Error: [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME] when running pnpm dev on Windows

[AngeloGiacco]

I get this when running pnpm dev in /agent on Windows

PS C:\Users\Angelo\Documents\Programming\poppa\poppa-playground\agent> pnpm dev

> [email protected] dev C:\Users\Angelo\Documents\Programming\poppa\poppa-playground\agent
> pnpm exec tsx playground_agent.ts dev

[17:20:35.453] INFO (34644): starting worker
    version: "0.1.0"
[17:20:35.507] INFO (34644): Server is listening on port 60154
[17:20:35.583] INFO (34644): registered worker
    version: "0.1.0"
    id: "AW_Qk9DxTbxeVPk"
    server_info: {
      "edition": "Cloud",
      "version": "1.8.0",
      "protocol": 15,
      "region": "UK",
      "nodeId": "NC_OLONDON1B_uf6yMDvJHokS",
      "agentProtocol": 0
    }

node:internal/modules/run_main:115
    triggerUncaughtException(
    ^
Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME]: Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default 
ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'c:'
    at throwIfUnsupportedURLScheme (node:internal/modules/esm/load:239:11)
    at defaultLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/load:120:3)
    at nextLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:746:28)
    at load (file:///C:/Users/Angelo/Documents/Programming/poppa/poppa-playground/agent/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs?1730136035684:2:1768)
    at nextLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:746:28)
    at Hooks.load (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:383:26)
    at handleMessage (node:internal/modules/esm/worker:199:24)
    at Immediate.checkForMessages (node:internal/modules/esm/worker:141:28)
    at process.processImmediate (node:internal/timers:483:21) {
  code: 'ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME'
}

pnpm version = 9.12.2
node version = 22.5.1

any ideas?