diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
index e4e39539..bbe432f6 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
@@ -469,15 +469,6 @@ function createMessageHandler(
   let commanderNamed = false;
 
   const fileAsCommander = (): void => {
-    // TEMPORARY instrumentation, 2026-08-22. The chosen name has failed to reach the transcript twice, and
-    // reasoning about the path has been wrong twice. Remove once the cause is known.
-    logger.warn('[commander-name] fileAsCommander', {
-      commandHq,
-      transcriptId,
-      hasName: !!commanderName,
-      name: commanderName ?? null,
-      alreadyNamed: commanderNamed,
-    });
     if (!commandHq || !transcriptId) return;
     const userId = sessionManager.getSession(sessionId)?.userId;
     if (!userId) return;
@@ -510,7 +501,6 @@ function createMessageHandler(
         // and locates the transcript wherever it actually is — so this works either way, and passing a
         // path we know is probably wrong would be the kind of thing that reads as intent later.
         commanderNamed = renameClaudeSession(who, who.home, filedId, commanderName.trim());
-        logger.warn('[commander-name] rename attempt', { filedId, home: who.home, ok: commanderNamed });
       })
       .catch((err: unknown) => {
         logger.warn('Could not file this session as a commander', {
diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
index 4beb2c96..e965cd78 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CommandHQ/CommandHqDetail.tsx
@@ -209,7 +209,15 @@ function NewCommander({
       {chat.claudeSessionId ? (
         <MetaBar
           sessionId={chat.claudeSessionId}
-          title={undefined}
+          /*
+            The name the owner typed, straight from state.
+
+            It cannot come from the server yet: the rename lands at the END of the first turn (the transcript
+            does not exist when the turn starts), and this bar has no fetched title of its own — a brand-new
+            commander has nothing to resume. So the header read "Untitled commander" until a refresh, showing
+            the one thing on screen that nobody had chosen while the chosen name sat in a field above it.
+          */
+          title={name.trim() || undefined}
           isConnected={chat.isConnected}
           isGenerating={chat.isGenerating}
           onDisconnect={chat.disconnectSession}