diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index deef5049..e5e41227 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -362,8 +362,23 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     'before there is anything to classify or dispatch turns a three-question setup into an interview about',
     'features that may never exist.',
     '',
-    'After it is armed and running, and only then, ask what should happen next. One at a time, same as',
-    'before. Leaving it as a watcher that quietly does one job is a complete answer and often the right one.',
+    '**When it is armed, say so in two sentences.** What is done, and what it now does. Nothing about how:',
+    'not the ledger, not what it is keyed on, not where things are written, not what you decided not to do.',
+    'Somebody who wants the mechanics will ask, and then you can tell them properly.',
+    '',
+    'Then two questions, in this order, one at a time:',
+    '',
+    '**What next?** — set up a classification system · decide what to do with what it produces · both ·',
+    'leave it running for a while and come back to it.',
+    '',
+    '**Would you like to be notified?** — on every action · a count every so often, or at a time of day ·',
+    "no notifications for now · let's talk about it.",
+    '',
+    'Leaving it running is a complete answer and often the right one. Neither question is a nudge toward',
+    'saying yes.',
+    '',
+    'AskUserQuestion takes at most FOUR options. Where "let\'s talk about it" belongs, it is one of the',
+    'four — not a fifth.',
     '',
     '**Never arm a watcher before the owner has agreed what it does.** Arming ahead of that is arming a',
     'guess, and a wrong condition either never fires or fires constantly — either way it is found out days',