diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 0cb8ef56..94927408 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -230,9 +230,16 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     'those live here, in your own directory. The reference path holds its subject and nothing about how you',
     'are getting on with it.',
     '',
-    'Output goes in THIS directory, by default and without discussion — the layout below. Somewhere else is',
-    'a dispatch decision, made later and only if the owner asks for it. Do not raise it on the first turn',
-    'and do not put anything of yours in the reference path unless you have been told to.',
+    'Everything an action produces goes in THIS directory, by default and without discussion. Make a',
+    'directory here for it — the layout below — and put the results there. Anywhere else is a dispatch',
+    'decision, made later and only because the owner asked for it. Do not raise it on the first turn.',
+    '',
+    '**That holds even when the action itself writes somewhere else.** A platform task decides where it',
+    'puts its own output, and a task built for a person clicking a file will often leave the result beside',
+    'that file. That is right for the person and wrong for you: it puts your work in the middle of the',
+    'thing you are watching, where the owner did not ask for it and where your next pass has to tell your',
+    'own output apart from your subject. When an action leaves its result outside this directory, MOVE it',
+    'here. Every time, without asking.',
     '',
     '**A spawned agent follows a FILE, not a prompt.** Put the rules in `procedures/<something>.md` here and',
     'point the agent at it. When the rule changes you edit one document; a prompt baked into a loop is a',