Patrol now has two modes: **Watch only** reports findings, and **Ask
first** investigates and proposes fixes. Every fix waits in Actions for
an operator to approve and run it. Safe auto-fix (`assisted`) and
Autopilot (`full`) are retired.
Why: schema-v17 telemetry for the week to 2026-10-11 counts 1 assisted
and 2 full installs out of 612 reporting Patrol, and 4 executed Patrol
actions in 30 days, all on one install. No GitHub issue asks for more
autonomy. Meanwhile the automatic path carried its own policy leases,
acknowledgement store, per-resource allowlist, release gate and Colima
lab. Investigation is what paid installs use, so it stays.
Behaviour
- A saved `assisted`, `full` or `autonomous` level reads as `approval`.
Both autonomy update routes refuse those levels with `400
invalid_autonomy_level`. The acknowledgement routes are gone.
- The core Patrol action broker only plans: `Plan` and `Submit` persist
the plan and return. `TestContract_PatrolActionBrokerOnlyPlans` forbids
execution calls in its source.
- Removed:
- `ExecuteUnderPolicy`, the policy authorization lease, and the policy
execution store methods;
- Autopilot acknowledgement persistence, its routes and its dialog;
- the per-resource automatic-action allowlist: type, API field and
drawer editor. The store column is written as NULL.
- Kept for compatibility:
- `GetPatrolFullModeUnlocked` stays on the extension contract and
reports false;
- historical action records keep their lease and reason codes decodable,
labelled as retired modes.
- The Patrol inbox no longer has a "continuing without a decision"
bucket: every current issue is an operator decision.
Governance
- RG-06 now proves Patrol never executes without an operator decision
(integration tier).
- RG-02/RG-04 and the RA35/RA39/RA40 proof commands point at surviving
tests. Every `-run` name was checked against `git grep '^func Test'`.
- Pro plan copy, AI docs, privacy telemetry wording and the subsystem
contracts describe the two modes.
Verification
- Go: vet is clean. config, ai, ai/qualification, telemetry,
actionlifecycle, unifiedresources, aicontracts and api pass on
pulse-dev.
- Frontend: type-check and lint are clean; 217 related test files pass.
- Governance: release_control Python suites, status/registry audits and
the docs mirror pass.
- Browser: a pulse-enterprise build of this tree with a Pro licence, run
before and after merging onto main:
- the Patrol selector has exactly two modes, and each save reads back;
- retired levels get 400, and the acknowledgement route returns 404;
- the drawer Manage tab has no allowlist editor and still saves;
- phone width is fine; the plan page shows no retired modes.
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