diff --git a/client/src/components/users/UserAvatar.tsx b/client/src/components/users/UserAvatar.tsx
index 415f0095..11a1a923 100644
--- a/client/src/components/users/UserAvatar.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/users/UserAvatar.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * @file UserAvatar.tsx
  * @description An account's round picture: the signed-in account's own
  * (`GET /api/me/avatar`) or, with `userId`, another's (`GET
- * /api/users/:id/avatar`, staff only), versioned by `avatarAt`; without one —
+ * /api/users/:id/avatar`, any signed-in account), versioned by `avatarAt`; without one —
  * or when the image fails to load — the first letters of its name. Used by the
  * sidebar's account row, its workspace owner groups, Settings → Account, the
  * Users page and its editor, the pool board and member picker, and System
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export function UserAvatar({
 }: {
   name: string;
   avatarAt?: string | null;
-  /** Another account's (staff only); omitted = the signed-in account's own. */
+  /** Another account's; omitted = the signed-in account's own. */
   userId?: number;
   /** How many letters of the name stand in for a missing picture. */
   letters?: number;
diff --git a/client/src/lib/api.ts b/client/src/lib/api.ts
index e593c03d..71fc9dec 100644
--- a/client/src/lib/api.ts
+++ b/client/src/lib/api.ts
@@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ export const api = {
   },
   // ───────────────────────── Server mode staff views (routes/users.js) ─────────────────────────
   users: {
-    /** URL of one account's avatar (admin/analyst), versioned by `avatarAt` (null = none). */
+    /** URL of one account's avatar (any signed-in account), versioned by `avatarAt` (null = none). */
     avatarUrl: (id: number, avatarAt?: string | null) =>
       avatarAt ? `${BASE}/users/${id}/avatar?v=${encodeURIComponent(avatarAt)}` : null,
     /** GET /api/users — every account with its recent usage (admin/analyst). */
diff --git a/server/__tests__/me-avatar.test.js b/server/__tests__/me-avatar.test.js
index 157d6135..b5cf1a59 100644
--- a/server/__tests__/me-avatar.test.js
+++ b/server/__tests__/me-avatar.test.js
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
  * server/lib/avatars.js): an account sets, reads and removes its own picture;
  * only PNG/JPEG/GIF/WebP by magic bytes (an SVG is refused), at most 1 MB,
  * served with `nosniff` and a `sandbox` CSP; `avatarAt` reaches `/api/auth/me`;
- * another account never sees it through `/api/me`; staff read it at
- * `/api/users/:id/avatar` (a developer is refused) and a workspace carries
+ * another account never sees it through `/api/me`; every account reads it at
+ * `/api/users/:id/avatar` (a developer too — only the picture, the rest of
+ * `/users` stays staff-only) and a workspace carries
  * `owner_avatar_at` for the sidebar's owner groups. A picture from a link
  * (`POST /api/me/avatar/url`, server/lib/avatar-url.js) is stored, never
  * downloaded, and the avatar routes redirect to it; https only, never a
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ it("a picture from a link: https only, never a private or local address", async
   }
 });
 
-it("staff read another account's avatar; workspaces carry owner_avatar_at", async () => {
+it("every account reads another's avatar; workspaces carry owner_avatar_at", async () => {
   const ava = await login("ava", "ava-pass-1");
   const ann = await login("ann", "ann-pass-1");
   const bob = await login("bob", "bob-pass-1");
@@ -210,8 +211,12 @@ it("staff read another account's avatar; workspaces carry owner_avatar_at", asyn
   assert.deepEqual(Buffer.from(await got.arrayBuffer()), PNG);
   assert.equal(
     (await fetch(`${BASE}/api/users/${id}/avatar`, { headers: { cookie: bob } })).status,
-    403
+    200
   );
+  // Only the picture: the rest of /users stays staff-only for a developer.
+  for (const path of [`/api/users/${id}`, `/api/users/${id}/details`, "/api/users"]) {
+    assert.equal((await fetch(BASE + path, { headers: { cookie: bob } })).status, 403, path);
+  }
   const lanes = (await (await fetch(BASE + "/api/lanes", { headers: { cookie: ann } })).json())
     .lanes;
   assert.ok(lanes.find((l) => l.cwd === "/w/ava").owner_avatar_at);
diff --git a/server/lib/auth.js b/server/lib/auth.js
index 94c4d48a..1bf63ff7 100644
--- a/server/lib/auth.js
+++ b/server/lib/auth.js
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ const STAFF_ONLY_PREFIXES = [
 // Staff-only paths with an id in the middle, matched on `apiPath()`'s
 // lower-cased form: the host's own AI-tool config files (they may hold keys).
 const STAFF_ONLY_PATTERNS = [/^\/ai-tools\/[^/]+\/config(\/|$)/];
+// The one read under a staff-only prefix every signed-in user may make: an
+// account's PICTURE (`GET /users/:id/avatar` — the image or a redirect to its
+// link, nothing else of the account). System Health shows every user's name and
+// `avatarAt` to everyone, so a developer refused here saw only initials.
+const EVERYONE_READS = [/^\/users\/\d+\/avatar$/];
 
 const isServerMode = () => process.env.AGENTHUB_MODE === "server";
 
@@ -789,6 +794,7 @@ function authGuard(req, res, next) {
   const isRead = req.method === "GET" || req.method === "HEAD";
   if (
     user.role === "developer" &&
+    !(isRead && EVERYONE_READS.some((re) => re.test(lp))) &&
     (STAFF_ONLY_PREFIXES.some(under) || STAFF_ONLY_PATTERNS.some((re) => re.test(lp)))
   ) {
     return deny(res, 403, "EADMIN", "only an admin or analyst may open this");
diff --git a/server/openapi-extra/auth.js b/server/openapi-extra/auth.js
index 23197db0..b6341ca6 100644
--- a/server/openapi-extra/auth.js
+++ b/server/openapi-extra/auth.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  *   - POST /api/me/avatar/url (Auth) — the picture as a link, redirected to
  *   - GET/PATCH /api/users/{id} (Auth) — the Users page's Edit user form (its `quota` too)
  *   - PUT /api/users/quota-default, GET /api/me/quota (Auth) — spend quotas per user
- *   - GET /api/users/{id}/avatar (Auth) — one account's picture (admin/analyst)
+ *   - GET /api/users/{id}/avatar (Auth) — one account's picture (every account)
  *   - GET /api/users/tmux, POST /api/users/{id}/tmux-restart, POST /api/users/tmux-restart-idle
  *     (Auth) — each member's own tmux server and an admin's restart of it (S3)
  * Exports `{ tags, schemas, paths }`, combined into the spec by
@@ -731,12 +731,11 @@ const paths = {
     get: {
       tags: ["Auth"],
       operationId: "getUserAvatar",
-      summary: "One account's picture, for the sidebar's owner groups (admin/analyst)",
+      summary: "One account's picture, for owner groups and System Health (every signed-in account)",
       parameters: [{ name: "id", in: "path", required: true, schema: { type: "integer" } }],
       responses: {
         200: { description: "The image (PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP)" },
         302: { description: "Redirect to that account's avatar link" },
-        403: err("EADMIN — a developer"),
         404: err("ENOAVATAR"),
       },
     },
diff --git a/server/routes/users.js b/server/routes/users.js
index e8c98291..11677b91 100644
--- a/server/routes/users.js
+++ b/server/routes/users.js
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
  * tool the accounts it may run on (pin, group, quota, its own 5 h / 7 d share
  * of each — `accountUsage` with `ownerId`) and the ones it actually ran on;
  * `GET /:id/avatar` its picture (server/lib/avatars.js), for the sidebar's
- * owner groups — staff only like the rest of `/users`.
+ * owner groups and System Health — the one `/users` read a developer may make
+ * too (`EVERYONE_READS` in server/lib/auth.js).
  *
  * The Users page's account changes — `POST /` (create), `PATCH /:id` (the Edit
  * user form: display name, email, role, disabled, a new password, workspaces