sessionKey is the panel's whole continuity, and
+  // minting a second one would abandon the first session with no way back to it.
+  router.post('/agent-panels', async (ctx) => {
+    const user = ctx.get('user');
+    const body = (ctx.get('body') ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
+
+    const dashboardId = typeof body.dashboardId === 'string' ? body.dashboardId.trim() : '';
+    const panelId = typeof body.panelId === 'string' ? body.panelId.trim() : '';
+    const name = typeof body.name === 'string' ? body.name.trim().toLowerCase() : '';
+    const cwd = typeof body.cwd === 'string' && body.cwd.trim() ? body.cwd.trim() : null;
+    const rolePrompt = typeof body.rolePrompt === 'string' && body.rolePrompt.trim() ? body.rolePrompt.trim() : null;
+
+    if (!dashboardId || !panelId) return ctx.text('dashboardId and panelId are required', 400);
+    if (!NAME_RE.test(name)) {
+      return ctx.text('Name must be lowercase letters, digits and dashes — e.g. "frontend", "code-reviewer"', 400);
+    }
+
+    const existing = await getAgentPanelByPanelId(user.id, dashboardId, panelId);
+    if (existing) return ctx.json({ agent: toAgentPanelView(existing), created: false });
+
+    let created;
+    try {
+      created = await createAgentPanel({ userId: user.id, dashboardId, panelId, name, cwd, rolePrompt });
+    } catch (err) {
+      // uq_agent_panels_address — the address must resolve to one agent or a handoff is ambiguous.
+      if (String(err).includes('uq_agent_panels_address')) {
+        return ctx.text(`There is already an agent named "${name}" on this dashboard`, 409);
+      }
+      throw err;
+    }
+
+    // The introduction is the session's first turn: it is how the agent learns its own name, its peers
+    // and the command it uses to reach them. Fire-and-forget on purpose — the panel should render
+    // immediately, and if this fails the agent is still addressable, just uninformed. Logged, not
+    // swallowed, so "it never introduced itself" is diagnosable.
+    void listAgentPanels(user.id, dashboardId)
+      .then((peers) => introduceAgentPanel(created, peers, API_ORIGIN))
+      .catch((err) => logger.error('Failed to introduce agent panel', { name, dashboardId, error: String(err) }));
+
+    return ctx.json({ agent: toAgentPanelView(created), created: true });
+  });
+
+  // PATCH /chat/agent-panels/:id — rename, re-scope, or record that the panel moved.
+  router.patch('/agent-panels/:id', async (ctx) => {
+    const user = ctx.get('user');
+    const id = Number(ctx.req.param('id'));
+    if (!Number.isFinite(id)) return ctx.text('Bad id', 400);
+    const body = (ctx.get('body') ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
+
+    const patch: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+    if (typeof body.name === 'string') {
+      const name = body.name.trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (!NAME_RE.test(name)) return ctx.text('Name must be lowercase letters, digits and dashes', 400);
+      patch.name = name;
+    }
+    if ('cwd' in body) patch.cwd = typeof body.cwd === 'string' && body.cwd.trim() ? body.cwd.trim() : null;
+    if ('rolePrompt' in body) patch.rolePrompt = typeof body.rolePrompt === 'string' ? body.rolePrompt : null;
+    if (typeof body.panelId === 'string' && body.panelId.trim()) patch.panelId = body.panelId.trim();
+
+    const updated = await updateAgentPanel(user.id, id, patch);
+    if (!updated) return ctx.text('No such agent', 404);
+    return ctx.json({ agent: toAgentPanelView(updated) });
+  });
+
+  // DELETE /chat/agent-panels/:id — forget the agent. The Claude transcript is NOT deleted: it lives
+  // in ~/.claude/projects and is readable from /chat like any other conversation. Only the address
+  // and the panel's claim on that session go away.
+  router.delete('/agent-panels/:id', async (ctx) => {
+    const user = ctx.get('user');
+    const id = Number(ctx.req.param('id'));
+    if (!Number.isFinite(id)) return ctx.text('Bad id', 400);
+    await deleteAgentPanel(user.id, id);
+    return ctx.json({ ok: true });
+  });
+}
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
index 664f5be5..cd8f4dcc 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { listChatModels } from './list-models';
 import { logger } from './logger';
 import { readSttConfig } from '../server-settings/stt';
 import { transcribeAudio } from '../stt/transcribe';
+import { registerAgentPanelRoutes } from './agent-panels-routes';
 
 export const chatRouter = createRouter();
 
@@ -165,3 +166,8 @@ chatRouter.post('/stt', async (ctx: Context) => {
     return ctx.json({ error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'Failed to reach Whisper server' }, 502);
   }
 });
+
+// The agent address book — naming a chat panel so other agents on the same dashboard can reach it.
+// Lives on this router because it is the same authority `chat` already grants: creating and naming
+// Claude sessions. See servers/api/chat/agent-panels-routes.ts and docs/agent-coordination.md.
+registerAgentPanelRoutes(chatRouter);
diff --git a/src/servers/capabilities/totality.ts b/src/servers/capabilities/totality.ts
index b38fc281..cd82984c 100644
--- a/src/servers/capabilities/totality.ts
+++ b/src/servers/capabilities/totality.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ const EXEMPT_API_PREFIXES: Record<string, string> = {
   '/vault': 'Bitwarden protocol clients authenticate to Vaultwarden, not to Officer',
   // Registration socket for sidecars. Process-to-process on loopback; there is no user on this path.
   '/sidecar': 'sidecar registration, loopback process-to-process',
+  // The caller is a Claude session running curl, not a browser: it has no platform JWT to present, so
+  // userMiddleware would 401 it and a capability lookup would have no account to resolve. What it does
+  // present is a per-panel token minted by the platform, which identifies exactly one agent panel and
+  // authorises exactly one action — deliver a prompt to a NAMED PEER ON THAT PANEL'S OWN DASHBOARD.
+  // It reads nothing else, writes nothing else, and cannot name a raw session key. The narrowness is
+  // the whole justification: this is not a general API door with a second credential, it is one verb.
+  '/agent-handoff': 'agent-to-agent handoff; a per-panel bearer token authorising one verb, not a platform JWT',
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/servers/hono.ts b/src/servers/hono.ts
index 6bc3f8f0..713591db 100644
--- a/src/servers/hono.ts
+++ b/src/servers/hono.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { taskLogsRouter } from './api/task-logs/task-logs';
 import { router as fileBrowserRouter } from './api/file-browser/router';
 import { musicRouter } from './api/music/router';
 import { vaultRouter } from './api/vault/router';
+import { agentHandoffRouter } from './api/agent-handoff/router';
 import { slskdRouter } from './api/slskd/router';
 import { headscaleRouter } from './api/headscale/router';
 import { transmissionRouter } from './api/transmission/router';
@@ -103,6 +104,13 @@ honoServer.route('/api/waitlist', waitlistRouter);
 honoServer.route('/api/vault', vaultRouter);
 honoServer.get('/api/integrations/google/callback', googleCallbackHandler);
 
+// Agent-to-agent handoff — mounted TOP-LEVEL for the same reason the vault is: the caller is a Claude
+// session running a curl, and it carries a per-panel bearer token rather than a platform session JWT,
+// so userMiddleware would 401 it and a capability lookup would have no account to resolve. The token
+// identifies exactly one agent panel and authorises exactly one action: deliver a prompt to a named
+// peer on that panel's own dashboard. See servers/api/agent-handoff/router.ts.
+honoServer.route('/api/agent-handoff', agentHandoffRouter);
+
 // CalDAV/CardDAV for phones and desktop clients — mounted TOP-LEVEL for the same reason the vault is:
 // DAVx5, iOS and Thunderbird authenticate with HTTP Basic on every request and have nowhere to put a
 // platform JWT, so userMiddleware would 401 them. The credential is a scoped DAV app password; see
@@ -209,7 +217,14 @@ export const PROTECTED_API_PREFIXES: string[] = PROTECTED_MOUNTS.map(([prefix])
  * Mounted above the account gate, and so exempt from capability checks — see EXEMPT_API_PREFIXES in
  * capabilities/totality.ts, which has to justify each one.
  */
-export const UNPROTECTED_API_PREFIXES: string[] = ['/auth', '/landing-page-data', '/waitlist', '/vault', '/sidecar'];
+export const UNPROTECTED_API_PREFIXES: string[] = [
+  '/auth',
+  '/landing-page-data',
+  '/waitlist',
+  '/vault',
+  '/sidecar',
+  '/agent-handoff',
+];
 
 honoServer.route('/api', protectedRouter);