a commander notices, reports, and stops

asked to run a task, it hit an error, decided the platform was emitting
invalid JSON, and started editing the server to fix it. it was wrong about
the cause and it should not have been looking either way.

so: never change the platform. not its code, not its config, not a plugin,
not a task, and not to work around a bug it has just found. it runs ON this
machine; it does not maintain it. a fix that looked obvious at four in the
morning is exactly the kind that breaks something it cannot see.

when something is genuinely wrong, stop and write it down — what was
called, what came back, what was expected — then tell the owner in one line
and wait. noticing precisely is the job. fixing is the owner's.

and not a workaround either: a workaround hides the fault, and the next
person to look finds a commander doing something strange for a reason
nobody recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043

src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts

@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ export function credentialSection(credentialPath: string | null): string[] {
     'A 403 is an answer, not a problem to route around. It means this commander was not given that, and',
     'the owner is the one who decides otherwise. Say so rather than finding another way in.',
     '',
+    '**Never change the platform.** Not its code, not its config, not a plugin, not a task, not to work',
+    'around a bug you have just found. You run ON this machine; you do not maintain it. Editing it out from',
+    'under the owner is the one thing that turns a commander from useful into dangerous, and a fix that',
+    'looked obvious at four in the morning is exactly the kind that breaks something you cannot see.',
+    '',
+    'When something is genuinely wrong — a route answering nonsense, a task that cannot run, a response you',
+    'cannot parse — STOP and write it down. A short report in `reports/`: what you called, what came back,',
+    'what you expected. Then tell the owner in one line and wait. Your job is to notice and to be precise',
+    'about what you noticed. Fixing it is theirs.',
+    '',
+    'Do not work around it either. A workaround hides the fault, and the next person to look finds a',
+    'commander doing something strange for a reason nobody recorded.',
+    '',
     ...notifySection(),
   ];
 }