diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json
index 5899c75c7..2e99b2bc1 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json
@@ -4222,7 +4222,22 @@
     }
   ],
   "work_claims": [],
-  "open_decisions": [],
+  "open_decisions": [
+    {
+      "id": "patrol-product-language-ai-boundary",
+      "summary": "Customer-facing Patrol surfaces should lead with `Patrol` or `Pulse Patrol` product language rather than generic AI branding, but the exact migration boundary across URLs, settings affordances, and remaining runtime/support copy still needs to be carried through the governed Patrol surface before release-ready signoff.",
+      "owner": "project-owner",
+      "blocking_level": "release-ready",
+      "status": "open",
+      "opened_at": "2026-04-14",
+      "lane_ids": [
+        "L6"
+      ],
+      "subsystem_ids": [
+        "patrol-intelligence"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
   "source_of_truth_file": "docs/release-control/v6/internal/SOURCE_OF_TRUTH.md",
   "resolved_decisions": [
     {
diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/patrol-intelligence.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/patrol-intelligence.md
index 27cf853d6..1b0a35ea2 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/patrol-intelligence.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/patrol-intelligence.md
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ Patrol-specific presentation helpers.
    inventory, phrase availability as Patrol runs with no API key on activated
    or trial-backed installs, and avoid implying broader hosted chat, generic
    AI credits, or anonymous Community entitlement.
+5. Keep customer-facing Patrol naming product-first: page titles, route chrome,
+   summary copy, actions, and empty states should lead with `Patrol` or
+   `Pulse Patrol` rather than generic `AI` branding. Reserve `AI` terminology
+   for explicit provider/configuration settings, shared runtime internals, or
+   other technical capability boundaries where the underlying ownership really
+   is AI runtime rather than the Patrol product surface.
 
 ## Current State
 
@@ -94,6 +100,12 @@ thin shell that delegates to the feature-owned
 `frontend-modern/src/features/patrol/PatrolIntelligenceSurface.tsx`, so Patrol
 runtime state and presentation no longer accumulate directly in the route
 component itself.
+That route-shell ownership does not make `AI` the customer-facing Patrol
+product name. Internal file, store, and transport names may still carry the
+shared AI-runtime boundary where that is the real technical ownership, but the
+operator-facing Patrol experience should present `Patrol` as the product and
+avoid drifting back to generic `AI Intelligence` branding outside explicit
+provider/settings affordances.
 The feature surface now also keeps the same shell/runtime split internally:
 `frontend-modern/src/features/patrol/PatrolIntelligenceSurface.tsx` owns feature
 composition, the Patrol-owned section files under