diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
index 3979a951..c9bfca0b 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
@@ -79,12 +79,15 @@ const NewCommanderGuide = () => (
  * before asking anything at all, all live in the Commanders skill — which is re-read from disk every run, so
  * it can be reworded without a deploy. Duplicating any of it here would create a second copy to drift.
  */
-const START_BRIEF = [
-  'I have given you a name and a working directory. I have not told you what I want yet — that is what this',
-  'conversation is for, and I would rather answer your questions than write a specification up front.',
-  '',
-  'Orient yourself here first, then ask me one question.',
-].join('\n');
+const startBrief = (name: string): string =>
+  [
+    `You have been named "${name}", and that is the only thing I have told you about what I want.`,
+    'It is not decoration — I chose it before anything else, so treat it as the subject and read this',
+    'directory looking for what it refers to.',
+    '',
+    'I have not said more than that on purpose. I would rather answer your questions than write a',
+    'specification up front, so orient yourself first and then ask me one.',
+  ].join('\n');
 
 const StartCommanderButton = ({ ready, blockedBy, onStart }: StartCommanderButtonProps) => (
   <div className="shrink-0 border-b border-border px-5 py-4">
@@ -243,7 +246,10 @@ function NewCommander({
   const qc = useQueryClient();
   useEffect(() => {
     if (wasGenerating.current && !chat.isGenerating) {
+      // Both shapes, not just the grid: the header reads the per-commander query and went stale the same
+      // way, so the first attempt at this fixed the pill and left the title beside it still wrong.
       qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['command-hq', 'commanders'] });
+      qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['command-hq', 'commander'] });
     }
     wasGenerating.current = chat.isGenerating;
   }, [chat.isGenerating, qc]);
@@ -305,7 +311,7 @@ function NewCommander({
             onStart={() =>
               // Positional, and the shape is why `opts` was added rather than a tenth slot: displayText is #7.
               chat.sendPrompt(
-                START_BRIEF,
+                startBrief(name.trim()),
                 undefined,
                 undefined,
                 cwd ? { path: cwd } : undefined,