diff --git a/agent/insights.py b/agent/insights.py
index 16edddad4db01..efcc9c1fecd0a 100644
--- a/agent/insights.py
+++ b/agent/insights.py
@@ -196,17 +196,23 @@ class InsightsEngine:
             "top_sessions": top_sessions,
         }
 
-    def get_skill_breakdown(self, days: int = 30, source: str = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        """Return only the skills section without running a full generate().
+    def get_usage_breakdown(self, days: int = 30, source: str = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """Return the analytics-usage payload without running a full generate().
 
         Uses the instr()-prefiltered _get_skill_usage query so only messages
-        that reference skill_view or skill_manage are loaded from SQLite,
-        avoiding the cost of _get_sessions, _get_tool_usage, and the other
-        compute passes that generate() performs.
+        that reference skill_view or skill_manage are loaded from SQLite, while
+        still preserving the per-tool breakdown used by the dashboard route.
         """
         cutoff = time.time() - (days * 86400)
+        tool_usage = self._get_tool_usage(cutoff, source)
         skill_usage = self._get_skill_usage(cutoff, source)
-        return self._compute_skill_breakdown(skill_usage)
+        return {
+            "tools": self._compute_tool_breakdown(tool_usage),
+            "skills": self._compute_skill_breakdown(skill_usage),
+        }
+
+    def get_skill_breakdown(self, days: int = 30, source: str = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return self.get_usage_breakdown(days=days, source=source)["skills"]
 
     # =========================================================================
     # Data gathering (SQL queries)
diff --git a/hermes_cli/web_server.py b/hermes_cli/web_server.py
index 2d20fff3cb3da..d9296415d5a3a 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/web_server.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/web_server.py
@@ -14073,7 +14073,7 @@ def _get_usage_analytics(days: int = 30, profile: Optional[str] = None):
             FROM sessions WHERE started_at > ?
         """, (cutoff,))
         totals = dict(cur3.fetchone())
-        skills = InsightsEngine(db).get_skill_breakdown(days=days)
+        usage = InsightsEngine(db).get_usage_breakdown(days=days)
 
         return {
             "daily": daily,
@@ -14083,10 +14083,10 @@ def _get_usage_analytics(days: int = 30, profile: Optional[str] = None):
             "by_task": _aux_task_summary(aux_rows),
             "totals": totals,
             "period_days": days,
-            "skills": skills,
+            "skills": usage["skills"],
             # Per-tool-name call counts (already computed by InsightsEngine);
             # the desktop Capabilities page aggregates these per toolset.
-            "tools": insights_report.get("tools", []),
+            "tools": usage["tools"],
         }
     finally:
         db.close()
diff --git a/tests/agent/test_insights.py b/tests/agent/test_insights.py
index 7215d555d1c06..c9b5474b943ff 100644
--- a/tests/agent/test_insights.py
+++ b/tests/agent/test_insights.py
@@ -479,6 +479,13 @@ class TestInsightsPopulated:
         focused = engine.get_skill_breakdown(days=30)
         assert focused == full["skills"]
 
+    def test_get_usage_breakdown_matches_full_generate(self, populated_db):
+        engine = InsightsEngine(populated_db)
+        full = engine.generate(days=30)
+        focused = engine.get_usage_breakdown(days=30)
+        assert focused["skills"] == full["skills"]
+        assert focused["tools"] == full["tools"]
+
     def test_get_skill_breakdown_respects_source_filter(self, populated_db):
         engine = InsightsEngine(populated_db)
         # Only s1 (cli) has skill_view "github-pr-workflow"
diff --git a/tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py b/tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py
index 16dd0f58a768c..99543f994b76e 100644
--- a/tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py
+++ b/tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py
@@ -2226,11 +2226,34 @@ class TestNewEndpoints:
         """get_usage_analytics must call get_skill_breakdown, not generate()."""
         from unittest.mock import patch
         from agent.insights import InsightsEngine
+        from hermes_state import SessionDB
+
+        db = SessionDB()
+        try:
+            db.create_session(
+                session_id="usage-tools-test",
+                source="cli",
+                model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4",
+            )
+            db.update_token_counts(
+                "usage-tools-test",
+                input_tokens=10,
+                output_tokens=5,
+            )
+            db.append_message(
+                "usage-tools-test",
+                role="tool",
+                content="read output",
+                tool_name="read_file",
+            )
+        finally:
+            db.close()
 
         with patch.object(InsightsEngine, "generate") as mock_generate:
             resp = self.client.get("/api/analytics/usage?days=7")
         assert resp.status_code == 200
         mock_generate.assert_not_called()
+        assert any(tool["tool"] == "read_file" for tool in resp.json()["tools"])
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Model context length: normalize/denormalize + /api/model/info