diff --git a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.html b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.html
index ed398b8..fd000fb 100644
--- a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.html
+++ b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.html
@@ -144,12 +144,33 @@
             >
           </td>
           <td class="cell-actor">
-            <div class="actor-hash">{{ event.actorIdHash ?? '(anonymous)' }}</div>
-            @if (event.subject; as subject) {
+            @if (event.actorIdHash; as hash) {
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              class="actor-hash actor-hash--clickable"
+              (click)="filterByActor(hash)"
+              [attr.title]="'Filter the table on ' + hash"
+            >
+              {{ hash }}
+            </button>
+            } @else {
+            <div class="actor-hash">(anonymous)</div>
+            } @if (event.subject; as subject) {
             <div class="subject">{{ subject }}</div>
             }
           </td>
-          <td class="cell-trace">{{ event.traceId ?? '—' }}</td>
+          <td class="cell-trace">
+            @if (event.traceId; as traceId) {
+            <a
+              class="trace-link"
+              [href]="jaegerUrl(traceId)"
+              target="_blank"
+              rel="noopener noreferrer"
+              [attr.title]="'Open trace ' + traceId + ' in Jaeger'"
+              >{{ traceId }}</a
+            >
+            } @else { — }
+          </td>
           <td class="cell-payload">
             @if (event.payload) {
             <details>
diff --git a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.scss b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.scss
index 8b9d8ff..f3fcd65 100644
--- a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.scss
+++ b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.scss
@@ -273,6 +273,65 @@
   color: #9ca3af;
 }
 
+// The clickable variant of `.actor-hash` (rendered as a <button> so
+// keyboard activation works) reuses the inline-hash typography but
+// strips the native button chrome and surfaces a subtle hover
+// affordance. Filter pivot per the same row's actor.
+.actor-hash--clickable {
+  display: inline;
+  padding: 0;
+  margin: 0;
+  background: transparent;
+  border: 0;
+  text-align: left;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  text-decoration: underline dotted transparent;
+  text-underline-offset: 2px;
+  transition:
+    color 0.12s ease-out,
+    text-decoration-color 0.12s ease-out;
+
+  &:hover {
+    color: var(--color-brand-primary-600, #1d4ed8);
+    text-decoration-color: currentColor;
+  }
+
+  &:focus-visible {
+    outline: 2px solid var(--color-brand-primary-500, #2563eb);
+    outline-offset: 2px;
+    border-radius: 0.125rem;
+  }
+}
+
+:host-context(.dark) .actor-hash--clickable {
+  &:hover {
+    color: var(--color-brand-primary-300, #93c5fd);
+  }
+}
+
+// Trace-id deep-link into Jaeger. Same hash typography as the actor
+// cell (already inherited via `.cell-trace`), plus a brand-coloured
+// underline so investigators read it as "follow this".
+.trace-link {
+  color: var(--color-brand-primary-600, #1d4ed8);
+  text-decoration: underline;
+  text-underline-offset: 2px;
+
+  &:hover {
+    text-decoration-thickness: 2px;
+  }
+
+  &:focus-visible {
+    outline: 2px solid var(--color-brand-primary-500, #2563eb);
+    outline-offset: 2px;
+    border-radius: 0.125rem;
+  }
+}
+
+:host-context(.dark) .trace-link {
+  color: var(--color-brand-primary-300, #93c5fd);
+}
+
 .aud-badge,
 .outcome-badge {
   display: inline-block;
diff --git a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.spec.ts b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.spec.ts
index 3b3c432..f3401af 100644
--- a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.spec.ts
@@ -197,4 +197,52 @@ describe('AuditPage', () => {
     expect(rows[0]?.querySelector('details')).not.toBeNull();
     expect(rows[1]?.querySelector('details')).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it('renders trace_id as a Jaeger deep link (anchor with target=_blank)', async () => {
+    const { fixture } = setup();
+    await flush(fixture);
+    const root = fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+    const rows = root.querySelectorAll<HTMLTableRowElement>('.audit-table tbody tr');
+    const link = rows[0]?.querySelector<HTMLAnchorElement>('.trace-link');
+    expect(link).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(link?.getAttribute('href')).toContain('/trace/trace-abc');
+    expect(link?.getAttribute('target')).toBe('_blank');
+    expect(link?.getAttribute('rel')).toContain('noopener');
+  });
+
+  it('renders the dash placeholder for rows without a trace_id', async () => {
+    const { fixture } = setup();
+    await flush(fixture);
+    const root = fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+    const rows = root.querySelectorAll<HTMLTableRowElement>('.audit-table tbody tr');
+    expect(rows[1]?.querySelector('.trace-link')).toBeNull();
+    expect(rows[1]?.querySelector('.cell-trace')?.textContent?.trim()).toBe('—');
+  });
+
+  it('clicking an actor hash re-runs the query filtered on that hash + resets offset', async () => {
+    const { fixture, query } = setup();
+    await flush(fixture);
+    query.mockClear();
+    const root = fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+    const rows = root.querySelectorAll<HTMLTableRowElement>('.audit-table tbody tr');
+    rows[0]?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>('.actor-hash--clickable')?.click();
+    await flush(fixture);
+    expect(query).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const filters = query.mock.calls[0]?.[0] as AdminAuditQuery;
+    expect(filters.actorIdHash).toBe('hash(jane)');
+    expect(filters.offset).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('renders the anonymous actor as plain text (not a button)', async () => {
+    const anonymousPage: AdminAuditPage = {
+      ...PAGE,
+      items: [{ ...PAGE.items[0]!, actorIdHash: null }],
+    };
+    const { fixture } = setup({ initial: anonymousPage });
+    await flush(fixture);
+    const root = fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+    const row = root.querySelector<HTMLTableRowElement>('.audit-table tbody tr');
+    expect(row?.querySelector('.actor-hash--clickable')).toBeNull();
+    expect(row?.querySelector('.actor-hash')?.textContent?.trim()).toBe('(anonymous)');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.ts b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.ts
index 45529bc..1c5c7d8 100644
--- a/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.ts
+++ b/apps/portal-admin/src/app/pages/audit/audit.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { ChangeDetectionStrategy, Component, computed, inject, signal } from '@angular/core';
 import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
 import { firstValueFrom } from 'rxjs';
+import { environment } from '../../../environments/environment';
 import {
   AuditEventsService,
   type AdminAuditPage,
@@ -143,6 +144,31 @@ export class AuditPage {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Build a Jaeger-UI deep link for the given trace id — the audit
+   * table's `trace_id` cell becomes a clickable link to the
+   * trace-explorer per ADR-0012's "join audit and app logs by
+   * trace_id" promise. Anonymous events (`traceId === null`) don't
+   * get a link; the cell stays a dash.
+   */
+  protected jaegerUrl(traceId: string): string {
+    return `${environment.jaegerBaseUrl}/trace/${encodeURIComponent(traceId)}`;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Pivot the table on a single actor: set the `actorIdHash` filter
+   * to the clicked hash, reset paging to 0, and re-query. Lets an
+   * investigator click any row's actor cell to "show me everything
+   * else this actor did". Per-query audit row (`admin.audit.query`)
+   * is still emitted server-side so the pivot is itself auditable.
+   */
+  async filterByActor(hash: string): Promise<void> {
+    if (!hash) return;
+    this.actorIdHash.set(hash);
+    this.offset.set(0);
+    await this.fetch();
+  }
+
   private async fetch(): Promise<void> {
     this.loading.set(true);
     this.error.set(null);
diff --git a/apps/portal-admin/src/environments/environment.ts b/apps/portal-admin/src/environments/environment.ts
index 569f489..904d22d 100644
--- a/apps/portal-admin/src/environments/environment.ts
+++ b/apps/portal-admin/src/environments/environment.ts
@@ -43,4 +43,16 @@ export const environment = {
    * not an Angular route.
    */
   shellAppUrl: 'http://localhost:4200',
+
+  /**
+   * Base origin of the Jaeger UI — the trace-explorer the admin
+   * audit-log viewer links each `trace_id` to. Dev points at the
+   * compose-managed Jaeger from the `observability` profile (see
+   * `infra/local/dev.compose.yml`). Prod will switch to whatever
+   * trace backend the future infrastructure ADR picks (Tempo,
+   * Grafana Cloud, on-prem Jaeger…) via the per-env file replacement.
+   *
+   * Trace URLs are built as `${jaegerBaseUrl}/trace/<id>`.
+   */
+  jaegerBaseUrl: 'http://localhost:16686',
 };