diff --git a/internal/router/router.go b/internal/router/router.go
index 68457e3..f603ea9 100644
--- a/internal/router/router.go
+++ b/internal/router/router.go
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ func (r *Router) Route(ctx context.Context, utterance string, now time.Time) (De
 			continue // grammar matched shape but not content → fall through
 		}
 		d.Utterance = utterance
+		// The grammar decided the intent; the extractor fills the slots it did
+		// not match (V-572). See fillMatchedSlots for why every grammar gets it.
+		r.fillMatchedSlots(ctx, &d, now)
 		return d, nil
 	}
 
@@ -121,14 +124,37 @@ func (r *Router) Route(ctx context.Context, utterance string, now time.Time) (De
 	return d, nil
 }
 
-// fillSlots — run stage-2 extraction on an LLM decision and fill only the slots
-// the model left empty. The LLM wins where it answered: it saw the sentence, the
-// parsers are keyword tables. Extraction covers what the model cannot produce at
-// all — a parsed reminder time and an allowlist fn.
+// fillMatchedSlots — run stage-2 extraction over a decision some earlier
+// claimant produced, and fill only the slots that claimant left empty. A
+// matched value always wins: the claimant read the sentence, the extractor
+// guesses from keyword tables.
+//
+// Shared by the stage-0 grammars and the LLM router, which had the same hole
+// for the same reason. A grammar asserts an intent at confidence 1.0 and says
+// nothing about the slots, so "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме" arrived with
+// HasTime false however plainly the hour was spoken, and the daemon read the
+// silence as absence and asked "Когда?" (V-572). The alternative was ten
+// grammars each re-implementing extraction.
+//
+// It is applied to every stage-0 decision rather than to a chosen few, because
+// for every intent but reminder it is inert: Extract fills Time for a reminder,
+// Fn for an act and Key for a fact, and nothing at all for query, system, note
+// or chat, which is what the query, clock, agenda, feed, list, task and
+// narrative rules emit. The act rules — wakeword-act and the Praxis ones —
+// already carry an Fn or they do not match, so there is nothing left for the
+// matcher to fill. The reminder rule is the one that gains, and its time parse
+// is a cost the daemon was already paying one layer down in actionReminder.
+//
+// Slots.Text is deliberately NOT filled here. Extract sets it to the raw
+// utterance, and a grammar that left it empty meant it: agendaQueryBuild hands
+// the query chain the utterance itself, and narrativeQueryBuild's Text is the
+// topic, not the sentence.
 //
 // If a reminder still has no time, leave it missing. The daemon then says it
 // could not read the time; inventing one would set a wrong alarm.
-func (r *Router) fillSlots(ctx context.Context, d *Decision, now time.Time) {
+// Returns what the extractor read, so a caller that wants more of it does not
+// pay for a second extraction — the reminder parser is the expensive one.
+func (r *Router) fillMatchedSlots(ctx context.Context, d *Decision, now time.Time) Slots {
 	ex := r.extractor.Extract(ctx, d.Intent, d.Utterance, now)
 	if !d.Slots.HasTime && ex.HasTime {
 		d.Slots.Time, d.Slots.HasTime = ex.Time, ex.HasTime
@@ -139,6 +165,14 @@ func (r *Router) fillSlots(ctx context.Context, d *Decision, now time.Time) {
 	if !d.Slots.HasFn && ex.HasFn {
 		d.Slots.Fn, d.Slots.Args, d.Slots.HasFn = ex.Fn, ex.Args, ex.HasFn
 	}
+	return ex
+}
+
+// fillSlots — fillMatchedSlots for an LLM decision, plus the two backfills that
+// only make sense there. The LLM wins where it answered: it saw the sentence,
+// the parsers are keyword tables.
+func (r *Router) fillSlots(ctx context.Context, d *Decision, now time.Time) {
+	ex := r.fillMatchedSlots(ctx, d, now)
 	// For an act the model returns the verb in Text ("restart nginx"), which is
 	// often cleaner than the raw utterance ("maven, could you restart nginx").
 	// Try it too when the utterance did not match the allowlist.
diff --git a/internal/router/router_test.go b/internal/router/router_test.go
index e8970fc..9c5a285 100644
--- a/internal/router/router_test.go
+++ b/internal/router/router_test.go
@@ -121,6 +121,73 @@ func TestStage0GrammarFiresThroughCyrillicWakeWord(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestStage0ReminderCarriesTheHourHeSaid — "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме" is
+// the commonest reminder there is, and it used to reach the daemon with HasTime
+// false, because ReminderGrammar builds its slots by hand and the router ran no
+// extraction over a stage-0 decision. The daemon read the silence as absence and
+// asked "Когда?" about an hour he had just said (V-572).
+func TestStage0ReminderCarriesTheHourHeSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	r := newTestRouter(t, 0.0)
+	r.grammars = append(r.grammars, ReminderGrammar())
+
+	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме", refNow())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("route: %v", err)
+	}
+	if d.Stage != 0 || d.Intent != IntentReminder {
+		t.Fatalf("want stage0 reminder, got %+v", d)
+	}
+	if !d.Slots.HasTime {
+		t.Fatalf("the hour was spoken, so the slot must be filled: %+v", d.Slots)
+	}
+	if got, want := d.Slots.Time.Format("15:04"), "11:00"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("fire time = %s, want %s", got, want)
+	}
+	// The subject is the grammar's, not the extractor's: Slots.Text is what she
+	// says at the hour, and Extract would have overwritten it with the sentence.
+	if d.Slots.Text != "в 11:00 позвонить маме" {
+		t.Errorf("Text = %q, want the grammar's capture", d.Slots.Text)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestStage0MatchedSlotBeatsTheExtractor — a grammar that matched a literal
+// pattern outranks a parser that guessed. The wake-word act names its fn from
+// the remainder after the wake token; extraction over the raw utterance must not
+// be able to replace it.
+func TestStage0MatchedSlotBeatsTheExtractor(t *testing.T) {
+	r := newTestRouter(t, 0.0)
+	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "maven, restart nginx", refNow())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("route: %v", err)
+	}
+	if d.Slots.Fn != "restart" || len(d.Slots.Args) != 1 || d.Slots.Args[0] != "nginx" {
+		t.Fatalf("matched fn was overwritten: %+v", d.Slots)
+	}
+	if d.Slots.Text != "restart nginx" {
+		t.Errorf("Text = %q, want the grammar's remainder", d.Slots.Text)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestStage0QueryKeepsAnEmptyText — agendaQueryBuild deliberately leaves Text
+// empty so the query chain reads the utterance itself. Extraction fills Time,
+// Key and Fn and never Text, or every stage-0 query would start carrying the
+// whole sentence in a slot that means something narrower.
+func TestStage0QueryKeepsAnEmptyText(t *testing.T) {
+	r := newTestRouter(t, 0.0)
+	r.grammars = append(r.grammars, AgendaQueryGrammars()...)
+
+	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "что у меня сегодня", refNow())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("route: %v", err)
+	}
+	if d.Stage != 0 || d.Intent != IntentQuery {
+		t.Fatalf("want stage0 query, got %+v", d)
+	}
+	if d.Slots.Text != "" {
+		t.Errorf("Text = %q, want it left empty", d.Slots.Text)
+	}
+}
+
 // ----------------------------- stage 1 ---------------------------------------
 
 func TestStage1ClassifiesAct(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/internal/router/stage0.go b/internal/router/stage0.go
index 82f58ab..fe0cb0a 100644
--- a/internal/router/stage0.go
+++ b/internal/router/stage0.go
@@ -88,11 +88,12 @@ func DefaultGrammars(actMatcher ActMatcher) []Grammar {
 // non-reminder time queries toward it, and the verb+action overlap pushes
 // actual reminders toward fact — a double contamination. Stage 0 fixes both.
 //
-// The grammar captures the part after "напомни"/"remind me" into Slots.Text
-// so the daemon's time parser can extract the fire time from it. The grammar
-// itself does NOT parse time — that's the extractor's job (stage 2), but
-// stage 0 skips the extractor. The daemon's applyAction fallback calls the
-// time parser for stage-0 reminders that arrive without HasTime.
+// The grammar captures the part after "напомни"/"remind me" into Slots.Text —
+// what she says at the hour. The grammar itself does NOT parse time; that is
+// the extractor's job, and since V-572 the router runs the extractor over a
+// stage-0 decision too (fillMatchedSlots in router.go). Before that it did not,
+// so "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме" reached the daemon with HasTime false and
+// was asked "Когда?" about an hour he had just said.
 func ReminderGrammar() Grammar {
 	return Grammar{
 		Name:    "reminder-wakeword",