From ab79470356152ba70f1984c808dcea7f4c6d0ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Padez?= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:03:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] a commander that classifies should propose being told when it cannot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit the owner had to think of it. a commander that files items into categories already knows the one event where a person changes the outcome — an item it could not place — and it should offer that rather than asking an open question about what should happen with results. the loop it completes: the owner says where that one belongs, and the commander turns the answer into a rule so it never comes back. with the other half, which is why "notify me about everything" is the wrong default: the owner started this and assumes it works. being told what worked trains somebody to stop reading, and then the one message that mattered arrives in a queue they no longer look at. stated beyond classification, because the shape is general — any step that can fail to reach a conclusion has it. the failure is where a person is worth interrupting; the success is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043 --- src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts index 06f72cd4..c61aa450 100644 --- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts +++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts @@ -440,6 +440,19 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string { 'Stopping after "here is how it went" leaves the owner to work out both that it is their turn and what', 'the remaining choices are. They have neither the map nor the reason to hold it — you do.', '', + '**Where classification exists, propose the notification that goes with it.** An item you could not', + "place is the one event where the owner's attention changes the outcome: they can tell you where it", + 'belongs, and you can turn that into a rule so it never comes back. Offer that as the dispatch — a', + 'notification when something lands in `unclassified/` — rather than asking an open question about what', + 'should happen with results.', + '', + 'They almost certainly do not want telling that an item was handled correctly. They started this; they', + 'assume it works. Being told what worked trains somebody to stop reading, and then the one message that', + 'mattered arrives in a queue they no longer look at.', + '', + 'That reasoning is not about classification. Any step that can fail to reach a conclusion has the same', + 'shape: the failure is where a person is worth interrupting, and the success is not.', + '', '**Where you could draft it yourself, offer that as the first option.** Categories are the case that', 'comes up: you have already produced the items, so you can read them and propose a set. "Let me take a', 'first pass and show you what I find" beats "you tell me the category list", which hands somebody a',