diff --git a/hive-c0re/assets/app.js b/hive-c0re/assets/app.js
index 02a0f71..06f5e10 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/assets/app.js
+++ b/hive-c0re/assets/app.js
@@ -1143,14 +1143,15 @@
       fd.append('body', body);
       input.disabled = true;
       try {
+        // /op-send now returns 200 (no more 303-to-/). The SSE channel
+        // carries the resulting MessageEvent → the terminal renders the
+        // sent row + the inbox updates on its own; no /api/state
+        // refetch needed.
         const resp = await fetch('/op-send', {
           method: 'POST',
           body: new URLSearchParams(fd),
-          redirect: 'manual',
         });
-        const ok = resp.ok || resp.type === 'opaqueredirect'
-          || (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 400);
-        if (!ok) {
+        if (!resp.ok) {
           flashError(`send failed: http ${resp.status}`);
           return;
         }
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/dashboard.rs b/hive-c0re/src/dashboard.rs
index 90880b5..4e78acd 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/dashboard.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/dashboard.rs
@@ -1141,7 +1141,13 @@ async fn post_op_send(State(state): State<AppState>, Form(form): Form<OpSendForm
     }) {
         return error_response(&format!("op-send to {to} failed: {e:#}"));
     }
-    Redirect::to("/").into_response()
+    // 200 instead of 303 → the client doesn't refetch /api/state. The
+    // broker `send` already emitted a `MessageEvent` which the
+    // dashboard channel forwarder mirrors as `DashboardEvent::Sent`,
+    // and the page's terminal + inbox derive from that stream — so the
+    // operator's send shows up the same way an agent's send does, with
+    // no full-state refresh in between.
+    (axum::http::StatusCode::OK, "ok").into_response()
 }
 
 async fn post_request_spawn(