diff --git a/personal-site/src/app/page.tsx b/personal-site/src/app/page.tsx
index 022fe1d..baa3c5e 100644
--- a/personal-site/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/personal-site/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import Link from 'next/link'
 import { Button } from '@/components/Button'
 import { Card } from '@/components/Card'
 import { Container } from '@/components/Container'
+import { ProjectOutboundLinks } from '@/components/ProjectOutboundLinks'
 import {
   GitHubIcon,
   LinkedInIcon,
@@ -120,21 +121,14 @@ function FeaturedProjectCard({ project }: { project: FeaturedProject }) {
   return (
     <Card as="article">
       <Card.Eyebrow decorate>Project</Card.Eyebrow>
-      <Card.Title href={project.href}>{project.name}</Card.Title>
+      <Card.Title as="h3">{project.name}</Card.Title>
       <Card.Description>{project.description}</Card.Description>
-      <div className="relative z-10 mt-4 flex flex-col gap-2 text-sm">
-        <p className="text-zinc-500 dark:text-zinc-400">{project.label}</p>
-        {project.extraLink ? (
-          <Link
-            href={project.extraLink.href}
-            target="_blank"
-            rel="noopener noreferrer"
-            className="inline-flex w-fit font-medium text-teal-600 underline decoration-teal-500/30 underline-offset-2 hover:text-teal-700 dark:text-teal-400 dark:hover:text-teal-300"
-          >
-            {project.extraLink.label}
-          </Link>
-        ) : null}
-      </div>
+      <ProjectOutboundLinks
+        github={project.github}
+        npm={project.npm}
+        live={project.live}
+        className="mt-4"
+      />
     </Card>
   )
 }
@@ -330,10 +324,11 @@ export default async function Home() {
             Featured projects
           </h2>
           <p className="mt-2 text-sm text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400">
-            ClawQL, CoachellaPlus, and gRPC MCP Transport.
+            MCP stack, libraries, gateways, and product PWAs — use the icons for
+            GitHub, npm, or the live site when each exists.
           </p>
         </div>
-        <div className="mx-auto mt-10 grid max-w-2xl grid-cols-1 gap-8 lg:mx-0 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3">
+        <div className="mx-auto mt-10 grid max-w-2xl grid-cols-1 gap-8 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:mx-0 lg:max-w-none xl:grid-cols-3">
           {featuredProjects.map((project) => (
             <FeaturedProjectCard key={project.name} project={project} />
           ))}
diff --git a/personal-site/src/app/projects/page.tsx b/personal-site/src/app/projects/page.tsx
index bb7d041..5a183c3 100644
--- a/personal-site/src/app/projects/page.tsx
+++ b/personal-site/src/app/projects/page.tsx
@@ -1,21 +1,10 @@
 import { type Metadata } from 'next'
 
 import { Card } from '@/components/Card'
+import { ProjectOutboundLinks } from '@/components/ProjectOutboundLinks'
 import { SimpleLayout } from '@/components/SimpleLayout'
-import { GitHubIcon } from '@/components/SocialIcons'
 import { featuredRepos } from '@/lib/site'
 
-function LinkIcon(props: React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'svg'>) {
-  return (
-    <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" {...props}>
-      <path
-        d="M15.712 11.823a.75.75 0 1 0 1.06 1.06l-1.06-1.06Zm-4.95 1.768a.75.75 0 0 0 1.06-1.06l-1.06 1.06Zm-2.475-1.414a.75.75 0 1 0-1.06-1.06l1.06 1.06Zm4.95-1.768a.75.75 0 1 0-1.06 1.06l1.06-1.06Zm3.359.53-.884.884 1.06 1.06.885-.883-1.061-1.06Zm-4.95-2.12 1.414-1.415L12 6.344l-1.415 1.413 1.061 1.061Zm0 3.535a2.5 2.5 0 0 1 0-3.536l-1.06-1.06a4 4 0 0 0 0 5.656l1.06-1.06Zm4.95-4.95a2.5 2.5 0 0 1 0 3.535L17.656 12a4 4 0 0 0 0-5.657l-1.06 1.06Zm1.06-1.06a4 4 0 0 0-5.656 0l1.06 1.06a2.5 2.5 0 0 1 3.536 0l1.06-1.06Zm-7.07 7.07.176.177 1.06-1.06-.176-.177-1.06 1.06Zm-3.183-.353.884-.884-1.06-1.06-.884.883 1.06 1.06Zm4.95 2.121-1.414 1.414 1.06 1.06 1.415-1.413-1.06-1.061Zm0-3.536a2.5 2.5 0 0 1 0 3.536l1.06 1.06a4 4 0 0 0 0-5.656l-1.06 1.06Zm-4.95 4.95a2.5 2.5 0 0 1 0-3.535L6.344 12a4 4 0 0 0 0 5.656l1.06-1.06Zm-1.06 1.06a4 4 0 0 0 5.657 0l-1.061-1.06a2.5 2.5 0 0 1-3.535 0l-1.061 1.06Zm7.07-7.07-.176-.177-1.06 1.06.176.178 1.06-1.061Z"
-        fill="currentColor"
-      />
-    </svg>
-  )
-}
-
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: 'Projects',
   description:
@@ -25,8 +14,8 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
 export default function Projects() {
   return (
     <SimpleLayout
-      title="Projects on GitHub"
-      intro="These repositories are pulled from my public GitHub profile and curated to highlight AI-adjacent work (MCP, agents, on-device ML) alongside platform and product code. Star and fork counts change over time — follow the links for the latest."
+      title="Projects"
+      intro="Curated to match my resume’s open-source section: MCP servers and transports, evolutionary-loop tooling, edge gateways, and product PWAs — plus a few extra public repos. Each card links to GitHub, npm, and/or a live site when available (icons below the title)."
     >
       <ul
         role="list"
@@ -34,22 +23,21 @@ export default function Projects() {
       >
         {featuredRepos.map((project) => (
           <Card as="li" key={project.name}>
-            <div className="relative z-10 flex h-12 w-12 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-white shadow-md ring-1 shadow-zinc-800/5 ring-zinc-900/5 dark:border dark:border-zinc-700/50 dark:bg-zinc-800 dark:ring-0">
-              <GitHubIcon className="h-8 w-8 fill-zinc-700 dark:fill-zinc-200" />
-            </div>
             {project.highlight ? (
-              <p className="relative z-10 mt-3 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-teal-600 dark:text-teal-400">
+              <p className="relative z-10 mt-1 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-teal-600 dark:text-teal-400">
                 AI / agents
               </p>
             ) : null}
-            <h2 className="mt-2 text-base font-semibold text-zinc-800 dark:text-zinc-100">
-              <Card.Link href={project.href}>{project.name}</Card.Link>
+            <h2 className="relative z-10 mt-3 text-base font-semibold tracking-tight text-zinc-800 dark:text-zinc-100">
+              {project.name}
             </h2>
             <Card.Description>{project.description}</Card.Description>
-            <p className="relative z-10 mt-6 flex text-sm font-medium text-zinc-400 transition group-hover:text-teal-500 dark:text-zinc-200">
-              <LinkIcon className="h-6 w-6 flex-none" />
-              <span className="ml-2">{project.label}</span>
-            </p>
+            <ProjectOutboundLinks
+              github={project.github}
+              npm={project.npm}
+              live={project.live}
+              className="mt-6"
+            />
           </Card>
         ))}
       </ul>
diff --git a/personal-site/src/components/ProjectOutboundLinks.tsx b/personal-site/src/components/ProjectOutboundLinks.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61abda3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/personal-site/src/components/ProjectOutboundLinks.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import Link from 'next/link'
+import clsx from 'clsx'
+
+import { GitHubIcon, GlobeIcon, NpmIcon } from '@/components/SocialIcons'
+
+export type ProjectOutbound = {
+  github: string | null
+  npm: string | null
+  live: string | null
+}
+
+const base =
+  'relative z-10 flex h-10 w-10 items-center justify-center rounded-full border border-zinc-200/80 bg-white shadow-sm transition dark:border-zinc-600 dark:bg-zinc-800'
+
+const hoverTeal =
+  'hover:border-teal-500/50 hover:text-teal-600 dark:hover:border-teal-500/50 dark:hover:text-teal-400'
+
+/**
+ * Up to three outbound links (GitHub, npm, live site) with icons — only renders anchors that are set.
+ */
+export function ProjectOutboundLinks({
+  github,
+  npm,
+  live,
+  className,
+}: ProjectOutbound & { className?: string }) {
+  return (
+    <div className={clsx('flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2', className)}>
+      {github ? (
+        <Link
+          href={github}
+          target="_blank"
+          rel="noopener noreferrer"
+          className={clsx(
+            base,
+            'text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-300',
+            hoverTeal,
+            'hover:[&_path]:fill-teal-600 dark:hover:[&_path]:fill-teal-400',
+          )}
+          aria-label="View source on GitHub"
+        >
+          <GitHubIcon className="h-5 w-5 fill-current" />
+        </Link>
+      ) : null}
+      {npm ? (
+        <Link
+          href={npm}
+          target="_blank"
+          rel="noopener noreferrer"
+          className={clsx(
+            base,
+            'border-zinc-200/80 text-[#CB3837] hover:border-[#CB3837]/40 hover:text-[#a12c2c] dark:border-zinc-600',
+          )}
+          aria-label="View package on npm"
+        >
+          <NpmIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
+        </Link>
+      ) : null}
+      {live ? (
+        <Link
+          href={live}
+          target="_blank"
+          rel="noopener noreferrer"
+          className={clsx(base, 'text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-300', hoverTeal)}
+          aria-label="Open live site or docs"
+        >
+          <GlobeIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
+        </Link>
+      ) : null}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/personal-site/src/components/SocialIcons.tsx b/personal-site/src/components/SocialIcons.tsx
index 251913d..ff6d0c4 100644
--- a/personal-site/src/components/SocialIcons.tsx
+++ b/personal-site/src/components/SocialIcons.tsx
@@ -27,6 +27,36 @@ export function GitHubIcon(props: React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'svg'>) {
   )
 }
 
+/** npm registry mark (simplified logo) */
+export function NpmIcon(props: React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'svg'>) {
+  return (
+    <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" {...props}>
+      <path
+        fill="currentColor"
+        d="M1.763 11.925C1.763 6.741 6.744 1.763 12.04 1.763c5.295 0 10.277 4.978 10.277 10.162 0 5.183-4.982 10.162-10.277 10.162-5.296 0-10.278-4.979-10.278-10.162zm4.879 8.046V2.758h7.355v17.213H6.642zm7.355 0h3.503V6.324h-3.503v13.647zm3.503-14.59h3.502V2.758H17.5v3.624zm0 3.624h3.502v10.023H17.5V6.324z"
+      />
+    </svg>
+  )
+}
+
+/** Live site / docs (globe) */
+export function GlobeIcon(props: React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'svg'>) {
+  return (
+    <svg
+      viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+      fill="none"
+      strokeWidth={1.5}
+      stroke="currentColor"
+      strokeLinecap="round"
+      strokeLinejoin="round"
+      aria-hidden="true"
+      {...props}
+    >
+      <path d="M12 21a9.004 9.004 0 008.716-6.747M12 21a9.004 9.004 0 01-8.716-6.747M12 21c2.485 0 4.5-4.03 4.5-9S14.485 3 12 3m0 18c-2.485 0-4.5-4.03-4.5-9S9.515 3 12 3m0 0a8.997 8.997 0 017.843 4.582M12 3a8.997 8.997 0 00-7.843 4.582m15.686 0A11.953 11.953 0 0112 10.5c-2.998 0-5.74-1.1-7.843-2.918m15.686 0A8.959 8.959 0 0121 12c0 .963-.15 1.89-.43 2.76" />
+    </svg>
+  )
+}
+
 export function LinkedInIcon(props: React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'svg'>) {
   return (
     <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" {...props}>
diff --git a/personal-site/src/lib/site.ts b/personal-site/src/lib/site.ts
index 44d8ecb..4e5336d 100644
--- a/personal-site/src/lib/site.ts
+++ b/personal-site/src/lib/site.ts
@@ -95,18 +95,22 @@ export const workRoles: WorkRole[] = [
 export type FeaturedRepo = {
   name: string
   description: string
-  href: string
-  label: string
   /** Highlight for recruiters (AI / agents / platform) */
   highlight: boolean
+  /** Repository or path on GitHub — omit if none */
+  github: string | null
+  /** npm package page — omit if not published */
+  npm: string | null
+  /** Production app, marketing site, or public docs — omit if none */
+  live: string | null
 }
 
 export type FeaturedProject = {
   name: string
   description: string
-  href: string
-  label: string
-  extraLink?: { label: string; href: string }
+  github: string | null
+  npm: string | null
+  live: string | null
 }
 
 export type FeaturedLinkedInPost = {
@@ -175,68 +179,122 @@ export const featuredLinkedInPosts: FeaturedLinkedInPost[] = [
   },
 ]
 
-/** Home page spotlight projects */
+/** Home page spotlight projects (aligned with resume “Open Source and Projects”) */
 export const featuredProjects: FeaturedProject[] = [
   {
     name: 'ClawQL',
     description:
       'Open-source MCP server: multi-protocol API supergraph (OpenAPI/Swagger/Discovery, optional GraphQL/gRPC), vault memory and bulk ingest, audit/cache, and optional sandbox, scheduling, Slack, HITL, and enterprise search — https://docs.clawql.com.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL',
-    label: 'GitHub',
-    extraLink: { label: 'Docs', href: 'https://docs.clawql.com' },
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/clawql-mcp',
+    live: 'https://docs.clawql.com',
   },
   {
     name: 'CoachellaPlus',
     description:
-      'Full-stack TypeScript product work focused on shipping end-to-end web experiences.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/CoachellaPlus',
-    label: 'GitHub',
+      'Full-stack festival-planning PWA with hybrid retrieval (SQLite + embeddings + reranking), OpenRouter LLM integration, Tavily fallback, and group coordination — Lighthouse 90+ and deployed via ClawQL to Cloudflare and GitHub APIs.',
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/CoachellaPlus',
+    npm: null,
+    live: 'https://coachellaplus.com',
   },
   {
-    name: 'gRPC MCP Transport',
+    name: 'mcp-grpc-transport',
     description:
-      'Production-ready gRPC transport for MCP with streaming, health checks, and enterprise-friendly deployment support.',
-    href: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-grpc-transport',
-    label: 'npm',
-    extraLink: {
-      label: 'GitHub repo',
-      href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL',
-    },
+      'TypeScript gRPC transport for MCP: protobuf payloads, unary and bidirectional streaming, grpc.health.v1 probes, mTLS, and Kubernetes-friendly deployment — extends the official MCP SDK beyond stdio and Streamable HTTP.',
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/mcp-grpc-transport',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-grpc-transport',
+    live: null,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'clawql-ouroboros',
+    description:
+      'Pluggable evolutionary-loop library: typed Executor / Evaluator / Wonder / Reflect phases, ontology convergence gates, Postgres-backed lineage, MCP-shaped hooks, and an optional background seed poller.',
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/clawql-ouroboros',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/clawql-ouroboros',
+    live: null,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'panguard-mcp-bridge',
+    description:
+      'Streamable HTTP MCP gateway (optional gRPC) for /mcp at the edge: Panguard on stdio, upstream clawql-mcp-http, optional JWT (JWKS / Bearer on HTTP and gRPC), Helm mcpProxy integration.',
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/panguard-mcp-bridge',
+    npm: null,
+    live: null,
   },
 ]
 
-/** Curated from github.com/danielsmithdevelopment — edit to reorder or swap */
+/**
+ * /projects — resume “Open Source and Projects” plus other public repos you still want featured.
+ * Reorder here; `highlight` drives the “AI / agents” eyebrow on the projects page.
+ */
 export const featuredRepos: FeaturedRepo[] = [
   {
     name: 'ClawQL',
     description:
       'MCP server: search/execute across OpenAPI 3, Swagger 2, and Google Discovery, with optional GraphQL/gRPC upstreams and bundled multi-provider merges (GCP, Cloudflare, GitHub, Slack, document APIs, Onyx, and more). Core tools include vault memory_ingest / memory_recall, audit, cache, and bulk markdown ingest; optional sandbox_exec, schedule, notify (Slack), HITL (Label Studio), Onyx knowledge search, and Ouroboros lineage. stdio, Streamable HTTP, and MCP over gRPC.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL',
-    label: 'github.com · TypeScript',
     highlight: true,
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/clawql-mcp',
+    live: 'https://docs.clawql.com',
   },
   {
-    name: 'gallery (fork)',
+    name: 'CoachellaPlus',
     description:
-      'Exploring on-device ML and GenAI use cases — a gallery to try models locally. Forked to experiment with device-side inference and UX.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/gallery',
-    label: 'github.com · Kotlin',
+      'Full-stack festival-planning PWA: hybrid retrieval (structured JSON + SQLite embeddings + reranking), OpenRouter LLM, Tavily agentic search with a quality-gated self-improving knowledge base, group chat and live location, set builder with conflict detection, PWA with Lighthouse 90+ including WCAG — deployed via ClawQL to Cloudflare and GitHub APIs.',
     highlight: true,
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/CoachellaPlus',
+    npm: null,
+    live: 'https://coachellaplus.com',
   },
   {
-    name: 'CoachellaPlus',
+    name: 'mcp-grpc-transport',
     description:
-      'Full-stack TypeScript site and product work — example of shipping end-to-end web experiences alongside infrastructure work.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/CoachellaPlus',
-    label: 'github.com',
-    highlight: false,
+      'First TypeScript/Node.js gRPC transport for the Model Context Protocol: protobuf payloads, unary and bidirectional streaming, grpc.health.v1 probes, mTLS, and enterprise Kubernetes deployment patterns — alongside the official SDK’s stdio and Streamable HTTP.',
+    highlight: true,
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/mcp-grpc-transport',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-grpc-transport',
+    live: null,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'clawql-ouroboros',
+    description:
+      'Evolutionary loop library: typed Executor, Evaluator, Wonder, and Reflect phases; ontology convergence with stagnation, oscillation, and regression gates; Postgres-backed append-only lineage; InMemoryEventStore for tests; MCP-shaped hooks (createSeedFromDocument, runEvolutionaryLoop, getLineageStatus); optional background seed poller.',
+    highlight: true,
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/clawql-ouroboros',
+    npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/clawql-ouroboros',
+    live: null,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'panguard-mcp-bridge',
+    description:
+      'Streamable HTTP MCP gateway (optional gRPC via mcp-grpc-transport): /mcp for clients or a service mesh while Panguard stays on stdio and terminates on remote clawql-mcp-http. Optional JWT (JWKS RS256, Bearer on HTTP and gRPC) and Helm mcpProxy.mode: custom on the clawql-mcp chart.',
+    highlight: true,
+    github:
+      'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/ClawQL/tree/main/packages/panguard-mcp-bridge',
+    npm: null,
+    live: null,
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'gallery (fork)',
+    description:
+      'Exploring on-device ML and GenAI use cases — a gallery to try models locally. Forked to experiment with device-side inference and UX.',
+    highlight: true,
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/gallery',
+    npm: null,
+    live: null,
   },
   {
     name: 'DevSecOps-boilerplate',
     description:
       'Golden images, Ansible, Terraform, and GitHub Actions patterns for secure, repeatable infrastructure automation.',
-    href: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/DevSecOps-boilerplate',
-    label: 'github.com · Go',
     highlight: false,
+    github: 'https://github.com/danielsmithdevelopment/DevSecOps-boilerplate',
+    npm: null,
+    live: null,
   },
 ]