From be56c0c7cd3c07f1cf93b892d060e8ab289d158c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Padez?= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:08:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] offer a first draft instead of a blank page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit asked how categories should be decided, it offered "you name them now" and "let's talk about it" — and the owner had to type "take a first try and lets see how it lands" into the Other box. it had already transcribed eight memos. it could have read them and proposed a set. so: where you could draft the answer yourself, that is the FIRST option. naming them outright is the second, for somebody who already knows. stated generally, because categories are only the first instance: any time the answer is something you could sketch from what you already have, sketch it and ask them to correct it. correcting a draft is quick, inventing one is work, and it is work the commander is better placed to do. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043 --- src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts index 00d0d82e..7ce6326a 100644 --- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts +++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts @@ -381,6 +381,16 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string { '', 'Whatever they choose, work through it first — one question at a time, same as everything else.', '', + '**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', + 'blank page about data they have not read. Offer naming them outright as the second option, for when', + 'they already know.', + '', + 'This is general. Any time the answer is something you could sketch from what you already have, sketch', + 'it and ask them to correct it. Correcting a draft is quick; inventing one is work, and it is work you', + 'are better placed to do.', + '', 'Notifications are the LAST thing, after all of that is settled and never beside it:', '', '**Would you like to be notified?** — on every action · a count every so often, or at a time of day ·',