diff --git a/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.test.tsx b/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa100808
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { fireEvent, render, screen, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
+import { MemoryRouter, useLocation } from "react-router";
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import type { PluginInstallation } from "@/api/types";
+import { buildAdminCommandNavSections } from "@/lib/adminNavigation";
+
+const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  navigateToPluginRoute: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/buildPluginHref", () => ({
+  navigateToPluginRoute: (...args: unknown[]) => mocks.navigateToPluginRoute(...args),
+}));
+
+import { AdminSectionCommandDialog } from "./AdminSectionCommandDialog";
+
+function renderDialog(sections = buildAdminCommandNavSections(undefined)) {
+  render(
+    <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/admin"]}>
+      <AdminSectionCommandDialog sections={sections} />
+      <CurrentPath />
+    </MemoryRouter>,
+  );
+}
+
+function CurrentPath() {
+  const location = useLocation();
+  return <output aria-label="Current path">{`${location.pathname}${location.search}`}</output>;
+}
+
+async function openDialog() {
+  fireEvent.keyDown(window, { key: "k", metaKey: true });
+  const searchBox = await screen.findByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" });
+  await waitFor(() => expect(searchBox).toHaveFocus());
+  return searchBox;
+}
+
+describe("AdminSectionCommandDialog", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mocks.navigateToPluginRoute.mockReset();
+  });
+
+  it("does not render a visible search input before Cmd+K", () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("opens and focuses admin search with Cmd+K", async () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    await openDialog();
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /Dashboard/ })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("searches all admin section groups", async () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    const searchBox = await openDialog();
+    await userEvent.type(searchBox, "history import");
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /History Import/ })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("option", { name: /Settings/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("searches individual admin setting labels from the dashboard dialog", async () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    const searchBox = await openDialog();
+    await userEvent.type(searchBox, "pool max open");
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /Database/ })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText("Pool Max Open")).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /Database/ }));
+
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Current path")).toHaveTextContent("/admin/settings?tab=database");
+  });
+
+  it("includes admin plugin app destinations", async () => {
+    const sections = buildAdminCommandNavSections([
+      {
+        id: 7,
+        plugin_id: "arrproxy",
+        enabled: true,
+        routes: [
+          {
+            id: "admin",
+            method: "GET",
+            path: "/",
+            access: "admin",
+            navigable: true,
+            navigation_label: "ArrProxy",
+            navigation_kind: "admin",
+            static_asset: true,
+          },
+        ],
+      } as PluginInstallation,
+    ]);
+    renderDialog(sections);
+
+    const searchBox = await openDialog();
+    await userEvent.type(searchBox, "arrproxy");
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /ArrProxy/ }));
+
+    expect(mocks.navigateToPluginRoute).toHaveBeenCalledWith("/api/v1/plugins/7/");
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("closes after choosing an internal result", async () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    const searchBox = await openDialog();
+    await userEvent.type(searchBox, "logs");
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole("option", { name: /Logs/ }));
+
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Current path")).toHaveTextContent("/admin/logs");
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("closes with Escape", async () => {
+    renderDialog();
+
+    await openDialog();
+    await userEvent.keyboard("{Escape}");
+
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(screen.queryByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" })).toBeNull(),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("captures Cmd+K before document-level global search handlers", async () => {
+    const globalSearchShortcut = vi.fn();
+    document.addEventListener("keydown", globalSearchShortcut);
+
+    try {
+      renderDialog();
+
+      fireEvent.keyDown(document.body, { key: "k", metaKey: true });
+
+      await screen.findByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search admin sections" });
+      expect(globalSearchShortcut).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    } finally {
+      document.removeEventListener("keydown", globalSearchShortcut);
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.tsx b/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1cd5d8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { Search } from "lucide-react";
+import { VisuallyHidden } from "radix-ui";
+import { useNavigate } from "react-router";
+
+import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogDescription, DialogTitle } from "@/components/ui/dialog";
+import {
+  countSettingsSearchItems,
+  filterSettingsSearchEntries,
+  filterSettingsSearchGroups,
+} from "@/components/settings/settingsSearch";
+import { navigateToPluginRoute } from "@/lib/buildPluginHref";
+import type { AdminNavGroup, AdminNavItem } from "@/lib/adminNavigation";
+import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
+
+interface AdminSectionCommandDialogProps {
+  sections: readonly AdminNavGroup[];
+}
+
+export function AdminSectionCommandDialog({ sections }: AdminSectionCommandDialogProps) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const [query, setQuery] = useState("");
+  const [selectedIndex, setSelectedIndex] = useState(0);
+  const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+
+  const filteredSections = useMemo(
+    () => filterSettingsSearchGroups(sections, query),
+    [query, sections],
+  );
+  const results = useMemo(
+    () => filteredSections.flatMap((section) => section.items),
+    [filteredSections],
+  );
+  const resultIndexByHref = useMemo(
+    () => new Map(results.map((item, index) => [item.href, index])),
+    [results],
+  );
+  const totalCount = countSettingsSearchItems(sections);
+  const resultCount = results.length;
+  const selectedResult = selectedIndex >= 0 ? results[selectedIndex] : undefined;
+
+  const focusSearch = useCallback(() => {
+    const focus = () => {
+      inputRef.current?.focus();
+      inputRef.current?.select();
+    };
+    if (typeof window.requestAnimationFrame === "function") {
+      window.requestAnimationFrame(focus);
+      return;
+    }
+    window.setTimeout(focus, 0);
+  }, []);
+
+  const closeDialog = useCallback(() => {
+    setOpen(false);
+    setQuery("");
+    setSelectedIndex(0);
+  }, []);
+
+  const openDialog = useCallback(() => {
+    setOpen(true);
+    focusSearch();
+  }, [focusSearch]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onKeyDown = (event: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (event.defaultPrevented || !(event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey)) return;
+      if (event.key.toLowerCase() !== "k") return;
+
+      event.preventDefault();
+      event.stopPropagation();
+      event.stopImmediatePropagation();
+      openDialog();
+    };
+
+    window.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+    return () => window.removeEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+  }, [openDialog]);
+
+  const pickResult = useCallback(
+    (item: AdminNavItem) => {
+      closeDialog();
+      if (item.external) {
+        void navigateToPluginRoute(item.href);
+        return;
+      }
+      navigate(item.href);
+    },
+    [closeDialog, navigate],
+  );
+
+  function handleInputKeyDown(event: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLInputElement>) {
+    if (event.key === "ArrowDown") {
+      event.preventDefault();
+      setSelectedIndex((current) => (resultCount === 0 ? -1 : (current + 1) % resultCount));
+    } else if (event.key === "ArrowUp") {
+      event.preventDefault();
+      setSelectedIndex((current) =>
+        resultCount === 0 ? -1 : current <= 0 ? resultCount - 1 : current - 1,
+      );
+    } else if (event.key === "Enter") {
+      if (!selectedResult) return;
+      event.preventDefault();
+      pickResult(selectedResult);
+    } else if (event.key === "Escape") {
+      event.preventDefault();
+      closeDialog();
+    }
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Dialog
+      open={open}
+      onOpenChange={(nextOpen) => {
+        if (nextOpen) {
+          openDialog();
+          return;
+        }
+        closeDialog();
+      }}
+    >
+      <DialogContent
+        className="top-[18%] max-h-[min(34rem,calc(100dvh-4rem))] translate-y-0 gap-0 overflow-hidden p-0 sm:max-w-xl"
+        showCloseButton={false}
+      >
+        <VisuallyHidden.Root>
+          <DialogTitle>Search admin sections</DialogTitle>
+          <DialogDescription>Search and open admin sections.</DialogDescription>
+        </VisuallyHidden.Root>
+        <div className="border-border flex h-12 items-center border-b px-4">
+          <Search className="text-muted-foreground mr-3 h-4 w-4 shrink-0" aria-hidden="true" />
+          <input
+            ref={inputRef}
+            type="search"
+            value={query}
+            onChange={(event) => {
+              setQuery(event.target.value);
+              setSelectedIndex(0);
+            }}
+            onKeyDown={handleInputKeyDown}
+            placeholder="Search admin sections..."
+            aria-label="Search admin sections"
+            aria-activedescendant={selectedResult ? resultId(selectedResult.href) : undefined}
+            className="placeholder:text-muted-foreground h-full min-w-0 flex-1 bg-transparent text-sm outline-none"
+            autoComplete="off"
+            autoFocus
+          />
+          <kbd className="bg-muted text-muted-foreground pointer-events-none ml-3 hidden rounded border px-1.5 py-0.5 text-[10px] font-medium select-none sm:inline-flex">
+            ESC
+          </kbd>
+        </div>
+
+        <div className="max-h-[min(25rem,58vh)] overflow-y-auto overscroll-contain p-2">
+          {filteredSections.length > 0 ? (
+            <div role="listbox" aria-label="Admin sections" className="space-y-3">
+              {filteredSections.map((section) => (
+                <div key={section.label}>
+                  <div className="text-muted-foreground px-2 pb-1 text-xs font-medium">
+                    {section.label}
+                  </div>
+                  <div className="space-y-1">
+                    {section.items.map((item) => {
+                      const index = resultIndexByHref.get(item.href) ?? -1;
+                      return (
+                        <AdminCommandResultRow
+                          key={item.href}
+                          item={item}
+                          query={query}
+                          selected={index === selectedIndex}
+                          onMouseEnter={() => setSelectedIndex(index)}
+                          onPick={() => pickResult(item)}
+                        />
+                      );
+                    })}
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              ))}
+            </div>
+          ) : (
+            <p className="text-muted-foreground px-3 py-6 text-center text-sm">
+              No matching admin sections
+            </p>
+          )}
+        </div>
+
+        <div className="text-muted-foreground border-border border-t px-4 py-2 text-xs">
+          {query.trim()
+            ? `${resultCount} ${resultCount === 1 ? "match" : "matches"}`
+            : `${totalCount} admin sections`}
+        </div>
+      </DialogContent>
+    </Dialog>
+  );
+}
+
+function AdminCommandResultRow({
+  item,
+  query,
+  selected,
+  onMouseEnter,
+  onPick,
+}: {
+  item: AdminNavItem;
+  query: string;
+  selected: boolean;
+  onMouseEnter: () => void;
+  onPick: () => void;
+}) {
+  const Icon = item.icon;
+  const matchingSettings = filterSettingsSearchEntries(item.settings, query).slice(0, 3);
+
+  return (
+    <button
+      id={resultId(item.href)}
+      type="button"
+      role="option"
+      aria-selected={selected}
+      data-selected={selected || undefined}
+      onMouseEnter={onMouseEnter}
+      onClick={onPick}
+      className={cn(
+        "focus-visible:ring-ring/50 flex w-full items-start gap-3 rounded-md px-3 py-2 text-left transition-colors focus-visible:ring-[3px] focus-visible:outline-none",
+        selected ? "bg-accent text-accent-foreground" : "hover:bg-accent/70",
+      )}
+    >
+      <span className="text-muted-foreground mt-0.5 flex h-5 w-5 shrink-0 items-center justify-center">
+        <Icon className="h-4 w-4" aria-hidden="true" />
+      </span>
+      <span className="min-w-0">
+        <span className="text-foreground block text-sm font-medium">{item.label}</span>
+        {item.description ? (
+          <span className="text-muted-foreground mt-0.5 block text-xs leading-relaxed">
+            {item.description}
+          </span>
+        ) : null}
+        {matchingSettings.length > 0 ? (
+          <span className="text-muted-foreground mt-1 block text-xs">
+            {matchingSettings.map((setting) => setting.label).join(", ")}
+          </span>
+        ) : null}
+      </span>
+    </button>
+  );
+}
+
+function resultId(href: string) {
+  return `admin-command-${href.replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/gi, "-")}`;
+}
diff --git a/web/src/components/AdminSidebar.tsx b/web/src/components/AdminSidebar.tsx
index ae753aaf..42c27a38 100644
--- a/web/src/components/AdminSidebar.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/AdminSidebar.tsx
@@ -1,51 +1,24 @@
 import { Link, useLocation } from "react-router";
-import {
-  LayoutDashboard,
-  Radio,
-  Library,
-  LayoutPanelTop,
-  PanelsTopLeft,
-  Users,
-  MonitorSmartphone,
-  History,
-  Captions,
-  Download,
-  SlidersHorizontal,
-  Server,
-  Bot,
-  ArrowLeft,
-  Wrench,
-  KeyRound,
-  CalendarClock,
-  ScrollText,
-  Blocks,
-  Puzzle,
-  Send,
-  RefreshCw,
-  SkipForward,
-} from "lucide-react";
-import type { LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
+import { ArrowLeft } from "lucide-react";
 import type { ReactNode } from "react";
 import { SideNavItem, SideNavSection } from "@/components/SideNav";
 import { SiloBrand } from "@/components/SiloBrand";
+import {
+  ADMIN_NAV_SECTIONS,
+  buildAdminPluginNavItems,
+  type AdminNavGroup,
+  type AdminNavItem,
+} from "@/lib/adminNavigation";
 import { navigateToPluginRoute } from "@/lib/buildPluginHref";
 import { useAdminPluginInstallations } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/plugins";
 import { useAdminSessions } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/stats";
 import { useBuildInfo } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/system";
-import { pluginRouteHref } from "@/lib/pluginRouteHref";
 
-interface SidebarItem {
-  label: string;
-  icon: LucideIcon;
-  href: string;
-  exact?: boolean;
+interface SidebarItem extends AdminNavItem {
   badge?: ReactNode;
-  // external=true means render as <a> (full page navigation) instead of
-  // react-router <Link>. Used for plugin routes mounted at /api/v1/plugins/...
-  external?: boolean;
 }
 
-interface SidebarSection {
+interface SidebarSection extends Omit<AdminNavGroup, "items"> {
   label: string;
   items: SidebarItem[];
 }
@@ -75,63 +48,14 @@ export default function AdminSidebar({ onNavigate }: AdminSidebarProps) {
     buildDisplay = buildInfo.data.display;
   }
 
-  // Grouped by admin intent: monitoring, curating the catalog, background
-  // processing the server runs on its own, people and their data, and the
-  // server installation itself.
-  const sections: SidebarSection[] = [
-    {
-      label: "Overview",
-      items: [
-        { label: "Dashboard", icon: LayoutDashboard, href: "/admin", exact: true },
-        {
-          label: "Activity",
-          icon: Radio,
-          href: "/admin/activity",
-          badge:
-            sessionCount > 0 ? <span className="live-badge">{sessionCount} live</span> : undefined,
-        },
-        { label: "Logs", icon: ScrollText, href: "/admin/logs" },
-      ],
-    },
-    {
-      label: "Content",
-      items: [
-        { label: "Libraries", icon: Library, href: "/admin/libraries" },
-        { label: "Collections", icon: LayoutPanelTop, href: "/admin/collections" },
-        { label: "Sections", icon: PanelsTopLeft, href: "/admin/sections" },
-        { label: "Requests", icon: Send, href: "/admin/requests" },
-      ],
-    },
-    {
-      label: "Automation",
-      items: [
-        { label: "Autoscan", icon: RefreshCw, href: "/admin/autoscan" },
-        { label: "Scheduled Tasks", icon: CalendarClock, href: "/admin/tasks" },
-        { label: "Subtitles", icon: Captions, href: "/admin/subtitles" },
-        { label: "Markers", icon: SkipForward, href: "/admin/marker-history" },
-        { label: "Recommendations", icon: Bot, href: "/admin/recommendations" },
-      ],
-    },
-    {
-      label: "Users",
-      items: [
-        { label: "Users", icon: Users, href: "/admin/users" },
-        { label: "Devices", icon: MonitorSmartphone, href: "/admin/devices" },
-        { label: "Playback History", icon: History, href: "/admin/history" },
-        { label: "History Import", icon: Download, href: "/admin/history-import" },
-      ],
-    },
-    {
-      label: "System",
-      items: [
-        { label: "Settings", icon: SlidersHorizontal, href: "/admin/settings" },
-        { label: "Plugins", icon: Blocks, href: "/admin/plugins" },
-        { label: "Nodes", icon: Server, href: "/admin/nodes" },
-        { label: "API Keys", icon: KeyRound, href: "/admin/api-keys" },
-        { label: "Maintenance", icon: Wrench, href: "/admin/maintenance" },
-      ],
-    },
-  ];
+  const activityBadge =
+    sessionCount > 0 ? <span className="live-badge">{sessionCount} live</span> : undefined;
+  const sections: SidebarSection[] = ADMIN_NAV_SECTIONS.map((section) => ({
+    ...section,
+    items: section.items.map((item) =>
+      item.href === "/admin/activity" ? { ...item, badge: activityBadge } : item,
+    ),
+  }));
 
   // Use the admin installations endpoint, not /settings/plugins — the user
   // settings endpoint filters to plugins that expose user settings / a user-
@@ -139,19 +63,7 @@ export default function AdminSidebar({ onNavigate }: AdminSidebarProps) {
   // arrouter. The admin sidebar needs the full installation list to render
   // its "Plugin Apps" group.
   const { data: adminInstallations } = useAdminPluginInstallations();
-  const adminPluginItems: SidebarItem[] = [];
-  for (const inst of adminInstallations ?? []) {
-    if (!inst.enabled) continue;
-    for (const route of inst.routes ?? []) {
-      if (!route.navigable || route.navigation_kind !== "admin") continue;
-      adminPluginItems.push({
-        label: route.navigation_label || inst.plugin_id,
-        icon: Puzzle,
-        href: pluginRouteHref(inst.id, route.path),
-        external: true,
-      });
-    }
-  }
+  const adminPluginItems = buildAdminPluginNavItems(adminInstallations);
   if (adminPluginItems.length > 0) {
     sections.push({ label: "Plugin Apps", items: adminPluginItems });
   }
diff --git a/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSearchInput.tsx b/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSearchInput.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a44ea0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/components/settings/SettingsSearchInput.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { useEffect, useId, useRef } from "react";
+import { Search, X } from "lucide-react";
+
+import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
+import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
+
+interface SettingsSearchInputProps {
+  value: string;
+  onChange: (value: string) => void;
+  resultCount: number;
+  totalCount: number;
+  placeholder?: string;
+  itemLabel?: string;
+  emptyLabel?: string;
+  className?: string;
+}
+
+export function SettingsSearchInput({
+  value,
+  onChange,
+  resultCount,
+  totalCount,
+  placeholder = "Search settings",
+  itemLabel = "settings sections",
+  emptyLabel = "No matching settings",
+  className,
+}: SettingsSearchInputProps) {
+  const inputId = useId();
+  const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
+  const hasQuery = value.trim().length > 0;
+  const status = hasQuery
+    ? resultCount === 0
+      ? emptyLabel
+      : `${resultCount} ${resultCount === 1 ? "match" : "matches"}`
+    : `${totalCount} ${itemLabel}`;
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onKeyDown = (event: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (event.defaultPrevented || !(event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey)) return;
+      if (event.key.toLowerCase() !== "k") return;
+
+      event.preventDefault();
+      event.stopPropagation();
+      event.stopImmediatePropagation();
+      inputRef.current?.focus();
+      inputRef.current?.select();
+    };
+
+    window.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+    document.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+    return () => {
+      window.removeEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+      document.removeEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown, { capture: true });
+    };
+  }, []);
+
+  return (
+    <div className={cn("w-full", className)}>
+      <label htmlFor={inputId} className="sr-only">
+        {placeholder}
+      </label>
+      <div className="relative">
+        <Search
+          className="text-muted-foreground pointer-events-none absolute top-1/2 left-3 h-4 w-4 -translate-y-1/2"
+          aria-hidden="true"
+        />
+        <Input
+          ref={inputRef}
+          id={inputId}
+          type="search"
+          value={value}
+          placeholder={placeholder}
+          onChange={(event) => onChange(event.target.value)}
+          className="h-10 rounded-xl pr-10 pl-9"
+          autoComplete="off"
+        />
+        {hasQuery ? (
+          <button
+            type="button"
+            aria-label="Clear settings search"
+            onClick={() => onChange("")}
+            className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground focus-visible:ring-ring/50 absolute top-1/2 right-2 inline-flex h-7 w-7 -translate-y-1/2 items-center justify-center rounded-md transition-colors focus-visible:ring-[3px] focus-visible:outline-none"
+          >
+            <X className="h-4 w-4" aria-hidden="true" />
+          </button>
+        ) : null}
+      </div>
+      <p className="text-muted-foreground mt-2 text-xs" aria-live="polite">
+        {status}
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.test.ts b/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c676258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { countSettingsSearchItems, filterSettingsSearchGroups } from "./settingsSearch";
+
+const groups = [
+  {
+    label: "Server",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "General",
+        description: "Authentication and logging",
+        keywords: ["access token", "refresh token", "log level"],
+        settings: [{ label: "Quiet Subsystems" }],
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Database",
+        description: "Postgres and Redis",
+        keywords: ["connection url", "pool"],
+        settings: [{ label: "Pool Max Open" }],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Playback",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Subtitles",
+        description: "Skipping behavior, language, and style",
+        keywords: ["forced subtitles", "captions"],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+describe("settingsSearch", () => {
+  it("returns all groups when the query is empty", () => {
+    const filtered = filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "");
+
+    expect(countSettingsSearchItems(filtered)).toBe(3);
+    expect(filtered.map((group) => group.label)).toEqual(["Server", "Playback"]);
+  });
+
+  it("matches item labels, descriptions, and keywords", () => {
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "redis")).toEqual([
+      {
+        label: "Server",
+        items: [groups[0]!.items[1]],
+      },
+    ]);
+
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "access token")).toEqual([
+      {
+        label: "Server",
+        items: [groups[0]!.items[0]],
+      },
+    ]);
+
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "forced")).toEqual([
+      {
+        label: "Playback",
+        items: [groups[1]!.items[0]],
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("matches individual setting labels", () => {
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "quiet subsystems")).toEqual([
+      {
+        label: "Server",
+        items: [groups[0]!.items[0]],
+      },
+    ]);
+
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "pool max open")).toEqual([
+      {
+        label: "Server",
+        items: [groups[0]!.items[1]],
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("matches section labels by returning the full section", () => {
+    const filtered = filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "server");
+
+    expect(filtered).toEqual([groups[0]]);
+    expect(countSettingsSearchItems(filtered)).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it("does not match short tokens from the middle of a word", () => {
+    expect(filterSettingsSearchGroups(groups, "pin")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts b/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ea505a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+export interface SettingsSearchEntry {
+  label: string;
+  description?: string;
+  keywords?: readonly string[];
+}
+
+export interface SettingsSearchItem {
+  label: string;
+  description?: string;
+  keywords?: readonly string[];
+  settings?: readonly SettingsSearchEntry[];
+}
+
+export interface SettingsSearchGroup<T extends SettingsSearchItem> {
+  label: string;
+  items: readonly T[];
+}
+
+function normalizeSearchText(value: string) {
+  return value
+    .toLowerCase()
+    .normalize("NFKD")
+    .replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "")
+    .replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, " ")
+    .trim();
+}
+
+function searchTokens(query: string) {
+  const normalized = normalizeSearchText(query);
+  return normalized ? normalized.split(/\s+/) : [];
+}
+
+function itemSearchText<T extends SettingsSearchItem>(group: SettingsSearchGroup<T>, item: T) {
+  const settingText = item.settings?.flatMap((setting) => [
+    setting.label,
+    setting.description,
+    ...(setting.keywords ?? []),
+  ]);
+
+  return normalizeSearchText(
+    [group.label, item.label, item.description, ...(item.keywords ?? []), ...(settingText ?? [])]
+      .filter(Boolean)
+      .join(" "),
+  );
+}
+
+function entrySearchText(entry: SettingsSearchEntry) {
+  return normalizeSearchText([entry.label, entry.description, ...(entry.keywords ?? [])].join(" "));
+}
+
+function textMatchesTokens(text: string, tokens: string[]) {
+  const words = text.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean);
+
+  return tokens.every((token) =>
+    words.some((word) => word.startsWith(token) || (token.length >= 4 && word.includes(token))),
+  );
+}
+
+export function filterSettingsSearchEntries(
+  entries: readonly SettingsSearchEntry[] | undefined,
+  query: string,
+) {
+  const tokens = searchTokens(query);
+
+  if (!entries?.length || !tokens.length) {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  return entries.filter((entry) => textMatchesTokens(entrySearchText(entry), tokens));
+}
+
+export function filterSettingsSearchGroups<T extends SettingsSearchItem>(
+  groups: readonly SettingsSearchGroup<T>[],
+  query: string,
+): SettingsSearchGroup<T>[] {
+  const tokens = searchTokens(query);
+
+  if (!tokens.length) {
+    return groups.map((group) => ({ ...group, items: [...group.items] }));
+  }
+
+  return groups
+    .map((group) => {
+      const groupText = normalizeSearchText(group.label);
+      const groupMatches = textMatchesTokens(groupText, tokens);
+      const items = groupMatches
+        ? [...group.items]
+        : group.items.filter((item) => textMatchesTokens(itemSearchText(group, item), tokens));
+
+      return { ...group, items };
+    })
+    .filter((group) => group.items.length > 0);
+}
+
+export function countSettingsSearchItems<T extends SettingsSearchItem>(
+  groups: readonly SettingsSearchGroup<T>[],
+) {
+  return groups.reduce((count, group) => count + group.items.length, 0);
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/adminNavigation.ts b/web/src/lib/adminNavigation.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50723bf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/adminNavigation.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+import {
+  Blocks,
+  Bot,
+  CalendarClock,
+  Captions,
+  Download,
+  History,
+  KeyRound,
+  LayoutDashboard,
+  LayoutPanelTop,
+  Library,
+  MonitorSmartphone,
+  PanelsTopLeft,
+  Puzzle,
+  Radio,
+  RefreshCw,
+  ScrollText,
+  Send,
+  Server,
+  SkipForward,
+  SlidersHorizontal,
+  Users,
+  Wrench,
+} from "lucide-react";
+import type { LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
+
+import type { PluginInstallation } from "@/api/types";
+import type { SettingsSearchGroup, SettingsSearchItem } from "@/components/settings/settingsSearch";
+import { ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS } from "@/lib/adminSettingsSearch";
+import { pluginRouteHref } from "@/lib/pluginRouteHref";
+
+export interface AdminNavItem extends SettingsSearchItem {
+  label: string;
+  icon: LucideIcon;
+  href: string;
+  exact?: boolean;
+  external?: boolean;
+}
+
+export type AdminNavGroup = SettingsSearchGroup<AdminNavItem>;
+
+export const ADMIN_NAV_SECTIONS: AdminNavGroup[] = [
+  {
+    label: "Overview",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Dashboard",
+        description: "Live sessions, content health, and server activity.",
+        keywords: ["overview", "stats", "health", "scan all"],
+        icon: LayoutDashboard,
+        href: "/admin",
+        exact: true,
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Activity",
+        description: "Live streams and current playback sessions.",
+        keywords: ["streams", "sessions", "now playing", "transcode"],
+        icon: Radio,
+        href: "/admin/activity",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Logs",
+        description: "Server log stream and operational output.",
+        keywords: ["server logs", "debug", "tail", "events"],
+        icon: ScrollText,
+        href: "/admin/logs",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Content",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Libraries",
+        description: "Media libraries, paths, scanning, and catalog import/export.",
+        keywords: ["library", "paths", "scan", "catalog", "seed"],
+        icon: Library,
+        href: "/admin/libraries",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Collections",
+        description: "Curated and smart collection management.",
+        keywords: ["collection groups", "templates", "smart collections"],
+        icon: LayoutPanelTop,
+        href: "/admin/collections",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Sections",
+        description: "Home and catalog section configuration.",
+        keywords: ["home rows", "rails", "featured sections"],
+        icon: PanelsTopLeft,
+        href: "/admin/sections",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Requests",
+        description: "User media requests and request handling.",
+        keywords: ["requested media", "approvals", "overseerr"],
+        icon: Send,
+        href: "/admin/requests",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Automation",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Autoscan",
+        description: "Autoscan sources, queue state, and poller behavior.",
+        keywords: ["scan queue", "cephfs", "polling", "matcher"],
+        icon: RefreshCw,
+        href: "/admin/autoscan",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Scheduled Tasks",
+        description: "Background task schedules, runs, and job history.",
+        keywords: ["tasks", "jobs", "scheduler", "sync"],
+        icon: CalendarClock,
+        href: "/admin/tasks",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Subtitles",
+        description: "Downloaded subtitle records and subtitle admin tools.",
+        keywords: ["captions", "subtitle downloads", "providers"],
+        icon: Captions,
+        href: "/admin/subtitles",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Markers",
+        description: "Intro, recap, and credits marker history.",
+        keywords: ["intro markers", "credits", "recaps", "chapters"],
+        icon: SkipForward,
+        href: "/admin/marker-history",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Recommendations",
+        description: "Recommendation diagnostics, seed data, and ranking controls.",
+        keywords: ["taste", "ranking", "recommendation seeds"],
+        icon: Bot,
+        href: "/admin/recommendations",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Users",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Users",
+        description: "Accounts, roles, profile settings, and access.",
+        keywords: ["accounts", "profiles", "roles", "permissions"],
+        icon: Users,
+        href: "/admin/users",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Devices",
+        description: "Registered devices, overrides, and per-device settings.",
+        keywords: ["clients", "device overrides", "sessions"],
+        icon: MonitorSmartphone,
+        href: "/admin/devices",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Playback History",
+        description: "Historical playback events across users and profiles.",
+        keywords: ["history", "watched", "progress", "plays"],
+        icon: History,
+        href: "/admin/history",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "History Import",
+        description: "Admin history import mappings and bulk import runs.",
+        keywords: ["emby", "imports", "mappings", "watch history"],
+        icon: Download,
+        href: "/admin/history-import",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "System",
+    items: [
+      {
+        label: "Settings",
+        description: "Server-wide settings, integrations, storage, and compatibility proxies.",
+        keywords: ["configuration", "server settings", "admin settings"],
+        icon: SlidersHorizontal,
+        href: "/admin/settings",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Plugins",
+        description: "Plugin catalog, repositories, installs, and plugin configuration.",
+        keywords: ["extensions", "plugin catalog", "repositories"],
+        icon: Blocks,
+        href: "/admin/plugins",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Nodes",
+        description: "Stream nodes and remote worker status.",
+        keywords: ["stream nodes", "workers", "transcode nodes"],
+        icon: Server,
+        href: "/admin/nodes",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "API Keys",
+        description: "Admin API keys and tier assignment.",
+        keywords: ["tokens", "keys", "access", "rate limit tier"],
+        icon: KeyRound,
+        href: "/admin/api-keys",
+      },
+      {
+        label: "Maintenance",
+        description: "Operational maintenance tools.",
+        keywords: ["repair", "cleanup", "system maintenance"],
+        icon: Wrench,
+        href: "/admin/maintenance",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+export function buildAdminPluginNavItems(
+  installations: readonly PluginInstallation[] | undefined,
+): AdminNavItem[] {
+  const items: AdminNavItem[] = [];
+
+  for (const installation of installations ?? []) {
+    if (!installation.enabled) continue;
+
+    for (const route of installation.routes ?? []) {
+      if (!route.navigable || route.navigation_kind !== "admin") continue;
+
+      const label = route.navigation_label || installation.plugin_id;
+      items.push({
+        label,
+        description: `${installation.plugin_id} plugin app.`,
+        keywords: [installation.plugin_id, "plugin", "plugin app"],
+        icon: Puzzle,
+        href: pluginRouteHref(installation.id, route.path),
+        external: true,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return items;
+}
+
+export function appendAdminPluginNavSection(
+  sections: readonly AdminNavGroup[],
+  installations: readonly PluginInstallation[] | undefined,
+): AdminNavGroup[] {
+  const pluginItems = buildAdminPluginNavItems(installations);
+
+  if (!pluginItems.length) {
+    return sections.map((section) => ({ ...section, items: [...section.items] }));
+  }
+
+  return [
+    ...sections.map((section) => ({ ...section, items: [...section.items] })),
+    { label: "Plugin Apps", items: pluginItems },
+  ];
+}
+
+export function appendAdminSettingsNavSection(sections: readonly AdminNavGroup[]): AdminNavGroup[] {
+  return [
+    ...sections.map((section) => ({ ...section, items: [...section.items] })),
+    {
+      label: "Admin Settings",
+      items: ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS.flatMap((group) =>
+        group.items.map((item) => ({
+          label: item.label,
+          description: item.description,
+          keywords: ["admin settings", group.label, ...(item.keywords ?? [])],
+          settings: item.settings,
+          icon: item.icon,
+          href: `/admin/settings?tab=${encodeURIComponent(item.id)}`,
+        })),
+      ),
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+export function buildAdminCommandNavSections(
+  installations: readonly PluginInstallation[] | undefined,
+): AdminNavGroup[] {
+  return appendAdminPluginNavSection(
+    appendAdminSettingsNavSection(ADMIN_NAV_SECTIONS),
+    installations,
+  );
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/adminSettingsSearch.ts b/web/src/lib/adminSettingsSearch.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a4b6a8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/adminSettingsSearch.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,409 @@
+import {
+  Bell,
+  Captions,
+  Cloud,
+  Database,
+  Download,
+  Gauge,
+  HardDrive,
+  Layers,
+  Mail,
+  Network,
+  Paintbrush,
+  PlayCircle,
+  Puzzle,
+  ScanSearch,
+  ScrollText,
+  Settings2,
+  Sparkles,
+  Subtitles,
+} from "lucide-react";
+import type { LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
+
+import type { SettingsSearchGroup, SettingsSearchItem } from "@/components/settings/settingsSearch";
+
+export interface AdminSettingsSearchItem extends SettingsSearchItem {
+  id: string;
+  label: string;
+  description: string;
+  keywords?: readonly string[];
+  settings?: readonly { label: string; description?: string; keywords?: readonly string[] }[];
+  icon: LucideIcon;
+}
+
+export type AdminSettingsSearchGroup = SettingsSearchGroup<AdminSettingsSearchItem>;
+
+const settingIndex = (...labels: string[]) => labels.map((label) => ({ label }));
+
+// Tab ids are stable URL state (?tab=...) — regroup or reorder freely, but
+// renaming an id breaks bookmarks and deep links.
+export const ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS: AdminSettingsSearchGroup[] = [
+  {
+    label: "Server",
+    items: [
+      {
+        id: "general",
+        label: "General",
+        description: "Authentication, token lifetimes, and server logging.",
+        keywords: ["access token", "refresh token", "expiry", "log level", "quiet subsystems"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Access Token Expiry",
+          "Refresh Token Expiry",
+          "Log Level",
+          "Quiet Subsystems",
+        ),
+        icon: Settings2,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "theming",
+        label: "Theming",
+        description: "Server theme defaults and available theme catalog.",
+        keywords: ["theme", "default theme", "custom css", "community themes", "appearance"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Preview",
+          "Token Overrides",
+          "Custom CSS",
+          "Branding",
+          "Server Name",
+          "Login Page Subtitle",
+          "Theme Catalog URL",
+        ),
+        icon: Paintbrush,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "overlays",
+        label: "Card Overlays",
+        description: "Server-wide poster badge and overlay defaults.",
+        keywords: ["poster", "badges", "defaults.card_overlays", "overlay preset"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Card Overlays Enabled",
+          "Default Configuration",
+          "Default style preset",
+          "Overlay position",
+          "Overlay enabled",
+        ),
+        icon: Layers,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Media",
+    items: [
+      {
+        id: "scanner",
+        label: "Scanner & Matcher",
+        description: "Scan workers, matcher workers, batch size, and image caching.",
+        keywords: ["scanner workers", "matcher workers", "batch size", "metadata cache images"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Scanner Workers",
+          "Matcher Workers",
+          "Matcher Batch Size",
+          "Cache Images to S3",
+        ),
+        icon: ScanSearch,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "intro",
+        label: "Intro Markers",
+        description: "Marker lookup mode, playback fetches, providers, and submissions.",
+        keywords: [
+          "intro",
+          "credits",
+          "recap",
+          "markers",
+          "chapter markers",
+          "provider contributions",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Mode",
+          "Fetch Markers at Playback if Missing",
+          "Use for Online Marker Lookup",
+          "Allow Contributions",
+          "Auto-submit Local Markers",
+          "Marker Providers",
+        ),
+        icon: Captions,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "subtitles",
+        label: "Subtitles",
+        description: "Downloaded subtitles, provider settings, and subtitle appearance.",
+        keywords: ["opensubtitles", "providers", "subtitle language", "caption", "downloaded"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Provider settings",
+          "Downloaded subtitles",
+          "Subtitle appearance",
+          "Subtitle language",
+          "Subtitle behavior",
+          "Forced subtitles",
+        ),
+        icon: Subtitles,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "ai",
+        label: "AI Services",
+        description: "AI provider endpoints, translation, transcription, and quotas.",
+        keywords: [
+          "openai",
+          "ollama",
+          "base url",
+          "api key",
+          "chat model",
+          "translation",
+          "transcription",
+          "subtitles",
+          "quota",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Base URL",
+          "Chat model",
+          "API Key",
+          "Transcription model",
+          "Transcription base URL",
+          "Transcription API key",
+          "Max concurrent jobs",
+          "Subtitle translation",
+          "Subtitle generation from audio",
+          "Description translation",
+          "On-view translation",
+          "Subtitle batch size",
+          "Subtitle context lines",
+          "Transcription chunk length (seconds)",
+          "Transcription limit per account",
+          "Transcription limit period",
+        ),
+        icon: Sparkles,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "playback",
+        label: "Playback",
+        description: "FFmpeg, transcoding, hardware acceleration, segments, and resume behavior.",
+        keywords: [
+          "ffmpeg",
+          "transcode",
+          "hardware acceleration",
+          "chapter thumbnails",
+          "watched threshold",
+          "resume threshold",
+          "4k",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "FFmpeg Path",
+          "Transcode Directory",
+          "Hardware Acceleration",
+          "Transcoding Enabled",
+          "Local Transcode Fallback",
+          "Allow 4K Transcoding",
+          "Enable Transcode Throttling",
+          "Throttle Buffer (seconds)",
+          "Chapter Thumbnail Workers",
+          "Chapter Thumbnail Execution",
+          "Chapter Thumbnail Node Capacity",
+          "HDR Chapter Thumbnail Policy",
+          "Watched Threshold (%)",
+          "Min Resume Threshold (%)",
+        ),
+        icon: PlayCircle,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "downloads",
+        label: "Downloads",
+        description: "Download enablement, bandwidth, concurrency, and period limits.",
+        keywords: ["bandwidth", "concurrent downloads", "download limit", "period duration"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Downloads Enabled",
+          "Server Bandwidth (Mbps)",
+          "Per-User Bandwidth (Mbps)",
+          "Max Concurrent Downloads Per User",
+          "Max Downloads Per Period",
+          "Period Duration",
+        ),
+        icon: Download,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Connections",
+    items: [
+      {
+        id: "watch-providers",
+        label: "Watch Providers",
+        description: "Provider integrations for watch history and scrobbling.",
+        keywords: ["trakt", "import", "export", "scrobble", "watch history", "favorites"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Client ID", "Client Secret"),
+        icon: Cloud,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "integrations",
+        label: "Integrations",
+        description: "Third-party integration keys and service connections.",
+        keywords: ["mdblist", "api key", "metadata lists"],
+        settings: settingIndex("API Key"),
+        icon: Puzzle,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "email",
+        label: "Email",
+        description: "SMTP delivery, sender address, digest schedule, and external URL.",
+        keywords: ["smtp", "mail", "from address", "digest", "external url", "tls"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Email Enabled",
+          "From Address",
+          "From Name",
+          "Host",
+          "Port",
+          "Security",
+          "Username",
+          "Password",
+          "Verify",
+        ),
+        icon: Mail,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "notifications",
+        label: "Notifications",
+        description:
+          "Server notification channels, release events, Discord, web push, and webhooks.",
+        keywords: [
+          "release events",
+          "new episode",
+          "discord",
+          "browser push",
+          "web push",
+          "webhooks",
+          "server channels",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Record events",
+          "Enable release events",
+          "Fan out",
+          "Enable fanout",
+          "Delivery Channels",
+          "In-App",
+          "Web Push",
+          "Email",
+          "Allow Per-Episode Email",
+          "Digest Hour",
+          "External URL",
+          "Discord",
+          "Client ID",
+          "Client Secret",
+          "Bot Token",
+          "Allow Per-Episode DMs",
+          "Embed Posters",
+          "Personal Webhooks",
+          "Max Webhooks Per Profile",
+          "Deliveries Per Minute Per Profile",
+          "Allow Private Destinations",
+          "Server Channels",
+          "Batch Window (seconds)",
+          "Settle Delay (seconds)",
+          "Max Series Burst",
+          "Max Event Age (hours)",
+          "Read Notifications (days)",
+          "Unread Notifications (days)",
+          "Processed Events (days)",
+        ),
+        icon: Bell,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "compatibility-proxies",
+        label: "Compatibility Proxies",
+        description: "Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf compatibility proxy settings.",
+        keywords: ["jellyfin", "audiobookshelf", "abs", "public url", "server id", "session ttl"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Public URL",
+          "Server Name",
+          "Server ID",
+          "Emulated Server Version",
+          "Session TTL",
+          "Playback Session TTL",
+          "Enable Audiobookshelf Proxy",
+        ),
+        icon: Network,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "rate-limiting",
+        label: "Rate Limiting",
+        description: "Request limits, API tiers, admin limits, and authentication throttles.",
+        keywords: ["limits", "tiers", "requests", "throttle", "429", "api keys"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Enable Rate Limiting",
+          "Backend",
+          "Global Requests Per Second",
+          "Per-IP Limits",
+          "Requests / Second",
+          "Requests / Minute",
+          "Burst",
+          "Standard",
+          "Elevated",
+          "Login",
+          "Signup",
+          "Setup",
+          "Authentication endpoints",
+        ),
+        icon: Gauge,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Data",
+    items: [
+      {
+        id: "database",
+        label: "Database",
+        description: "Postgres, Redis, user database pooling, and Litestream settings.",
+        keywords: [
+          "postgres",
+          "redis",
+          "connection url",
+          "user db",
+          "pool",
+          "litestream",
+          "stale grace",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Max Connections",
+          "Enable Redis",
+          "Connection URL",
+          "User DB Backend",
+          "Pool Max Open",
+          "Idle Timeout",
+          "Litestream Sync Interval",
+          "Stale Grace Seconds",
+        ),
+        icon: Database,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "storage",
+        label: "Storage",
+        description: "Public and private S3 storage buckets, endpoints, and credentials.",
+        keywords: ["s3", "bucket", "endpoint", "region", "access key", "secret key", "uploads"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Endpoint",
+          "Region",
+          "Path Style",
+          "Bucket",
+          "Access Key",
+          "Secret Key",
+          "URL Auth Method",
+          "Read Endpoint",
+          "Token Secret",
+          "Token Param",
+          "Token TTL (seconds)",
+        ),
+        icon: HardDrive,
+      },
+      {
+        id: "log-retention",
+        label: "Log Retention",
+        description: "Operations log cleanup, access log cleanup, and retention policies.",
+        keywords: ["ops log", "access log", "cleanup", "retention", "history"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Retention Days", "Max Rows", "Max Size (MB)", "Bucket Overrides"),
+        icon: ScrollText,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+export const ADMIN_SETTINGS_NAV = ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS.flatMap((group) => group.items);
diff --git a/web/src/pages/AdminDashboard.tsx b/web/src/pages/AdminDashboard.tsx
index 9e83b157..4de840c8 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/AdminDashboard.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/AdminDashboard.tsx
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ import type { ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { Link, useNavigate } from "react-router";
 import { AdminSessionActions } from "@/components/AdminSessionActions";
+import { AdminSectionCommandDialog } from "@/components/AdminSectionCommandDialog";
 import { useEventChannel } from "@/components/realtimeEventsContext";
 import { fetchAdminStats, useAdminStats, useAdminSessions } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/stats";
+import { useAdminPluginInstallations } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/plugins";
 import { useAdminUsers } from "@/hooks/queries/admin/users";
 import {
   useAdminLibraries,
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ import { useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { adminKeys } from "@/hooks/queries/keys";
 import { usePageActivity } from "@/hooks/usePageActivity";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
+import { buildAdminCommandNavSections } from "@/lib/adminNavigation";
 import { compareActiveScans, formatActiveScanMode, formatActiveScanProgress } from "@/lib/scanRuns";
 
 const REFRESH_SPINNER_MIN_VISIBLE_MS = 1_000;
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ export default function AdminDashboard() {
   const sessionsQuery = useAdminSessions();
   const librariesQuery = useAdminLibraries();
   const usersQuery = useAdminUsers();
+  const { data: adminInstallations } = useAdminPluginInstallations();
   const scanAll = useScanAllLibraries();
   const pageActivity = usePageActivity();
   const manualRefreshStartedAtRef = useRef<number | null>(null);
@@ -107,6 +111,10 @@ export default function AdminDashboard() {
   const lastUpdatedLabel = lastDashboardUpdatedAt
     ? formatRelativeUpdatedLabel(relativeUpdatedNow, lastDashboardUpdatedAt)
     : null;
+  const adminSearchSections = useMemo(
+    () => buildAdminCommandNavSections(adminInstallations),
+    [adminInstallations],
+  );
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!lastDashboardUpdatedAt) {
@@ -211,6 +219,8 @@ export default function AdminDashboard() {
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-6 lg:space-y-8">
+      <AdminSectionCommandDialog sections={adminSearchSections} />
+
       {/* Page header */}
       <div className="page-header">
         <div className="space-y-3">
diff --git a/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.test.tsx b/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.test.tsx
index 60621a52..5e5ca755 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.test.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
 import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
 import { MemoryRouter } from "react-router";
 import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
@@ -99,4 +101,44 @@ describe("SettingsLayout", () => {
     expect(markup).toContain("/settings/profiles");
     expect(markup).toContain(">Profiles<");
   });
+
+  it("filters personal settings sections from the search box", async () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/settings/playback"]}>
+        <SettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    await userEvent.type(screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" }), "pin");
+
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("link", { name: /Profiles/ })).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("link", { name: /Playback/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText("1 match")).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("matches individual personal setting labels", async () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/settings/playback"]}>
+        <SettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    await userEvent.type(screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" }), "font family");
+
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("link", { name: /Subtitles/ })).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("link", { name: /Playback/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("focuses personal settings search with Cmd+K", () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/settings/playback"]}>
+        <SettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    const searchBox = screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(document, { key: "k", metaKey: true });
+
+    expect(searchBox).toHaveFocus();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.tsx b/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.tsx
index f7222ffd..ee58c208 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/SettingsLayout.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
 import { Link, Outlet, useLocation } from "react-router";
 import {
   Play,
@@ -19,10 +20,15 @@ import {
 import type { LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
 import PageBack from "@/components/PageBack";
 import { SideNavItem, SideNavSection } from "@/components/SideNav";
+import { SettingsSearchInput } from "@/components/settings/SettingsSearchInput";
 import { useDocumentTitle } from "@/hooks/useDocumentTitle";
 import { useCurrentProfile } from "@/hooks/useCurrentProfile";
 import { useIsActingAdmin } from "@/hooks/useIsActingAdmin";
 import { resolveSettingsDocumentTitle } from "@/lib/documentTitle";
+import {
+  countSettingsSearchItems,
+  filterSettingsSearchGroups,
+} from "@/components/settings/settingsSearch";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 
 interface NavItem {
@@ -30,6 +36,8 @@ interface NavItem {
   label: string;
   icon: LucideIcon;
   description: string;
+  keywords?: readonly string[];
+  settings?: readonly { label: string; description?: string; keywords?: readonly string[] }[];
   primaryOrAdmin?: boolean;
 }
 
@@ -38,6 +46,8 @@ interface NavSection {
   items: NavItem[];
 }
 
+const settingIndex = (...labels: string[]) => labels.map((label) => ({ label }));
+
 const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
   {
     label: "Playback",
@@ -47,12 +57,56 @@ const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
         label: "Playback",
         icon: Play,
         description: "Quality, language, and skipping",
+        keywords: [
+          "video quality",
+          "spoken language",
+          "metadata language",
+          "auto skip",
+          "auto play",
+          "next up",
+          "preview",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Video quality",
+          "Spoken language",
+          "Metadata language",
+          "Auto-skip intros",
+          "Auto-skip credits",
+          "Auto-skip recaps",
+          "Start next at preview",
+          "Auto-play next episode",
+          "Next up episodes",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "subtitle-appearance",
         label: "Subtitles",
         icon: Subtitles,
         description: "Language, behavior, and style",
+        keywords: [
+          "subtitle language",
+          "forced subtitles",
+          "captions",
+          "font size",
+          "font color",
+          "background",
+          "position",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Subtitle language",
+          "Subtitle behavior",
+          "Show forced subtitles",
+          "Preview",
+          "Font size",
+          "Font family",
+          "Font color",
+          "Text outline",
+          "Outline color",
+          "Background style",
+          "Background opacity",
+          "Background color",
+          "Subtitle position",
+        ),
       },
     ],
   },
@@ -64,36 +118,63 @@ const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
         label: "Appearance",
         icon: Palette,
         description: "Theme and interface tone",
+        keywords: ["theme", "profile theme", "dark", "light", "custom theme"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Theme", "Current selection", "Reset to Cinema Dark"),
       },
       {
         path: "theme-editor",
         label: "Theme Editor",
         icon: Wand2,
         description: "Customize colors and CSS",
+        keywords: ["design tokens", "token overrides", "custom css", "community themes"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Preview", "Token Overrides", "Custom CSS", "Community Themes"),
       },
       {
         path: "accessibility",
         label: "Accessibility",
         icon: Eye,
         description: "Readability and contrast",
+        keywords: ["contrast", "readability", "motion", "transparency", "text"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Text size", "Text weight", "Contrast", "High Contrast", "Preview"),
       },
       {
         path: "home-screen",
         label: "Home Screen",
         icon: LayoutDashboard,
         description: "Sections and layout",
+        keywords: ["sections", "rows", "continue watching", "next up", "library order"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Scope",
+          "Sections",
+          "Reset section customizations",
+          "Continue Watching",
+          "Next Up",
+          "Recently Added",
+          "Library order",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "card-overlays",
         label: "Card Overlays",
         icon: Layers,
         description: "Badges on poster cards",
+        keywords: ["poster", "badges", "overlay", "accent color", "preset"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Preview",
+          "Preset",
+          "Accent color",
+          "Show icon",
+          "Position",
+          "How styling works",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "personalize",
         label: "Personalize",
         icon: Sparkles,
         description: "Re-tune your taste profile",
+        keywords: ["taste profile", "recommendations", "ratings", "likes", "dislikes"],
+        settings: settingIndex("Refine your taste profile", "Taste profile", "Recommendations"),
       },
     ],
   },
@@ -105,24 +186,79 @@ const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
         label: "Libraries",
         icon: Library,
         description: "Visibility and access",
+        keywords: [
+          "library visibility",
+          "access",
+          "disabled libraries",
+          "library order",
+          "playback preferences",
+        ],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Remember library pages",
+          "Library visibility",
+          "Library order",
+          "Spoken language",
+          "Subtitle language",
+          "Subtitle behavior",
+          "Forced subtitles",
+          "Playback preferences",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "history-import",
         label: "History Import",
         icon: Clock,
         description: "Emby watch history",
+        keywords: ["emby", "watched history", "import", "mapping", "sync"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "New import",
+          "Import history",
+          "Fetched",
+          "Matched",
+          "Unmatched",
+          "Progress",
+          "History",
+          "Skipped",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "webhook-sync",
         label: "Webhook Sync",
         icon: Server,
         description: "Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin webhook intake",
+        keywords: ["plex", "emby", "jellyfin", "webhook", "progress", "watched"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Add a connection",
+          "Connected servers",
+          "Recent deliveries",
+          "Plex",
+          "Emby",
+          "Jellyfin",
+          "Server URL",
+          "Token",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "watch-providers",
         label: "Watch Providers",
         icon: Cloud,
         description: "Trakt watch history and scrobbling",
+        keywords: ["trakt", "import", "export", "scrobble", "favorites", "watch history"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Last imported",
+          "Last exported",
+          "Watched",
+          "Progress",
+          "Favorites",
+          "Exported",
+          "Import watched history",
+          "Import paused progress",
+          "Send watched changes",
+          "Send unwatched changes",
+          "Sync favorites",
+          "Sync favorite removals",
+          "Scrobble playback",
+        ),
       },
     ],
   },
@@ -134,12 +270,32 @@ const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
         label: "Notifications",
         icon: Bell,
         description: "New-episode alerts and webhooks",
+        keywords: ["new episodes", "email", "discord", "browser push", "webhooks"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "New Episode Notifications",
+          "Email Notifications",
+          "Discord Notifications",
+          "Browser Notifications",
+          "Webhooks",
+          "Per-episode alerts",
+          "Digest",
+          "Webhook URL",
+        ),
       },
       {
         path: "profiles",
         label: "Profiles",
         icon: Users,
         description: "Names, PINs, and access rules",
+        keywords: ["profile name", "pin", "access", "primary profile", "household"],
+        settings: settingIndex(
+          "Profile name",
+          "PIN",
+          "Library access",
+          "Create profile",
+          "Delete profile",
+          "Primary profile",
+        ),
         primaryOrAdmin: true,
       },
     ],
@@ -148,18 +304,35 @@ const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
 
 export default function SettingsLayout() {
   const location = useLocation();
+  const [settingsSearch, setSettingsSearch] = useState("");
   const { profile } = useCurrentProfile();
   const actingAdmin = useIsActingAdmin();
   const segments = location.pathname.split("/");
   const activeSegment = segments[2] || "playback";
   const canManageProfiles = actingAdmin || profile?.is_primary === true;
 
-  const visibleSections = NAV_SECTIONS.map((section) => ({
-    ...section,
-    items: section.items.filter((item) => !item.primaryOrAdmin || canManageProfiles),
-  })).filter((section) => section.items.length > 0);
+  const visibleSections = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      NAV_SECTIONS.map((section) => ({
+        ...section,
+        items: section.items.filter((item) => !item.primaryOrAdmin || canManageProfiles),
+      })).filter((section) => section.items.length > 0),
+    [canManageProfiles],
+  );
 
-  const flatItems = visibleSections.flatMap((section) => section.items);
+  const flatItems = useMemo(
+    () => visibleSections.flatMap((section) => section.items),
+    [visibleSections],
+  );
+  const filteredSections = useMemo(
+    () => filterSettingsSearchGroups(visibleSections, settingsSearch),
+    [settingsSearch, visibleSections],
+  );
+  const filteredFlatItems = useMemo(
+    () => filteredSections.flatMap((section) => section.items),
+    [filteredSections],
+  );
+  const filteredSettingsCount = countSettingsSearchItems(filteredSections);
 
   useDocumentTitle(resolveSettingsDocumentTitle(location.pathname));
 
@@ -174,6 +347,13 @@ export default function SettingsLayout() {
               Manage your playback preferences, libraries, and display options.
             </p>
           </div>
+          <SettingsSearchInput
+            value={settingsSearch}
+            onChange={setSettingsSearch}
+            resultCount={filteredSettingsCount}
+            totalCount={flatItems.length}
+            className="w-full sm:max-w-sm"
+          />
         </div>
 
         {/* Mobile: horizontal scrolling tab bar */}
@@ -189,7 +369,7 @@ export default function SettingsLayout() {
           }}
         >
           <div className="flex min-w-max items-stretch gap-1">
-            {flatItems.map((item) => {
+            {filteredFlatItems.map((item) => {
               const isActive = item.path === activeSegment;
               const Icon = item.icon;
               return (
@@ -209,6 +389,11 @@ export default function SettingsLayout() {
                 </Link>
               );
             })}
+            {filteredFlatItems.length === 0 ? (
+              <p className="text-muted-foreground px-3 py-2.5 text-sm whitespace-nowrap">
+                No matching settings
+              </p>
+            ) : null}
           </div>
         </nav>
 
@@ -216,7 +401,7 @@ export default function SettingsLayout() {
         <div className="mt-8 min-w-0 flex-1 lg:mt-10 lg:flex lg:gap-10">
           <aside className="hidden lg:block lg:w-[220px] lg:shrink-0">
             <nav aria-label="Settings sections" className="sticky top-6 space-y-5 pl-3">
-              {visibleSections.map((section) => (
+              {filteredSections.map((section) => (
                 <SideNavSection key={section.label} label={section.label} idPrefix="settings-nav">
                   {section.items.map((item) => (
                     <SideNavItem
@@ -229,6 +414,9 @@ export default function SettingsLayout() {
                   ))}
                 </SideNavSection>
               ))}
+              {filteredSections.length === 0 ? (
+                <p className="text-muted-foreground px-2 text-sm">No matching settings</p>
+              ) : null}
             </nav>
           </aside>
 
diff --git a/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.test.tsx b/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.test.tsx
index 461e4a07..d640ea6f 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.test.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
 import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
 import { MemoryRouter } from "react-router";
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
@@ -37,10 +39,12 @@ describe("AdminSettingsLayout", () => {
       "Scanner &amp; Matcher",
       "Intro Markers",
       "Subtitles",
+      "AI Services",
       "Playback",
       "Downloads",
       "Watch Providers",
       "Integrations",
+      "Email",
       "Notifications",
       "Compatibility Proxies",
       "Rate Limiting",
@@ -65,4 +69,47 @@ describe("AdminSettingsLayout", () => {
 
     expect(withAlias).toBe(direct);
   });
+
+  it("filters admin settings sections from the search box", async () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/admin/settings"]}>
+        <AdminSettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    await userEvent.type(screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" }), "redis");
+
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("button", { name: /Database/ })).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: /Playback/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText("1 match")).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("matches individual admin setting labels", async () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/admin/settings"]}>
+        <AdminSettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    await userEvent.type(
+      screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" }),
+      "pool max open",
+    );
+
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("button", { name: /Database/ })).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: /General/ })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("focuses admin settings search with Cmd+K", () => {
+    render(
+      <MemoryRouter initialEntries={["/admin/settings"]}>
+        <AdminSettingsLayout />
+      </MemoryRouter>,
+    );
+
+    const searchBox = screen.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search settings" });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(document, { key: "k", metaKey: true });
+
+    expect(searchBox).toHaveFocus();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.tsx b/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.tsx
index 2ff14308..13e8c868 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/admin-settings/AdminSettingsLayout.tsx
@@ -1,27 +1,17 @@
+import { useMemo, useState, type ComponentType } from "react";
 import { useSearchParams } from "react-router";
-import {
-  Settings2,
-  Captions,
-  Cloud,
-  PlayCircle,
-  ScanSearch,
-  Gauge,
-  Download,
-  Puzzle,
-  Network,
-  Database,
-  HardDrive,
-  ScrollText,
-  Paintbrush,
-  Layers,
-  Subtitles,
-  Sparkles,
-  Mail,
-  Bell,
-} from "lucide-react";
-import type { LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
 
 import { SideNavItem, SideNavSection } from "@/components/SideNav";
+import { SettingsSearchInput } from "@/components/settings/SettingsSearchInput";
+import {
+  countSettingsSearchItems,
+  filterSettingsSearchGroups,
+} from "@/components/settings/settingsSearch";
+import {
+  ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS,
+  ADMIN_SETTINGS_NAV,
+  type AdminSettingsSearchItem,
+} from "@/lib/adminSettingsSearch";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 
 import EmailSettings from "./EmailSettings";
@@ -43,11 +33,8 @@ import LogRetentionSettings from "./LogRetentionSettings";
 import ThemeSettings from "./ThemeSettings";
 import OverlaySettings from "./OverlaySettings";
 
-interface SettingsNav {
-  id: string;
-  label: string;
-  icon: LucideIcon;
-  component: React.ComponentType;
+interface SettingsNav extends AdminSettingsSearchItem {
+  component: ComponentType;
 }
 
 interface SettingsNavGroup {
@@ -55,75 +42,59 @@ interface SettingsNavGroup {
   items: SettingsNav[];
 }
 
-// Tab ids are stable URL state (?tab=...) — regroup or reorder freely, but
-// renaming an id breaks bookmarks and deep links.
-const SETTINGS_GROUPS: SettingsNavGroup[] = [
-  {
-    label: "Server",
-    items: [
-      { id: "general", label: "General", icon: Settings2, component: GeneralSettings },
-      { id: "theming", label: "Theming", icon: Paintbrush, component: ThemeSettings },
-      { id: "overlays", label: "Card Overlays", icon: Layers, component: OverlaySettings },
-    ],
-  },
-  {
-    label: "Media",
-    items: [
-      { id: "scanner", label: "Scanner & Matcher", icon: ScanSearch, component: ScannerSettings },
-      { id: "intro", label: "Intro Markers", icon: Captions, component: IntroSettings },
-      { id: "subtitles", label: "Subtitles", icon: Subtitles, component: SubtitlesSettings },
-      { id: "ai", label: "AI Services", icon: Sparkles, component: AIServicesSettings },
-      { id: "playback", label: "Playback", icon: PlayCircle, component: PlaybackSettings },
-      { id: "downloads", label: "Downloads", icon: Download, component: DownloadSettings },
-    ],
-  },
-  {
-    label: "Connections",
-    items: [
-      {
-        id: "watch-providers",
-        label: "Watch Providers",
-        icon: Cloud,
-        component: WatchProvidersSettings,
-      },
-      { id: "integrations", label: "Integrations", icon: Puzzle, component: IntegrationsSettings },
-      { id: "email", label: "Email", icon: Mail, component: EmailSettings },
-      {
-        id: "notifications",
-        label: "Notifications",
-        icon: Bell,
-        component: NotificationsAdminSettings,
-      },
-      {
-        id: "compatibility-proxies",
-        label: "Compatibility Proxies",
-        icon: Network,
-        component: CompatibilityProxiesSettings,
-      },
-      { id: "rate-limiting", label: "Rate Limiting", icon: Gauge, component: RateLimitSettings },
-    ],
-  },
-  {
-    label: "Data",
-    items: [
-      { id: "database", label: "Database", icon: Database, component: DatabaseSettings },
-      { id: "storage", label: "Storage", icon: HardDrive, component: StorageSettings },
-      {
-        id: "log-retention",
-        label: "Log Retention",
-        icon: ScrollText,
-        component: LogRetentionSettings,
-      },
-    ],
-  },
-];
+const SETTINGS_COMPONENTS: Record<string, ComponentType> = {
+  general: GeneralSettings,
+  theming: ThemeSettings,
+  overlays: OverlaySettings,
+  scanner: ScannerSettings,
+  intro: IntroSettings,
+  subtitles: SubtitlesSettings,
+  ai: AIServicesSettings,
+  playback: PlaybackSettings,
+  downloads: DownloadSettings,
+  "watch-providers": WatchProvidersSettings,
+  integrations: IntegrationsSettings,
+  email: EmailSettings,
+  notifications: NotificationsAdminSettings,
+  "compatibility-proxies": CompatibilityProxiesSettings,
+  "rate-limiting": RateLimitSettings,
+  database: DatabaseSettings,
+  storage: StorageSettings,
+  "log-retention": LogRetentionSettings,
+};
 
-const SETTINGS_NAV: SettingsNav[] = SETTINGS_GROUPS.flatMap((group) => group.items);
+function settingsComponent(id: string) {
+  const component = SETTINGS_COMPONENTS[id];
+  if (!component) {
+    throw new Error(`Missing admin settings component for ${id}`);
+  }
+  return component;
+}
+
+const SETTINGS_GROUPS: SettingsNavGroup[] = ADMIN_SETTINGS_GROUPS.map((group) => ({
+  ...group,
+  items: group.items.map((item) => ({ ...item, component: settingsComponent(item.id) })),
+}));
+
+const SETTINGS_NAV: SettingsNav[] = ADMIN_SETTINGS_NAV.map((item) => ({
+  ...item,
+  component: settingsComponent(item.id),
+}));
 
 export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
   const [searchParams, setSearchParams] = useSearchParams();
+  const [settingsSearch, setSettingsSearch] = useState("");
   const rawActiveId = searchParams.get("tab") || "general";
   const activeId = rawActiveId === "jellyfin" ? "compatibility-proxies" : rawActiveId;
+  const filteredSettingsGroups = useMemo(
+    () => filterSettingsSearchGroups(SETTINGS_GROUPS, settingsSearch),
+    [settingsSearch],
+  );
+  const filteredSettingsNav = useMemo(
+    () => filteredSettingsGroups.flatMap((group) => group.items),
+    [filteredSettingsGroups],
+  );
+  const filteredSettingsCount = countSettingsSearchItems(filteredSettingsGroups);
 
   function setActiveId(id: string) {
     setSearchParams({ tab: id }, { replace: true });
@@ -133,11 +104,20 @@ export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-6">
-      <div className="space-y-3">
-        <h1 className="page-title text-[clamp(2rem,4vw,3rem)]">Settings</h1>
-        <p className="page-subtitle text-sm sm:text-base">
-          Configure server-wide settings. Most changes require a server restart to take effect.
-        </p>
+      <div className="page-header gap-5">
+        <div className="min-w-0 space-y-3">
+          <h1 className="page-title text-[clamp(2rem,4vw,3rem)]">Settings</h1>
+          <p className="page-subtitle text-sm sm:text-base">
+            Configure server-wide settings. Most changes require a server restart to take effect.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+        <SettingsSearchInput
+          value={settingsSearch}
+          onChange={setSettingsSearch}
+          resultCount={filteredSettingsCount}
+          totalCount={SETTINGS_NAV.length}
+          className="w-full sm:max-w-sm"
+        />
       </div>
 
       <div className="surface-panel flex min-h-[500px] flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-[1.8rem] border-0 lg:flex-row">
@@ -148,7 +128,7 @@ export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
           style={{ WebkitOverflowScrolling: "touch" }}
         >
           <div className="flex min-w-max items-stretch gap-1">
-            {SETTINGS_NAV.map((item) => {
+            {filteredSettingsNav.map((item) => {
               const isActive = item.id === active.id;
               return (
                 <button
@@ -168,6 +148,11 @@ export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
                 </button>
               );
             })}
+            {filteredSettingsNav.length === 0 ? (
+              <p className="text-muted-foreground px-3 py-2.5 text-sm whitespace-nowrap">
+                No matching settings
+              </p>
+            ) : null}
           </div>
         </nav>
 
@@ -176,7 +161,7 @@ export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
           aria-label="Admin settings sections"
           className="border-border hidden space-y-5 border-r px-3 py-4 lg:block lg:w-60 lg:flex-shrink-0"
         >
-          {SETTINGS_GROUPS.map((group) => (
+          {filteredSettingsGroups.map((group) => (
             <SideNavSection key={group.label} label={group.label} idPrefix="admin-settings-nav">
               {group.items.map((item) => (
                 <SideNavItem
@@ -189,6 +174,9 @@ export default function AdminSettingsLayout() {
               ))}
             </SideNavSection>
           ))}
+          {filteredSettingsGroups.length === 0 ? (
+            <p className="text-muted-foreground px-2 text-sm">No matching settings</p>
+          ) : null}
         </nav>
 
         {/* Content area */}