diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 94927408..4ee8ca6a 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -230,16 +230,9 @@ 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.',
     '',
-    '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.',
+    'Everything an action produces goes in THIS directory, under `classification/`. Never into the path you',
+    'watch — that holds its subject, not your work. Getting the result there is your problem to solve with',
+    'whatever ran the action; where it ends up is not negotiable.',
     '',
     '**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',
diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/FileBrowserApp/components/TaskRunnerModal.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/FileBrowserApp/components/TaskRunnerModal.tsx
index eca94744..24733931 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/FileBrowserApp/components/TaskRunnerModal.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/FileBrowserApp/components/TaskRunnerModal.tsx
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ export type TaskInputDef = {
   default?: string;
   options?: string[];
   autofill?: string;
+  /** For a caller with no browser — never rendered, never asked about. See `useTasks.ts`. */
+  hidden?: boolean;
 };
 
 type TaskInputFormProps = {
@@ -332,7 +334,7 @@ export const TaskInputForm = ({
   hideTrackPickers,
 }: TaskInputFormProps) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
-  const configurableInputs = Object.entries(inputDefs).filter(([key]) => !autoFilledKeys.has(key));
+  const configurableInputs = Object.entries(inputDefs).filter(([key, def]) => !autoFilledKeys.has(key) && !def.hidden);
   if (configurableInputs.length === 0) return null;
 
   return (
diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.test.ts b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.test.ts
index 4c841e26..c8d96809 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.test.ts
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.test.ts
@@ -104,3 +104,14 @@ test('agentic and pipeline always take the modal', () => {
   expect(runsWithoutPrompting(scriptTask({ mode: 'agentic' }))).toBe(false);
   expect(runsWithoutPrompting(scriptTask({ mode: 'pipeline' }))).toBe(false);
 });
+
+// An input that exists for a caller with no browser — a commander passing its own output directory.
+// Declaring one must not turn a direct right-click run back into a modal with a field nobody clicking a
+// file has an answer for.
+test('a hidden input is not something to ask a person about', () => {
+  expect(
+    runsWithoutPrompting(
+      scriptTask({ inputs: { file_path: { required: true }, output_dir: { required: false, hidden: true } } }),
+    ),
+  ).toBe(true);
+});
diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.ts b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.ts
index a66eb883..9526f1b1 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.ts
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/FileBrowser/useTasks.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ export type TaskInputSpec = {
   autofill?: string;
   required?: boolean;
   options?: unknown;
+  /**
+   * Not for a person. An input that exists for callers with no browser — a commander passing its own
+   * output directory — and that the file browser must neither show nor count as something to ask about.
+   *
+   * Without this, declaring one turns a direct right-click run back into a modal with a field nobody
+   * clicking a file has an answer for.
+   */
+  hidden?: boolean;
 };
 
 export type TaskSummary = {
@@ -55,7 +63,7 @@ export type TaskSummary = {
 const BROWSER_AUTOFILL = new Set(['entry_name', 'entry_path']);
 
 const isFilledByBrowser = (key: string, spec: TaskInputSpec): boolean =>
-  key === 'file_path' || (!!spec.autofill && BROWSER_AUTOFILL.has(spec.autofill));
+  spec.hidden === true || key === 'file_path' || (!!spec.autofill && BROWSER_AUTOFILL.has(spec.autofill));
 
 export const runsWithoutPrompting = (task: TaskSummary): boolean => {
   if (task.mode !== 'script') return false;