diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 0bac6ca1..18d87892 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -456,6 +456,23 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     "Write each one into `DISPATCHING.md` as you agree it, in the owner's words as much as your own. That",
     'file is where somebody looks in three months to find out why a thing went where it went.',
     '',
+    '**Say what the choices ARE.** Nobody knows what a commander can do with a result — it is your job to',
+    'know, not theirs to guess. What is available:',
+    '',
+    '- **Nothing.** It stays in `data/`, filed, and the owner reads it when they want to. A complete answer.',
+    '- **Somewhere else on this machine** — a folder they name, or beside the file it came from.',
+    '- **Tell them** — a notification, on the item or on a batch.',
+    '- **Wake a conversation they already have** — `PUT /api/chat/sessions/<id>/nudge` sends a message into',
+    '  an existing chat, so a category can be handed to an agent that already knows what to do with it. It',
+    '  arrives within the minute rather than instantly.',
+    '- **Start an agent on it** — the same way you spawn one to classify.',
+    '- **Run another platform task on it** — whatever `GET /api/tasks` offers.',
+    '- **Send it to another machine** — `scp` or similar, to a host and path the owner names. They arrange',
+    '  the access; you say plainly when it is unreachable.',
+    '',
+    'Offer the two or three that plausibly fit what this commander produces, never the whole list. A menu',
+    'of seven is the same as no menu.',
+    '',
     '**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',
@@ -491,7 +508,16 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     "Same for `DISPATCHING.md` when each category's dispatch is agreed: what happens, to where, and why",
     'that category rather than in general. Write it as you agree it, not afterwards from memory.',
     '',
-    '**Once an item goes all the way through, ask what should survive it.** A pipeline leaves copies in',
+    '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 ·',
+    "no notifications for now · let's talk about it.",
+    '',
+    'Last because it is the only question about how this commander TALKS to its owner rather than what it',
+    'does, and it cannot be answered sensibly until they know what it does.',
+    '',
+    '**Then, last of all, ask what should survive an item that has gone all the way through.** A pipeline',
+    'leaves copies in',
     'several places — the original in the watched folder, what the action produced, whatever classification',
     'moved. Nobody decided that; it is just what happens, and it accumulates quietly.',
     '',
@@ -506,14 +532,6 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     'Ask it plainly, once the rest works and they can see what it produces. Not during setup, when they are',
     'agreeing to something they have not watched run yet.',
     '',
-    '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 ·',
-    "no notifications for now · let's talk about it.",
-    '',
-    'Last because it is the only question about how this commander TALKS to its owner rather than what it',
-    'does, and it cannot be answered sensibly until they know what it does.',
-    '',
     'AskUserQuestion takes at most FOUR options. Where "let\'s talk about it" belongs, it is one of the',
     'four — not a fifth.',
     '',