diff --git a/api/coach/core/categories.js b/api/coach/core/categories.js
index c7600697a7..004c72ea35 100644
--- a/api/coach/core/categories.js
+++ b/api/coach/core/categories.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * builds from it, so the screen cannot drift from the payload. */
 export const DATA_CATEGORIES = Object.freeze([
   'plan',        // routines, exercises, sets/reps, schedule, progression settings
-  'training',    // logged sets, targets, effort ratings, durations, PRs in the review window
+  'training',    // logged sets, targets, effort ratings, durations, PRs, session notes in the review window
   'bodyweight',  // weigh-ins in the window and your goal weight
   'profile',     // the intake answers you gave the Coach, including any limitations
   'prefs'        // unit, language, effort scale
diff --git a/api/coach/core/payload.js b/api/coach/core/payload.js
index 3830a7cadd..cc6db8e1d9 100644
--- a/api/coach/core/payload.js
+++ b/api/coach/core/payload.js
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ export const CONTRACT = 1;
 // makes the payload bigger and the reading vaguer, not better.
 export const MAX_WEEKS = 12;
 export const MAX_SESSIONS = 60;
+// The most a session note can be: the app's own cap (frontend/src/lib/history.js NOTE_MAX, pinned
+// by api/test/payload-parity.test.js), so a note the athlete wrote arrives whole and the bound only
+// holds for a document edited outside the app. It was 300 here, and a 500-character note reached
+// the model cut off mid-sentence.
+export const NOTE_MAX = 500;
 // Last-resort ceiling for a free-text note/refine (issue #267). The real limit is the admin's
 // `maxMessageLen`, enforced in jobs.js before a message ever reaches this module — this module
 // stays a pure allowlist with no config import of its own, so it keeps its own constant instead.
@@ -389,7 +394,7 @@ function cleanWorkout(w) {
     name: word(w.name, NAME_MAX),
     minutes: w.end && w.start ? Math.round((w.end - w.start) / 60000) : null,
     ...(w.rating ? { rating: typeof w.rating === 'number' ? w.rating : text(String(w.rating), 20) } : {}),
-    ...(w.note ? { note: String(w.note).slice(0, 300) } : {}),
+    ...(w.note ? { note: String(w.note).slice(0, NOTE_MAX) } : {}),
     prs: list(w.prs).length,
     entries: entriesOf(w).map(en => ({
       id: ident(en.id),
diff --git a/api/test/payload-parity.test.js b/api/test/payload-parity.test.js
index 572429f25f..5658d59ee4 100644
--- a/api/test/payload-parity.test.js
+++ b/api/test/payload-parity.test.js
@@ -14,11 +14,18 @@ import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import { tempData, sampleState } from './helpers.mjs';
 import { isWarmupRow } from '../../frontend/src/lib/workout-model.js';
 import { readSession as frontendReadSession } from '../../frontend/src/lib/progression.js';
+import { NOTE_MAX as frontendNoteMax } from '../../frontend/src/lib/history.js';
 
 tempData();
 const payload = await import('../coach/core/payload.js');
 const { handleFor } = await import('../coach/handle.js');
 
+/* The payload bounds a session note at the app's own cap, so a note the app let the athlete write
+   is never cut on its way to the model. */
+test('the payload\'s NOTE_MAX is the app\'s NOTE_MAX', () => {
+  assert.equal(payload.NOTE_MAX, frontendNoteMax);
+});
+
 test('isWarmupSet agrees with the frontend isWarmupRow', () => {
   const cases = [
     {}, null, undefined,
diff --git a/api/test/payload.test.js b/api/test/payload.test.js
index babd6832fd..e71ac41fc8 100644
--- a/api/test/payload.test.js
+++ b/api/test/payload.test.js
@@ -375,3 +375,21 @@ test('a workout\'s photos and videos never reach the payload', () => {
     }
   }
 });
+
+/* The session note is the athlete's own explanation of the numbers, and the app lets it run to
+   NOTE_MAX (500) characters. It was cut at 300 here, so a note explaining how a dumbbell weight
+   had been counted reached the model mid-sentence. */
+test('a session note reaches the model whole, bounded only at the app\'s own cap', () => {
+  const S = sampleState();
+  const whole = 'It is confusing whether the weight is total or per dumbbell. '.repeat(8).trim();   // 487 chars: past the old 300, within the cap
+  const mk = (d, note) => ({
+    id: 'w' + d, d, name: 'A', start: 0, end: 60000, prs: [], note,
+    entries: [{ id: '0001', target: { sets: 3, reps: 10, weight: 20 }, sets: [{ w: 20, r: 10, done: true }] }]
+  });
+  S.workouts = [mk('2026-09-02', whole), mk('2026-09-03', 'y'.repeat(payload.NOTE_MAX + 100))];   // only a document edited outside the app carries the second
+  const p = payload.build(S, { handle: handleFor('u1'), kind: 'review' });
+  const [full, edited] = p.window.workouts;
+  assert.equal(full.compact, undefined, 'both sessions are in full detail');
+  assert.equal(full.note, whole, 'the session note arrives whole (was cut at 300)');
+  assert.equal(edited.note.length, payload.NOTE_MAX, 'a note no app could have written is bounded at the cap');
+});
diff --git a/docs/AI_COACH.md b/docs/AI_COACH.md
index fed0ccbc32..442210f330 100644
--- a/docs/AI_COACH.md
+++ b/docs/AI_COACH.md
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ renders from, so the screen cannot drift from the payload — are:
 | Category | What it covers |
 | --- | --- |
 | `plan` | routines, exercises, sets/reps, schedule, progression settings |
-| `training` | logged sets, targets, effort ratings, durations, PRs in the review window |
+| `training` | logged sets, targets, effort ratings, durations, PRs and session notes in the review window |
 | `bodyweight` | weigh-ins in the window and your goal weight |
 | `profile` | the intake answers you gave the Coach, including any limitations |
 | `cohort` (optional) | only with comparison on and your own opt-in: anonymous medians from the other people sharing — never their data, and never yours to them beyond the same medians |
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/coach.js b/frontend/src/lib/coach.js
index 5b13ab95d6..8a1ccb8f0b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/coach.js
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/coach.js
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ import { POLICIES } from './progression.js'
 import { t } from './i18n.js'
 
 // Bumping this re-prompts everyone: it means what we share, or who we share it with, changed.
-export const CONSENT_VERSION = 1
+// 2: the training line names the session notes, which the payload carries and version 1 never
+// mentioned.
+export const CONSENT_VERSION = 2
 
 // Bounds. The whole state has to stay inside the server's 5 MB body limit, and a Coach log
 // that grows forever is exactly the kind of thing that eats it invisibly. Worst case here is
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ export const coachAvailable = (config, user, { demo, mobile, coachMode } = {}) =
 // builder uses (api/coach/core/categories.js), so the screen cannot promise less than leaves.
 export const CATEGORY_TEXT = {
   plan: ['Your plan', 'Routines, exercises, sets and reps, your weekly schedule and progression settings.'],
-  training: ['Your logged training', 'Sets you logged in the review window — weights, reps, times, effort ratings and how long sessions took.'],
+  training: ['Your logged training', 'Sets you logged in the review window — weights, reps, times, effort ratings, how long sessions took, and your session notes.'],
   bodyweight: ['Body weight', 'Weigh-ins from the same window, and your goal weight if you set one.'],
   profile: ['What you tell the Coach', 'Your intake answers, including any limitations or injuries you describe.'],
   prefs: ['A few preferences', 'Your unit, your language and which effort scale you log.']
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.demo-failure.test.jsx b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.demo-failure.test.jsx
index 02ca5121db..4a18616472 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.demo-failure.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.demo-failure.test.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import CoachChat from './CoachChat.jsx'
+import { CONSENT_VERSION } from '../lib/coach.js'   // the consent a fixture grants is the current one, whatever its number
 
 // The demo Coach's failure state, end to end. Every other CoachChat test mocks lib/coach-api.js;
 // this one runs the real thing with DEMO forced on, so the chain under test is exactly what the
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ const state = () => ({
   unit: 'kg', lang: 'en', customEx: [], workouts: [brokenWorkout()], bodyweight: [], exWeights: {},
   dayPlan: {}, routines: [], week: {},
   coach: {
-    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: 1 },
+    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: CONSENT_VERSION },
     profile: { goal: 'muscle', experience: 'new', daysPerWeek: 3, sessionMin: 60, preferredDays: [1, 3, 5], equipment: [] },
     log: [], snapshots: [], chat: [{ id: 'c1', role: 'user', kind: 'intake', at: 1 }], timings: []
   },
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.fast-failure.test.jsx b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.fast-failure.test.jsx
index 49e07869f2..8838dcb1e8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.fast-failure.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.fast-failure.test.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import React, { act } from 'react'
 import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import CoachChat from './CoachChat.jsx'
+import { CONSENT_VERSION } from '../lib/coach.js'   // the consent a fixture grants is the current one, whatever its number
 import { requestPlan, settleAwaited } from '../lib/coach-api.js'
 
 // A run that fails before the first status poll. A provider that refuses the connection fails
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ const state = routines => ({
   unit: 'kg', lang: 'en', customEx: [], workouts: [{ id: 'w1', name: 'Push Day', d: '2026-09-01', entries: [] }], bodyweight: [], exWeights: {},
   dayPlan: {}, routines, week: {},
   coach: {
-    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: 1 },
+    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: CONSENT_VERSION },
     profile: { goal: 'muscle', experience: 'new', daysPerWeek: 3, sessionMin: 60, preferredDays: [1, 3, 5], equipment: [] },
     log: [], snapshots: [], chat: [{ id: 'c1', role: 'user', kind: 'intake', at: 1 }], timings: []
   },
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.test.jsx b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.test.jsx
index 0a19d47431..12560025bb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/CoachChat.test.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import CoachChat from './CoachChat.jsx'
+import { CONSENT_VERSION } from '../lib/coach.js'   // the consent a fixture grants is the current one, whatever its number
 import { effectiveRoutine } from '../lib/history.js'
 import { todayISO } from '../lib/format.js'
 
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ const state = () => ({
   unit: 'kg', lang: 'en', customEx: [], workouts: [], bodyweight: [], exWeights: {},
   dayPlan: {}, routines: [], week: {},
   coach: {
-    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: 1 },
+    consent: { agreedAt: '2026-07-01T00:00:00Z', version: CONSENT_VERSION },
     profile: { goal: 'muscle', experience: 'new', daysPerWeek: 3, sessionMin: 60, preferredDays: [1, 3, 5], equipment: [] },
     log: [], snapshots: [], chat: [{ id: 'c1', role: 'user', kind: 'intake', at: 1 }], timings: []
   },
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.jsx b/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.jsx
index a5f8597527..39ba2e4093 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.jsx
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ export default function CoachIntake() {
   const update = useStore(s => s.update)
   const toast = useUI(s => s.toast)
   const [needConsent] = useState(() => !editing && !hasConsent(S))
-  const STEPS = [...(needConsent ? ['consent'] : []), 'goal', 'experience', 'days', 'length', 'equipment', 'limits', 'extras']
+  // An athlete who already answered the intake and only lacks the CURRENT consent (the wording
+  // changed and CONSENT_VERSION moved) reads the new terms and goes back to the Coach. Without
+  // this the redirect from the chat replayed all seven questions and ended in a new plan request.
+  const [reconsentOnly] = useState(() => !editing && !hasConsent(S) && !!S.coach?.profile)
+  const STEPS = reconsentOnly ? ['consent'] : [...(needConsent ? ['consent'] : []), 'goal', 'experience', 'days', 'length', 'equipment', 'limits', 'extras']
   const [step, setStep] = useState(0)
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false)
   const [p, setP] = useState(() => ({
@@ -81,7 +85,8 @@ export default function CoachIntake() {
 
   const agree = () => {
     update(s => { s.coach = { ...(s.coach || emptyCoach()), consent: { agreedAt: new Date().toISOString(), version: CONSENT_VERSION } } })
-    setStep(step + 1)
+    if (reconsentOnly) nav('/coach', { replace: true })
+    else setStep(step + 1)
   }
 
   const finish = async () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.test.jsx b/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.test.jsx
index 9cdf5aefa6..ed9e1815af 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/views/CoachIntake.test.jsx
@@ -147,6 +147,28 @@ describe('CoachIntake — the consent screen', () => {
     expect(mocks.nav).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/plan')
   })
 
+  it('a returning athlete whose consent is out of date reads the new terms only, then goes back to the Coach', () => {
+    // CONSENT_VERSION moved (the training line now names the session notes). The chat's redirect
+    // used to replay all seven questions and end in a new plan request.
+    mocks.S.coach = { consent: { agreedAt: '2026-09-01T00:00:00Z', version: CONSENT_VERSION - 1 }, profile: { goal: 'strength', experience: 'intermediate', daysPerWeek: 3 }, chat: [] }
+    mount()
+    expect(eyebrow()).toBe('Before we start')
+    expect(all('.ob-dot')).toHaveLength(0)
+    tap('button', 'I understand')
+    expect(mocks.S.coach.consent.version).toBe(CONSENT_VERSION)
+    expect(mocks.S.coach.profile.goal).toBe('strength')            // the answers stay as they were
+    expect(mocks.nav).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/coach', { replace: true })
+    expect(vi.mocked(requestPlan)).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('the training line names the session notes, which the Coach reads', () => {
+    // api/coach/core/payload.js sends each recent session's note (cleanWorkout). The consent
+    // screen listed weights, reps, times, effort and durations, and never said so.
+    mount()
+    const training = all('.ob-consent-row').find(r => r.querySelector('b').textContent === 'Your logged training')
+    expect(training.textContent).toContain('your session notes')
+  })
+
   it('lists the built-in categories first, then whatever the server says actually goes', async () => {
     vi.mocked(disclosure).mockResolvedValue({ categories: ['plan', 'prefs'], providerLabel: 'Anthropic', payer: 'you', host: 'api.anthropic.com' })
     mount()