diff --git a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
index 60cb686a..6085c006 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ use crate::system_chat::model::{ChatModel, Item, Phase};
 use model::Conversation;
 
 /// The panel's client instance on the app's peer (the same on every open).
+/// Internal: the sheets and question cards say "for you" for it
+/// (`approvals::sheet::persons_surface`).
 pub const INSTANCE: &str = "shell-ask";
 
 /// The id prefix of the app's questions in the panel.
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/approvals/sheet.rs b/crates/shell/src/approvals/sheet.rs
index 59a2eb57..4cbddc96 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/approvals/sheet.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/approvals/sheet.rs
@@ -105,10 +105,21 @@ pub fn app_label(app: &str) -> String {
     }
 }
 
-/// "Calendar's agent", "The system agent", "Rinx's agent for weather".
+/// Whether a request context's `client` is one of the shell's own surfaces
+/// where the person talks to an app's agent: the "Ask <app>" panel
+/// ([`crate::app_chat::INSTANCE`]) or a card's in-card chat
+/// ([`crate::glance_chat::INSTANCE`]). Such a turn is the person's, and
+/// the person reads "for you", never the shell's internal instance id.
+pub fn persons_surface(client: &str) -> bool {
+    client == crate::app_chat::INSTANCE || client == crate::glance_chat::INSTANCE
+}
+
+/// "Calendar's agent", "The system agent", "Rinx's agent for weather",
+/// "Calendar's agent for you" (the person's own surface, [`persons_surface`]).
 pub fn caller_label(owning_app: &str, caller: &Caller) -> String {
     match caller {
         Caller::OwnAgent { client: None } => format!("{}'s agent", app_label(owning_app)),
+        Caller::OwnAgent { client: Some(c) } if persons_surface(c) => format!("{}'s agent for you", app_label(owning_app)),
         Caller::OwnAgent { client: Some(c) } => format!("{}'s agent for {c}", app_label(owning_app)),
         Caller::AppAgent { app } => format!("{}'s agent", app_label(app)),
         Caller::SystemAgent => "The system agent".into(),
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs b/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
index 8157c7b6..56aa4b66 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
@@ -494,6 +494,30 @@ fn sheet_model_shows_app_tool_caller_and_redacted_args() {
     assert!(labels.iter().any(|l| l.starts_with("Everything Mail asks")));
 }
 
+/// A turn from the person's own surface (the "Ask <app>" panel, a card's
+/// chat) is the person's: the sheet line and its toast say "for you". The
+/// shell's internal instance id reached the person ("Asked by Calendar's
+/// agent for shell-ask", the toast "Calendar's agent for shell-ask asks").
+/// Another client keeps its own name (a Rinx mini app).
+#[test]
+fn the_persons_own_surface_reads_for_you_never_its_instance_id() {
+    use super::sheet::caller_label;
+    for client in [crate::app_chat::INSTANCE, crate::glance_chat::INSTANCE] {
+        assert_eq!(caller_label("os.calendar", &Caller::OwnAgent { client: Some(client.into()) }), "Calendar's agent for you", "{client}");
+    }
+    assert_eq!(caller_label("rinx", &Caller::OwnAgent { client: Some("weather".into()) }), "Rinx's agent for weather");
+    assert_eq!(caller_label("os.calendar", &Caller::OwnAgent { client: None }), "Calendar's agent");
+    let (mut r, _) = router();
+    let caller = Caller::OwnAgent { client: Some(crate::app_chat::INSTANCE.into()) };
+    let request = make_request("os.calendar", ToolSpec::host("calendar.remove_event"), json!({"id": "evt-1"}), caller, ctx("ask-1", Trigger::Person), T0, 0);
+    let Route::Sheet(_) = r.request(request, T0) else { panic!() };
+    assert_eq!(r.front_sheet().unwrap().lines[0].caller, "Calendar's agent for you", "the sheet's \"Asked by\" line");
+    let notices = r.take_notices();
+    let toast = notices.iter().find(|n| n.title == "Needs you: Calendar \u{00b7} calendar.remove_event").expect("the sheet's toast");
+    assert_eq!(toast.body, "Calendar's agent for you asks. Open the sheet to approve or deny.");
+    assert!(notices.iter().all(|n| !format!("{} {}", n.title, n.body).contains(crate::app_chat::INSTANCE)), "{notices:?}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_batch_is_one_sheet_in_the_system_chat() {
     let (mut r, relay) = router();
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/glance_chat.rs b/crates/shell/src/glance_chat.rs
index 87145441..3538e905 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/glance_chat.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/glance_chat.rs
@@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ impl Responder for HostResponder {
 /// first.
 pub struct AgentResponder;
 
-/// The instance the card chat's conversation is opened under.
-const INSTANCE: &str = "card-chat";
+/// The instance the card chat's conversation is opened under (internal:
+/// the person reads "for you", `approvals::sheet::persons_surface`).
+pub const INSTANCE: &str = "card-chat";
 
 impl Responder for AgentResponder {
     fn respond(&self, request: Request, done: Done) {
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs b/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
index c1d2414d..504af1b3 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
@@ -128,11 +128,16 @@ impl Request {
     pub fn answer_count(&self) -> usize {
         self.items.len().max(1)
     }
-    /// "Rinx's agent asks", for a surface's heading.
+    /// "Rinx's agent asks", for a surface's heading: "(for the assistant)"
+    /// in the system agent's lane, "(for you)" from the person's own surface
+    /// (the "Ask <app>" panel, a card's chat:
+    /// [`crate::approvals::sheet::persons_surface`]), else the client's name
+    /// ("(weather)", a Rinx mini app). Never the shell's internal instance id.
     pub fn asked_by(&self) -> String {
         let app = crate::approvals::sheet::app_label(&self.app);
         match (&self.origin, &self.client) {
             (Origin::SystemAgent, _) => format!("{app}'s agent asks (for the assistant)"),
+            (_, Some(client)) if crate::approvals::sheet::persons_surface(client) => format!("{app}'s agent asks (for you)"),
             (_, Some(client)) => format!("{app}'s agent asks ({client})"),
             _ => format!("{app}'s agent asks"),
         }
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/questions/tests.rs b/crates/shell/src/questions/tests.rs
index c525fbac..e78164ac 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/questions/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/questions/tests.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,28 @@ fn a_question_follows_its_turns_origin_not_its_session() {
     assert!(model.get(system).unwrap().origin_reported);
 }
 
+/// Who asks, as every surface heads a question: the person's own surface
+/// (the "Ask <app>" panel, a card's chat) reads "for you", never the
+/// shell's internal instance id ("News's agent asks (shell-ask)" reached
+/// the person); the system agent's lane "for the assistant"; another
+/// client (a Rinx mini app) keeps its name.
+#[test]
+fn who_asks_names_the_person_never_the_shells_instance_id() {
+    let mut model = Questions::default();
+    let mut ask = |peer: &str, client: Option<&str>, origin: CallOrigin| {
+        let mut q = question("q1", "t1", origin, client.map(|_| "ctx1"));
+        q.client = client.map(str::to_string);
+        let (answer, _) = answer_handle();
+        let id = model.requested(peer, None, q, answer);
+        model.get(id).unwrap().asked_by()
+    };
+    assert_eq!(ask("card.os.news", Some(crate::app_chat::INSTANCE), CallOrigin::Context), "News's agent asks (for you)");
+    assert_eq!(ask("card.os.mail", Some(crate::glance_chat::INSTANCE), CallOrigin::Context), "Mail's agent asks (for you)");
+    assert_eq!(ask("card.os.news", None, CallOrigin::PeerInput), "News's agent asks (for the assistant)");
+    assert_eq!(ask("rinx", Some("weather"), CallOrigin::Context), "Rinx's agent asks (weather)");
+    assert_eq!(ask("rinx", None, CallOrigin::PeerOwn), "Rinx's agent asks");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn the_persons_answer_is_sent_once_and_a_closed_question_takes_none() {
     let mut model = Questions::default();