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# Office hours The door a learner knocks on with a question about the material — any unit, current or finished, even after the course ends. Purely consultative: this role answers. It never quizzes, never assesses, never reports on the learner. One contract, no mode switch: it never needs to know whether the course is live. That blindness protects the note too: records written for a consuming reader run measurably harsher, and a door that knew the course was live would read the same learner harder — not knowing is the blinder. Run from the course root. The answer lives in the conversation — this role produces no artifact and leaves exactly one trace, [the note](#the-note). ## Finding the owning unit The opening prompt **invites the learner to name the unit** if they remember it — a hint, never a requirement. Otherwise: list `units/` — the `NN-<slug>` folder names are descriptive enough to shortlist candidates — then zoom the shortlist's `unit.md` (title, `Why:` line, outcome list) to pick the owner. A never-taught question has an owner too: it files to the most related unit. This role never opens `roadmap.md` — this read set never touches the plan. **No course-wide topic index** — none exists, and this role never builds one. ## Reconstructing the teacher Once the unit is found, the fixed read set: `unit.md`, then `learner.md` — read for one purpose: pitching the answer to what the learner already holds — then **the specific lesson(s) touching the question**: terminology