The alert AI button now offers a manual targeted Patrol check alongside the
existing context-only Pulse Assistant handoff, so the take-the-lead intent routes
to Patrol (the investigator) instead of overloading Assistant (the explainer).
POST /api/ai/patrol/run (HandleForcePatrol) accepts an optional scope body and
routes through the same TriggerScopedPatrol engine and scoped run record as
automatic alert-triggered work, not a new trigger route; empty body keeps the
legacy fleet-wide run. Scoped runs honour Patrol readiness but bypass the
full-run cadence gate, consistent with the existing scoped-cadence rule, and
carry resource identity only (no command or remediation payload).
Frontend: triggerPatrolRun(scope?) and a split AI button (patrolOption) on the
alert overview card whose menu runs the scoped check; icon/history rows stay
single-purpose. Contract updates land in the touched/dependent subsystem docs
(ai-runtime, api-contracts, agent-lifecycle, storage-recovery, frontend-primitives,
security-privacy, patrol-intelligence, alerts); subsystem_lookup_test line
expectation refreshed for the api-contracts shift.
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