diff --git a/src/lib/ai/coach/snapshot.ts b/src/lib/ai/coach/snapshot.ts
index 4c2a53dd8..2b2a4a01e 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/coach/snapshot.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/coach/snapshot.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * values with weekday labels and aggregates the older window into
  * weekly buckets so the prompt budget stays tight.
  */
-import { loadFreeWeekdaySpans } from "@/lib/profile/life-circumstances";
+import { loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt } from "@/lib/profile/life-circumstances";
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { extractFeatures } from "@/lib/insights/features";
 import type { CoachDataCluster } from "@/lib/validations/coach-prefs";
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ async function buildCoachSnapshotImpl(
       sourcePriorityJson: prefsRow?.sourcePriorityJson ?? null,
       userTz,
       ageYears: derivedProfile.ageYears,
-      freeWeekdaySpans: await loadFreeWeekdaySpans(userId),
+      freeWeekdaySpans: await loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt(userId),
       snapshot,
       metrics,
       registerBlock,
diff --git a/src/lib/profile/life-circumstances.ts b/src/lib/profile/life-circumstances.ts
index 7eea2ff8a..bab7ee582 100644
--- a/src/lib/profile/life-circumstances.ts
+++ b/src/lib/profile/life-circumstances.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import {
   computePackYears,
   DEFAULT_FREE_WEEKDAYS,
   isReviewDue,
+  LIFE_KIND_AI_SECTION,
   screeningHints,
   type FreeWeekdaysSpan,
   type PackYears,
@@ -214,6 +215,42 @@ export async function loadFreeWeekdaySpans(
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The free-weekday answers for a prompt: only when the section they belong
+ * to (`WORK`) is released to the AI. Otherwise the answers are never read or
+ * decrypted for a prompt, and the night-by-night day type falls back to the
+ * weekend default, exactly as for a record that never answered. The data
+ * surfaces (the sleep page, the dashboard) read `loadFreeWeekdaySpans`
+ * directly: they show the person their own answer, no model sees it.
+ */
+export async function loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt(
+  userId: string,
+): Promise<FreeWeekdaysSpan[]> {
+  // Fail-soft and fail-closed, like the read below: a failed switch read
+  // gives the weekend default and never the answers.
+  try {
+    const profile = await prisma.userHealthProfile.findUnique({
+      where: { userId },
+      select: { aiIncludedSections: true },
+    });
+    if (
+      !storedSections(profile?.aiIncludedSections).has(
+        LIFE_KIND_AI_SECTION.FREE_WEEKDAYS,
+      )
+    ) {
+      return [];
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    getEvent()?.addWarning(
+      `free weekdays switch read failed: ${
+        error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+      }`,
+    );
+    return [];
+  }
+  return loadFreeWeekdaySpans(userId);
+}
+
 /** Assemble the whole read model for one record. */
 export async function buildLifeCircumstances(
   userId: string,
diff --git a/tests/integration/life-circumstances.test.ts b/tests/integration/life-circumstances.test.ts
index 46fe9c8de..9c1cd8d12 100644
--- a/tests/integration/life-circumstances.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/life-circumstances.test.ts
@@ -297,6 +297,34 @@ describe("life-circumstance facts", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("free weekdays in a prompt", () => {
+  it("are read for a prompt only while the work section is released", async () => {
+    const user = await makeUser();
+    await signIn(user.id);
+    await data(
+      await postFact({ kind: "FREE_WEEKDAYS", value: VALUES.FREE_WEEKDAYS }),
+      201,
+    );
+    const { loadFreeWeekdaySpans, loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt } =
+      await import("@/lib/profile/life-circumstances");
+
+    await getPrismaClient().userHealthProfile.upsert({
+      where: { userId: user.id },
+      create: { userId: user.id, aiIncludedSections: ["WORK"] },
+      update: { aiIncludedSections: ["WORK"] },
+    });
+    expect(await loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt(user.id)).toHaveLength(1);
+
+    await getPrismaClient().userHealthProfile.update({
+      where: { userId: user.id },
+      data: { aiIncludedSections: ["ABOUT_ME"] },
+    });
+    expect(await loadFreeWeekdaySpansForPrompt(user.id)).toEqual([]);
+    // The data surfaces still show the person their own answer.
+    expect(await loadFreeWeekdaySpans(user.id)).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("AUDIT-C", () => {
   async function postAuditC(body: unknown): Promise<Response> {
     const { POST } = await import("@/app/api/anamnesis/audit-c/route");