1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/makima/frontend/src/components/NavStrip.tsx b/makima/frontend/src/components/NavStrip.tsx
index 17013ac..a6e483d 100644
--- a/makima/frontend/src/components/NavStrip.tsx
+++ b/makima/frontend/src/components/NavStrip.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { useAuth } from "../contexts/AuthContext";
 import { useSupervisorQuestions } from "../contexts/SupervisorQuestionsContext";
+import { useUserSettings } from "../hooks/useUserSettings";
 import { RewriteLink } from "./RewriteLink";
 
 interface NavLink {
@@ -7,14 +8,30 @@ interface NavLink {
   href: string;
   requiresAuth?: boolean;
   external?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * When true the link is hidden once the user has flipped on the
+   * document-mode UI — those areas (Exec, Contracts) are subsumed by the
+   * directive-document interface and surfacing them just creates noise.
+   */
+  hideInDocumentMode?: boolean;
 }
 
 const NAV_LINKS: NavLink[] = [
   { label: "Listen", href: "/listen" },
   { label: "Directives", href: "/directives", requiresAuth: true },
   { label: "Orders", href: "/orders", requiresAuth: true },
-  { label: "Contracts", href: "/contracts", requiresAuth: true },
-  { label: "Exec", href: "/exec", requiresAuth: true },
+  {
+    label: "Contracts",
+    href: "/contracts",
+    requiresAuth: true,
+    hideInDocumentMode: true,
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Exec",
+    href: "/exec",
+    requiresAuth: true,
+    hideInDocumentMode: true,
+  },
   { label: "Daemons", href: "/daemons", requiresAuth: true },
   { label: "History", href: "/history", requiresAuth: true },
 ];
@@ -22,6 +39,8 @@ const NAV_LINKS: NavLink[] = [
 export function NavStrip() {
   const { isAuthenticated, isAuthConfigured, signOut, user } = useAuth();
   const { pendingQuestions } = useSupervisorQuestions();
+  const { settings } = useUserSettings();
+  const documentMode = settings?.documentModeEnabled ?? false;
   const directiveQuestionCount = pendingQuestions.filter(q => q.directiveId).length;
 
   const handleSignOut = async () => {
@@ -41,7 +60,9 @@ export function NavStrip() {
         NAV//
       </span>
       <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 items-center flex-1">
-        {NAV_LINKS.map((link) => (
+        {NAV_LINKS.filter(
+          (link) => !(documentMode && link.hideInDocumentMode),
+        ).map((link) => (
           <span key={link.label} className="relative inline-flex items-center">
             <RewriteLink
               to={link.href}