diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/sidebar-agent-list.tsx b/packages/app/src/components/sidebar-agent-list.tsx
index 2b0d955ae..95722a295 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/sidebar-agent-list.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/sidebar-agent-list.tsx
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ const styles = StyleSheet.create((theme) => ({
     marginBottom: theme.spacing[1],
   },
   agentItemUnselected: {
-    opacity: 0.75,
+    opacity: 1,
   },
   agentItemSelected: {
     backgroundColor: theme.colors.surface2,
diff --git a/packages/server/scripts/dev-runner.ts b/packages/server/scripts/dev-runner.ts
index 91a7d1526..1f303a1f9 100644
--- a/packages/server/scripts/dev-runner.ts
+++ b/packages/server/scripts/dev-runner.ts
@@ -2,35 +2,19 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
 import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 import { runSupervisor } from "./supervisor.js";
 
-function resolveWorkerEntry(): string {
-  const candidates = [
-    fileURLToPath(new URL("../server/server/index.js", import.meta.url)),
-    fileURLToPath(new URL("../dist/server/server/index.js", import.meta.url)),
-    fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server/index.ts", import.meta.url)),
-    fileURLToPath(new URL("../../src/server/index.ts", import.meta.url)),
-  ];
-
-  for (const candidate of candidates) {
-    if (existsSync(candidate)) {
-      return candidate;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return candidates[0];
-}
-
-function resolveWorkerExecArgv(): string[] {
-  const workerEntry = resolveWorkerEntry();
-  return workerEntry.endsWith(".ts") ? ["--import", "tsx"] : [];
+const WORKER_ENTRY = fileURLToPath(new URL("../src/server/index.ts", import.meta.url));
+if (!existsSync(WORKER_ENTRY)) {
+  throw new Error(`Dev worker entry not found: ${WORKER_ENTRY}`);
 }
 
 runSupervisor({
   name: "DevRunner",
   startupMessage: "Starting server worker (crash restarts enabled)",
-  resolveWorkerEntry,
+  resolveWorkerEntry: () => WORKER_ENTRY,
   workerArgs: process.argv.slice(2),
   workerEnv: process.env,
-  workerExecArgv: resolveWorkerExecArgv(),
+  // Always run worker with tsx so dev server uses TypeScript sources directly.
+  workerExecArgv: ["--import", "tsx"],
   restartOnCrash: true,
   shutdownReasons: ["cli_shutdown"],
 });
diff --git a/packages/server/src/server/speech/providers/local/sherpa/sherpa-tts.ts b/packages/server/src/server/speech/providers/local/sherpa/sherpa-tts.ts
index 8c05461b8..365a88fa1 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/server/speech/providers/local/sherpa/sherpa-tts.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/server/speech/providers/local/sherpa/sherpa-tts.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 
 import type { SpeechStreamResult, TextToSpeechProvider } from "../../../speech-provider.js";
 import { chunkBuffer, float32ToPcm16le } from "../../../audio.js";
-import { loadSherpaOnnx } from "./sherpa-onnx-loader.js";
+import { loadSherpaOnnxNode } from "./sherpa-onnx-node-loader.js";
 
 export type SherpaTtsPreset = "kokoro-en-v0_19" | "kitten-nano-en-v0_1-fp16";
 
@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ export class SherpaOnnxTTS implements TextToSpeechProvider {
     this.speakerId = config.speakerId ?? 0;
     this.speed = config.speed ?? 1.0;
 
-    const sherpa = loadSherpaOnnx();
+    const sherpa = loadSherpaOnnxNode();
+    if (typeof sherpa.OfflineTts !== "function") {
+      throw new Error("sherpa-onnx-node OfflineTts is unavailable");
+    }
 
     const modelFile = config.preset === "kokoro-en-v0_19" ? "model.onnx" : "model.fp16.onnx";
     const modelPath = `${config.modelDir}/${modelFile}`;
@@ -50,30 +53,35 @@ export class SherpaOnnxTTS implements TextToSpeechProvider {
     assertFileExists(tokensPath, "TTS tokens");
     assertFileExists(dataDir, "TTS espeak-ng dataDir");
 
-    const modelConfigKey =
+    const modelConfig =
       config.preset === "kokoro-en-v0_19"
-        ? "offlineTtsKokoroModelConfig"
-        : "offlineTtsKittenModelConfig";
-
-    const modelConfig = {
-      [modelConfigKey]: {
-        model: modelPath,
-        voices: voicesPath,
-        tokens: tokensPath,
-        dataDir,
-        lengthScale: config.lengthScale ?? 1.0,
-      },
-      numThreads: config.numThreads ?? 2,
-      debug: 0,
-      provider: "cpu",
-    };
+        ? {
+            kokoro: {
+              model: modelPath,
+              voices: voicesPath,
+              tokens: tokensPath,
+              dataDir,
+              lengthScale: config.lengthScale ?? 1.0,
+            },
+          }
+        : {
+            kitten: {
+              model: modelPath,
+              voices: voicesPath,
+              tokens: tokensPath,
+              dataDir,
+              lengthScale: config.lengthScale ?? 1.0,
+            },
+          };
 
     const offlineTtsConfig = {
-      offlineTtsModelConfig: modelConfig,
+      model: modelConfig,
+      numThreads: config.numThreads ?? 2,
+      provider: "cpu",
       maxNumSentences: 1,
     };
 
-    this.tts = sherpa.createOfflineTts(offlineTtsConfig);
+    this.tts = new sherpa.OfflineTts(offlineTtsConfig);
     this.logger.info({ preset: config.preset, modelDir: config.modelDir }, "Sherpa offline TTS initialized");
   }