Move active alert acknowledgement, manual clear, recovery clear, state preservation, resolved registration, and no-lock removal helpers into internal/alerts/active_lifecycle.go.
Record active_lifecycle.go in the alerts subsystem contract and add a canonical-alias manual-clear characterization test.
Proof: go test ./internal/alerts/... -run 'TestClearAlertMarksResolutionAndReturnsStatus|TestClearAlertByCanonicalAliasRemovesActiveState|TestAddRecentlyResolvedUsesCanonicalStorageKey|TestAcknowledgeAlertNotFound|TestUnacknowledgeAlertSuccess|TestUnacknowledgeAlertByCanonicalAlias' -count=1
Proof: go test ./internal/alerts/... -count=1
Proof: go test ./internal/api -run Alert -count=1
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