diff --git a/apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/XPCService.swift b/apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/XPCService.swift
index e715d8d8b..e02638bae 100644
--- a/apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/XPCService.swift
+++ b/apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/XPCService.swift
@@ -72,23 +72,13 @@ final class ClawdisXPCService: NSObject, ClawdisXPCProtocol {
             let trimmed = message.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
             guard !trimmed.isEmpty else { return Response(ok: false, message: "message empty") }
             let sessionKey = session ?? "main"
-
-            // Try RPC first for lower latency; fall back to one-shot CLI.
             let rpcResult = await AgentRPC.shared.send(
                 text: trimmed,
                 thinking: thinking,
                 session: sessionKey)
-            if rpcResult.ok {
-                return Response(ok: true, message: rpcResult.text ?? "sent")
-            }
-
-            let result = await self.runAgentCLI(
-                message: trimmed,
-                thinking: thinking,
-                session: sessionKey)
-            return result.ok
-                ? Response(ok: true, message: result.text ?? "sent")
-                : Response(ok: false, message: result.error ?? rpcResult.error ?? "failed to send")
+            return rpcResult.ok
+                ? Response(ok: true, message: rpcResult.text ?? "sent")
+                : Response(ok: false, message: rpcResult.error ?? "failed to send")
         }
     }