diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 95208196..7ebeca1d 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/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(),
   ];
 }