diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Plugins/TagNav.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Plugins/TagNav.tsx
index 10551806..ef8d1bbd 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Plugins/TagNav.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Plugins/TagNav.tsx
@@ -32,14 +32,31 @@ const TAG_ICONS: Record<string, string> = {
   Fun: 'Gamepad2',
 };
 
-const ROW = 'flex items-center gap-2.5 rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-sm transition-colors w-full text-left';
+/*
+  The house section-nav row, taken from `fofos-admin/web/NavPanel.tsx`.
+
+  Three things carry the look, and each is doing a job:
+
+  `border-b border-border` — the SEPARATION. Gapped pills read as a floating list where the boundary
+  between one item and the next is guesswork; a ruled edge says where a row ends.
+
+  The label is NOT muted. It was `text-duck-dark/70`, so every row whispered and the eye had nothing to
+  land on. The muting moves to the line BELOW it, where a count is genuinely secondary.
+
+  Active is `bg-muted` — a filled row rather than a tinted label. Colour on the text was carrying both
+  "this is a link" and "this one is selected", which is why nothing looked selected.
+*/
+const rowClass = (active: boolean) =>
+  `flex w-full items-start gap-2.5 border-b border-border px-3 py-2.5 text-left transition-colors ${
+    active ? 'bg-muted' : 'hover:bg-muted/50'
+  }`;
 
 export const TagNav = () => {
   const { plugins, available, broken, orphans, isLoading, updateAll, updatingAll } = usePlugins();
   const [params] = useSearchParams();
   const active = params.get('tag');
 
-  if (isLoading) return <div className="p-4 text-sm text-duck-dark/50">Loading…</div>;
+  if (isLoading) return <div className="p-4 text-sm text-muted-foreground">Loading…</div>;
 
   // Counted over everything the grid can show — installed and available together — so a number here
   // always matches what clicking it produces.
@@ -65,61 +82,58 @@ export const TagNav = () => {
     return { search: `?${next}` };
   };
 
+  /** One row: icon, a label that is actually legible, and what it holds underneath. */
+  const row = (
+    key: string,
+    to: ReturnType<typeof link>,
+    Icon: typeof Package,
+    label: string,
+    n: number,
+    on: boolean,
+  ) => (
+    <Link key={key} to={to} className={rowClass(on)}>
+      <Icon className="mt-0.5 size-4 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" />
+      <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
+        <span className="block truncate text-sm">{label}</span>
+        {/* The count moves here from the right-hand column. It was a number floating at the edge at 60%
+            opacity, which is where the eye goes last; as the row's second line it is read WITH the label
+            rather than hunted for. */}
+        <span className="block truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground tabular-nums">
+          {n} plugin{n === 1 ? '' : 's'}
+        </span>
+      </span>
+    </Link>
+  );
+
   return (
     <nav className="flex h-full flex-col overflow-auto">
-      <div className="flex flex-col gap-0.5 p-2">
-        <Link
-          to={link(null)}
-          className={`${ROW} ${!active ? 'bg-duck-teal/10 font-medium text-duck-teal' : 'text-duck-dark/70 hover:bg-duck-dark/5'}`}
-        >
-          <Package className="size-4 shrink-0" />
-          <span className="flex-1">All</span>
-          <span className="text-xs tabular-nums opacity-60">{all.length}</span>
-        </Link>
-
-        {ordered.map(([tag, n]) => {
-          const Icon = resolveIcon(TAG_ICONS[tag] ?? 'Puzzle');
-          return (
-            <Link
-              key={tag}
-              to={link(tag)}
-              className={`${ROW} ${active === tag ? 'bg-duck-teal/10 font-medium text-duck-teal' : 'text-duck-dark/70 hover:bg-duck-dark/5'}`}
-            >
-              <Icon className="size-4 shrink-0" />
-              <span className="flex-1 truncate">{tag}</span>
-              <span className="text-xs tabular-nums opacity-60">{n}</span>
-            </Link>
-          );
-        })}
+      <div className="flex flex-col">
+        {row('__all', link(null), Package, 'All', all.length, !active)}
+        {ordered.map(([tag, n]) =>
+          row(tag, link(tag), resolveIcon(TAG_ICONS[tag] ?? 'Puzzle'), tag, n, active === tag),
+        )}
 
         {/* Shown only when there are any. A plugin with no tags is reachable from All but from no filter,
             and that is worth being able to SEE rather than discovering by its absence. */}
-        {untagged > 0 && (
-          <Link
-            to={link('__untagged')}
-            className={`${ROW} ${active === '__untagged' ? 'bg-duck-teal/10 font-medium text-duck-teal' : 'text-duck-dark/50 hover:bg-duck-dark/5'}`}
-          >
-            <Puzzle className="size-4 shrink-0" />
-            <span className="flex-1 truncate">Untagged</span>
-            <span className="text-xs tabular-nums opacity-60">{untagged}</span>
-          </Link>
-        )}
+        {untagged > 0 && row('__untagged', link('__untagged'), Puzzle, 'Untagged', untagged, active === '__untagged')}
       </div>
 
-      <div className="mt-auto flex flex-col gap-1 border-t border-duck-dark/5 p-2 text-xs">
+      {/* Below the rows, and separated by the same border they use — these are facts about the store
+          rather than filters you can click, so they must not look like another section. */}
+      <div className="mt-auto flex flex-col gap-1 border-t border-border p-3 text-xs">
         {/* Update-all belongs here rather than in a plugin's detail: it is the one action about all of
             them at once. Hidden when nothing is installed, where it would read as a broken button. */}
         {plugins.length > 0 && (
           <button
             onClick={() => updateAll()}
             disabled={updatingAll}
-            className="rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-left text-duck-dark/60 hover:bg-duck-dark/5 disabled:opacity-50"
+            className="rounded-md px-2 py-1.5 text-left transition-colors hover:bg-muted/50 disabled:opacity-50"
           >
             {updatingAll ? 'Updating…' : 'Update all'}
           </button>
         )}
         {broken.length > 0 && (
-          <div className="flex items-start gap-2 px-3 py-1.5 text-busy-ink">
+          <div className="flex items-start gap-2 px-2 py-1.5 text-busy-ink">
             <AlertTriangle className="mt-0.5 size-3.5 shrink-0" />
             <span>
               {broken.length} broken plugin{broken.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}
@@ -127,7 +141,7 @@ export const TagNav = () => {
           </div>
         )}
         {orphans.length > 0 && (
-          <div className="flex items-start gap-2 px-3 py-1.5 text-duck-dark/50">
+          <div className="flex items-start gap-2 px-2 py-1.5 text-muted-foreground">
             <Database className="mt-0.5 size-3.5 shrink-0" />
             <span>
               {orphans.length} orphaned table{orphans.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} from removed plugins