diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/ChatHistory/SessionList.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/ChatHistory/SessionList.tsx
index b93c4d5c..63a2d13f 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/ChatHistory/SessionList.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/ChatHistory/SessionList.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import { useChatPwds, useClaudeSessions } from 'state/useClaudeSessions';
 import type { LiveSession } from 'state/useLiveSessions';
 import { useLiveSessions } from 'state/useLiveSessions';
 import { useSelectedChatSession } from '../../channels';
-import { commandHqSessionPath } from '../CommandHQ/command-hq-routes';
 import { chatNewPath, chatSessionPath, cwdFromSplat } from './chat-routes';
 import { DirPickerModal } from './DirPickerModal';
 import { LiveMarker, SessionRow, shortenPath, useScrollActiveIntoView, useSessionRowActions } from './SessionRow';
@@ -368,16 +367,17 @@ const LiveView = ({ activeId, home }: { activeId?: string; home: string | null }
  */
 const LiveRow = ({ session, activeId, home }: { session: LiveSession; activeId?: string; home: string | null }) => {
   const transcriptId = session.claudeSessionId;
-  // A commander opens in Command HQ. `/chat/<id>` would render the same transcript with none of what makes
-  // it a commander legible — no category, no cost, no watcher state, and no way to disarm it.
-  const to = transcriptId
-    ? session.isCommander
-      ? commandHqSessionPath(transcriptId, undefined)
-      : chatSessionPath(transcriptId)
-    : undefined;
+  // A commander opens HERE, in /chat, like any other row.
+  //
+  // This briefly linked to Command HQ, on the argument that /chat renders the transcript without the
+  // category, cost, watcher state or the disarm control. That argument loses to a simpler one: sending
+  // somebody out of the screen they are reading, into a different route with a different layout, is a
+  // bigger loss than the metadata they did not ask for. A commander IS a chat — the same harness, the same
+  // transcript, resumable by the same route. Command HQ is where you go to MANAGE one, which is a separate
+  // errand from reading what it just said.
   return (
     <DataRow
-      to={to}
+      to={transcriptId ? chatSessionPath(transcriptId) : undefined}
       title={session.title ?? 'Starting…'}
       selected={!!transcriptId && transcriptId === activeId}
       meta={[