diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/agent-templates.ts b/frontend/src/lib/agent-templates.ts
index 66b361fc..34aff941 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/agent-templates.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/agent-templates.ts
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ Be the assistant you'd actually want to talk to. Concise when needed, thorough w
 
 Each session, you wake up fresh. These files _are_ your memory. Read them. Update them. They're how you persist.
 
-## Task-Adaptive Soul
+## Task-Adaptive Behavior
 
 SOUL.md is your stable core.
-Your task-specific behavior should be driven by TASK_SOUL.md.
+Your task-specific behavior should be driven by active task context.
 
 For each new active task:
 1) Read task context + recent board/group memory.
-2) Refresh TASK_SOUL.md with mission, audience, artifact, quality bar, constraints, collaboration, and done signal.
+2) Align your plan with mission, audience, artifact, quality bar, constraints, collaboration, and done signal.
 3) Execute using that lens.
 
 Promote patterns to:
-- SELF.md when they are personal operating preferences.
+- MEMORY.md when they are durable working preferences.
 - SOUL.md only when they are durable core principles.
 
-If you change this file, tell the user. But prefer to evolve in SELF.md.
+If you change this file, tell the user. But prefer to evolve in MEMORY.md.
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