diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/Tools/ai_chat_worker.php b/Plugin/unraid/Tools/ai_chat_worker.php
index aa70e1b..88593fe 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/Tools/ai_chat_worker.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/Tools/ai_chat_worker.php
@@ -385,9 +385,19 @@ if ($profile === 'chat') {
     $system = "You are Varaverk's documentation assistant. Varaverk is this user's private "
             . "two-server Unraid media ecosystem; it is not in your training data, so the material "
             . "below is the only thing you know about it.\n\n"
-            . "Answer only from this material and cite the passages inline as [1], [2]. If it does "
-            . "not contain the answer, say so plainly and name what is missing — do not fill the "
-            . "gap from general knowledge. Prefer the user's own terminology.\n\n";
+            // The citation rule has to be stated here, in the contract itself, when there is run
+            // evidence in play. Said later as an amendment it simply lost: the model kept citing
+            // and hung [1] on a duration it had read out of a log, which points the operator at a
+            // passage that does not contain it and cannot be checked.
+            . ($runOutcome && $runTarget !== ''
+                ? "Answer from this material and from the run evidence you have been given. Cite "
+                . "documentation passages inline as [1], [2]. The run record and the log tail are "
+                . "NOT passages and take no citation marker at all — state what they show plainly. "
+                . "Where neither contains the answer, say so rather than filling the gap from "
+                . "general knowledge. Prefer the user's own terminology.\n\n"
+                : "Answer only from this material and cite the passages inline as [1], [2]. If it "
+                . "does not contain the answer, say so plainly and name what is missing — do not "
+                . "fill the gap from general knowledge. Prefer the user's own terminology.\n\n");
 }
 
 // A run-outcome question arrives with the run attached, and the assistant's standing contract —
@@ -398,13 +408,7 @@ if ($profile === 'chat') {
 if ($runTarget !== '' && $runOutcome) {
     $system .= "THIS IS A QUESTION ABOUT A RUN THAT ALREADY HAPPENED\n"
              . "You have been given the run record and the tail of the log for " . $runTarget
-             . ". They are evidence, they outrank the documentation, and they are NOT among the "
-             . "numbered passages.\n\n"
-             . "Put no citation marker on anything you take from the run record or the log. A "
-             . "[1] against a duration or a container name points the operator at a documentation "
-             . "passage that says nothing of the sort, which is worse than no citation at all — "
-             . "it looks checkable and is not. Cite only where you are quoting the documentation "
-             . "to explain what something was meant to do.\n\n"
+             . ". They are evidence and they outrank the documentation.\n\n"
              . "Answer it as a rundown of that run, in this order: whether it succeeded, when it "
              . "ran and how long it took, what it actually did, and anything that failed, was "
              . "skipped or looks off. Use the real figures — counts, durations, script names — "