diff --git a/packages/cli/src/agent/report.md b/packages/cli/src/agent/report.md
index 5336274e..58387bd3 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/agent/report.md
+++ b/packages/cli/src/agent/report.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Topic: report     (CLI v%(CLI_VERSION)s / topic v3)
+# Topic: report     (CLI v%(CLI_VERSION)s / topic v4)
 
 ## Goal
 Publish a Taskless report: an unlisted page on tskl.es that shows what
@@ -79,10 +79,14 @@ later and deletes one on request.
 
 4. **Show the result.** On success the CLI prints a short summary: the
    rules, what they found in the code today, what review raised over
-   the window, the link, and when it expires. Show it to the user
-   exactly as printed. Then tell them, in one line, that the report can
-   be deleted after they have reviewed it, and that they only need to
-   ask.
+   the window, the link, and when it expires. Relay it to the user as
+   ordinary chat text, NOT inside a code block or quote: a fenced block
+   makes the link unclickable and buries the report the whole session
+   led up to. Keep its content and order; do not add, drop, or reword
+   facts. Put the link on its own line as a plain URL or a Markdown
+   link, so the user can open it directly, and render the rules as a
+   list. The summary already says the report can be deleted on
+   request, so do not repeat it.
 
    If you restate any of the report's numbers in your own words, keep
    the kinds apart and label each: counts the CLI found **in the code
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/report.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/report.test.ts
index 8b11cea9..937b24d2 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/report.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/report.test.ts
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ describe("taskless report", () => {
   it("counts only review comments, and asks for a candidate estimate, not pricing", async () => {
     const { stdout, exitCode } = await run(["agent", "report"]);
     expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
-    expect(stdout).toMatch(/^# Topic: report {5}\(CLI v.+ \/ topic v3\)/m);
+    expect(stdout).toMatch(/^# Topic: report {5}\(CLI v.+ \/ topic v4\)/m);
     const flat = stdout.replaceAll(/\s+/g, " ");
     const counting = flat.slice(flat.indexOf("## Counting surfaced"));
     expect(counting).toContain("**Only review comments count.**");
@@ -899,6 +899,25 @@ describe("taskless report", () => {
     expect(show).toContain("which are **your estimate**");
   });
 
+  // "Show it exactly as printed" read as verbatim, so agents fenced the
+  // summary and its link stopped being clickable. The summary already says it
+  // can be deleted, so the recipe no longer asks for that line again.
+  it("relays the summary as chat text, not a code block", async () => {
+    const { stdout, exitCode } = await run(["agent", "report"]);
+    expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
+    const flat = stdout.replaceAll(/\s+/g, " ");
+    const show = flat.slice(
+      flat.indexOf("**Show the result.**"),
+      flat.indexOf("**Clean up.**")
+    );
+    expect(show).toContain(
+      "Relay it to the user as ordinary chat text, NOT inside a code block or quote"
+    );
+    expect(show).toContain("Put the link on its own line");
+    expect(show).not.toContain("exactly as printed");
+    expect(show).toContain("so do not repeat it");
+  });
+
   it("refuses --from and --delete together", async () => {
     const { stderr, exitCode } = await run([
       "report",