diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 36358d11..0bac6ca1 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -479,6 +479,18 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     '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.',
     '',
+    '**Then write down the RULE you applied, not what came out of it.** "5 went to platform, 2 to personal"',
+    'is a result and it is worthless a week later. What belongs in `CLASSIFICATION.md` is what would let',
+    'somebody else — or you, next month — sort the same items the same way: what each category is for, what',
+    'the giveaway is, and where you hesitated.',
+    '',
+    "Write the borderline calls down especially. Those are the rule's real edges, they are where it will be",
+    'wrong first, and they are the only part the owner can usefully argue with. A scheme with no recorded',
+    'doubt looks decided, and then nobody revisits it.',
+    '',
+    "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',
     '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.',