diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1acc166..80bfcee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,9 +42,10 @@ heatmap**, a gym SBD panel and links to friends' sites.
   A spinner covers the frame while the site boots. Discord sends `DENY` and keeps a link card
   instead.
 - **Friend sites in windows** — clicking a friend's desktop icon opens their site in a
-  window. `bukovinafilip.com` and `vlcak.me` send no framing headers, so they load live;
-  `skopec.dev` sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN`, so the window frames the bundled mirror
-  at `/skopec.html` and the `www` button opens the real site.
+  window. `bukovinafilip.com` and `vlcak.me` send no framing headers, so they load directly;
+  `skopec.dev` sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN`, so it loads through `/api/frame`, a
+  header-stripping proxy that serves the live page from our origin. The `www` button always
+  opens the real site.
 - **Minecraft-style SMP window** — the SMP shortcut opens a join menu modelled on
   Minecraft's multiplayer screen, with live status, player count, MOTD and version pulled
   from mcstatus.io through the site's own ping API.
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ they contend for `:3000` and `.next/dev/lock`.
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `/api/heatmap` | `GET` | Proxies the user's contribution heatmap from `git.dvorakmortonxd.dev`. |
 | `/api/activities` | `GET` | Fetches the GitDXD activity feed and keeps only the user's own events. |
+| `/api/frame?url=…` | `GET` | Header-stripping proxy for a friend's site that refuses framing (`skopec.dev`). **Allow-listed hosts only**; fetches the HTML server-side (so the site's `X-Frame-Options` never reaches the browser), injects a `<base>` for relative assets and a click shim for in-site links. Rejects other hosts, non-http(s) schemes and credentials, and never follows redirects. |
 | `/api/ping?url=…` | `GET` | Health-checks an **allow-listed** service (the site's own `*.dvorakmortonxd.dev` hosts and the friends' sites). Handles `minecraft://host:port` via mcstatus.io; treats any non-5xx response as "up". Other hosts and schemes are rejected and redirects are never followed, so it can't be used to probe the LAN (SSRF guard). |
 
 ## 📁 Project Structure
diff --git a/agents.md b/agents.md
index eb293ce..d947705 100644
--- a/agents.md
+++ b/agents.md
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ src/app/
     heatmap/route.ts    → proxy for git.dvorakmortonxd.dev contribution heatmap
     activities/route.ts → proxy for the user's GitDXD activity feed
     ping/route.ts       → service health check (HTTP + minecraft:// via mcstatus.io); host allowlist
+    frame/route.ts      → header-stripping proxy so an unframeable friend site loads in a window; host allowlist
   components/
     ThemeRoot.tsx       → picks which shell to show (the router of the UI)
     TerminalLayout.tsx  → "terminal" theme (Gruvbox)
@@ -299,10 +300,16 @@ list reordering, not free placement. Don't confuse the two.
   is the `embed` flag; `friend.url` is what the frame loads and `friend.realUrl`
   is what the www button opens — `createWebsiteApp`'s `embedUrl` option lets the
   two differ. `bukovinafilip.com` and `vlcak.me` send no framing headers, so they
-  frame the live site; `skopec.dev` sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN` on every
-  path, so `friends[0].url` points at the bundled `/public/skopec.html` mirror
-  and only the button is live. Making a blocking site load *live* would need a
-  header-stripping proxy (allowlisted) — not implemented.
+  frame the live site. `skopec.dev` sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN` on every
+  path, so `friend.proxy` routes it through `/api/frame`.
+- `/api/frame` is a **host-allowlisted** header-stripping proxy for sites that
+  refuse framing. It fetches the HTML server-side (so the upstream
+  `X-Frame-Options` never reaches the browser), injects `<base href="origin/">`
+  so relative assets still resolve to the real site, and injects a click shim so
+  same-host navigation is proxied too. It only proxies `ALLOWED_HOSTS`
+  (`skopec.dev`), never follows redirects, rejects credentials and non-http(s),
+  and returns HTML only — it is public, so keep it that narrow. The framed page
+  executes under our origin, so only allow-list hosts you trust.
 - **Embedded iframes swallow the pointer.** While dragging/resizing a window,
   the moment the cursor passes over a service `<iframe>` the site's own document
   receives the `pointermove`/`pointerup`, so a gesture that listens on `window`
@@ -346,6 +353,9 @@ list reordering, not free placement. Don't confuse the two.
   local dir and `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. Frame the test from an `http(s)` origin (e.g.
   a file dropped in `public/` served at `localhost:3000`); a `file://`
   top-level blocks the iframe's storage and makes working sites look blank.
+  For a site that refuses framing, `/api/frame?url=<site>` should return `200`
+  with no `X-Frame-Options` and `frame-ancestors 'self'`, while `?url=` for any
+  other host returns `403`.
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/src/app/api/frame/route.ts b/src/app/api/frame/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72566e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/api/frame/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+
+// Server-side proxy for friend sites that refuse to be framed. `skopec.dev`
+// answers every path with `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN`, so a plain iframe comes
+// up blank. This route fetches the HTML itself — because we build our own
+// response, the upstream framing headers never reach the browser — injects a
+// `<base>` so the site's relative assets still resolve against its own origin,
+// and adds a small click shim so in-site navigation is proxied too.
+//
+// This is a public, unauthenticated endpoint that makes the server fetch a URL
+// for the caller, so it is deliberately narrow: allow-listed hosts only, http(s)
+// only, no credentials, redirects never followed, HTML only. That keeps it from
+// becoming an open proxy or an SSRF gadget. Keep ALLOWED_HOSTS in sync with the
+// friends in data.ts.
+const ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['skopec.dev', 'www.skopec.dev'];
+
+function isAllowedHost(hostname: string): boolean {
+  const host = hostname.toLowerCase().replace(/\.$/, '');
+  return ALLOWED_HOSTS.includes(host);
+}
+
+const FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
+const MAX_HTML_BYTES = 3_000_000;
+
+function fail(status: number, message: string) {
+  return NextResponse.json({ error: message }, { status });
+}
+
+export async function GET(request: Request) {
+  const { searchParams } = new URL(request.url);
+  const raw = searchParams.get('url');
+  if (!raw) return fail(400, 'missing url');
+
+  let target: URL;
+  try {
+    target = new URL(raw);
+  } catch {
+    return fail(400, 'invalid url');
+  }
+
+  if (target.protocol !== 'http:' && target.protocol !== 'https:') {
+    return fail(400, 'unsupported protocol');
+  }
+  if (target.username || target.password) return fail(400, 'credentials not allowed');
+  if (!isAllowedHost(target.hostname)) return fail(403, 'host not allowed');
+
+  let upstream: Response;
+  try {
+    upstream = await fetch(target, {
+      // Never chase a Location off the allowlist (that would reopen the SSRF).
+      redirect: 'manual',
+      signal: AbortSignal.timeout(FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS),
+      headers: {
+        // A browser-ish UA so bot filters don't challenge the server request.
+        'user-agent':
+          'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0 Safari/537.36',
+        accept: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml',
+      },
+    });
+  } catch {
+    return fail(502, 'upstream fetch failed');
+  }
+
+  if (upstream.status >= 300 && upstream.status < 400) {
+    return fail(502, 'upstream redirect not followed');
+  }
+  if (!upstream.ok) return fail(502, `upstream returned ${upstream.status}`);
+
+  const contentType = (upstream.headers.get('content-type') ?? '').toLowerCase();
+  if (!contentType.includes('text/html')) return fail(415, 'upstream is not HTML');
+
+  let html = await upstream.text();
+  if (html.length > MAX_HTML_BYTES) return fail(413, 'upstream response too large');
+
+  // Relative URLs (style.css, favicon.svg, hardware.html, …) must resolve
+  // against the real site, so inject a <base> for the directory we fetched,
+  // before any <base> the page itself provides.
+  const origin = `${target.protocol}//${target.host}`;
+  const directory = target.pathname.replace(/[^/]*$/, '');
+  const head = `<base href="${origin}${directory}">${clickShim(target.hostname)}`;
+
+  html = /<head\b[^>]*>/i.test(html)
+    ? html.replace(/<head\b[^>]*>/i, (tag) => tag + head)
+    : head + html;
+
+  return new NextResponse(html, {
+    status: 200,
+    headers: {
+      'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
+      // Only our own pages may frame the proxied copy.
+      'content-security-policy': "frame-ancestors 'self'",
+      'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
+      'cache-control': 'public, max-age=60',
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Rewrites same-origin link clicks to go back through this proxy, so following
+ * e.g. `hardware.html` doesn't navigate the frame to the real (unframeable)
+ * site. Cross-host links, new-tab links, in-page `#anchors` and non-http schemes
+ * are left alone.
+ */
+function clickShim(hostname: string): string {
+  return `<script>(function(){var HOST=${JSON.stringify(
+    hostname
+  )};document.addEventListener("click",function(e){if(e.defaultPrevented||e.button!==0||e.metaKey||e.ctrlKey||e.shiftKey||e.altKey)return;var t=e.target;var a=t&&t.closest?t.closest("a"):null;if(!a)return;if(a.target&&a.target!=="_self")return;var href=a.getAttribute("href");if(!href||href.charAt(0)==="#")return;var u;try{u=new URL(href,document.baseURI);}catch(_){return;}if(u.protocol!=="http:"&&u.protocol!=="https:")return;if(u.hostname!==HOST&&u.hostname!=="www."+HOST)return;e.preventDefault();window.location.href="/api/frame?url="+encodeURIComponent(u.href);},true);})();</script>`;
+}
diff --git a/src/app/components/WindowsDesktop.tsx b/src/app/components/WindowsDesktop.tsx
index 31fd6dd..7b179dd 100644
--- a/src/app/components/WindowsDesktop.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/WindowsDesktop.tsx
@@ -62,15 +62,18 @@ const SERVICE_SHORTCUTS: Shortcut[] = [
 
 // Friends' sites, opened in a live window when they allow framing. bukovinafilip
 // and vlcak.me send no framing headers, so `url` (== `realUrl`) is framed
-// directly. skopec.dev sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN` on every path, so we
-// frame the same-origin mirror at `/skopec.html` instead; the www button still
-// opens the live site. To embed a site that blocks framing live, it would need a
-// header-stripping proxy.
+// directly. skopec.dev sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN` on every path, so
+// `proxy: true` routes it through /api/frame, which strips the framing headers
+// and serves the live page from our origin. The www button always opens the live
+// site (`realUrl`).
 const FRIEND_SHORTCUTS: Shortcut[] = friends.map((f, i) => ({
   id: `friend-${i}`,
   label: f.name,
   url: f.realUrl || f.url,
-  embedUrl: f.url,
+  embedUrl:
+    f.proxy && f.realUrl
+      ? `/api/frame?url=${encodeURIComponent(f.realUrl)}`
+      : f.url,
   embed: f.iframe,
   color: "#c0392b",
   icon: "🫂",
diff --git a/src/app/data.ts b/src/app/data.ts
index 8456d02..1cbfed9 100644
--- a/src/app/data.ts
+++ b/src/app/data.ts
@@ -19,11 +19,19 @@ export interface TechProject {
 
 export interface Friend {
   name: string;
+  /** What the desktop window frames. A same-origin mirror when the live site blocks framing. */
   url: string;
+  /** The live site: the window's `www` button and the status check use this. */
   realUrl: string;
   img: string;
   desc: string;
+  /** Render in an iframe in a desktop window. */
   iframe: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Load `realUrl` through `/api/frame` (which strips framing headers) instead
+   * of framing `url`. Use for sites that send a restrictive `X-Frame-Options`.
+   */
+  proxy?: boolean;
 }
 
 export const socials: Social[] = [
@@ -233,11 +241,15 @@ export const techProjects: TechProject[] = [
 export const friends: Friend[] = [
   {
     name: "Josef Skopec",
+    // skopec.dev sends `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN` on every path, so the
+    // window goes through /api/frame for the live site; /skopec.html is the
+    // bundled mirror that was used before the proxy existed (kept as a fallback).
     url: "/skopec.html",
     realUrl: "https://skopec.dev/",
     img: "/skopec.svg",
     desc: "skopec.dev",
     iframe: true,
+    proxy: true,
   },
   {
     name: "Filip Bukovina",