Let one gate decide every AI surface, so switching AI off actually removes all of it

The Tools card adopted the AI scripts on the host check alone, and api/ai.php only
tested AI_ENABLED in front of ask, so a disabled subsystem still had rows to run and
an endpoint that answered.

Plugin/unraid/include/config.php

@@ -268,6 +268,19 @@ function vv_is_ai_host(): bool {
     return vv_detect_host() === 'host1';
 }
 
+// Whether the UI may offer anything AI at all: the right host, with the master switch on. Every
+// AI surface asks this one question — the AI tab, the assistant dock on the Scheduler, and the
+// two AI rows on the Tools card — so AI off means AI gone, not gone from most places.
+//
+// It lives here rather than in include/ai.php because the pages that need it do not all load
+// that file; the Scheduler loads only config.php, and a gate that silently answers false where
+// its definition is missing is worse than no gate. Reads AI_ENABLED directly for the same
+// reason. Fail-closed on anything but the literal "true", matching the conf's own contract.
+function vv_ai_ui_on(): bool {
+    return vv_is_ai_host()
+        && strtolower(trim(vv_conf_vars()['AI_ENABLED'] ?? 'false')) === 'true';
+}
+
 function vv_read_conf_raw(string $filename): string {
     $path = CONF_DIR . '/' . $filename;
     return file_exists($path) ? file_get_contents($path) : '';

Plugin/unraid/include/scheduler.php

@@ -319,12 +319,12 @@ function vv_tools_scripts(): array {
     // chain. Moving the file to match the UI would break the grouping that explains it.
     $ADOPTED = ['System_Essentials/server_reboot.sh'];
 
-    // The AI tools are adopted only where the index and the model actually live. Elsewhere they
-    // are two rows that can only ever fail — the retrieval index is not synced between hosts and
-    // Ollama runs on one of them. vv_is_ai_host() comes from include/ai.php, which the page loads
-    // but this file does not require; absent it, assume not, because showing a tool that cannot
-    // work is worse than omitting one that could.
-    if (function_exists('vv_is_ai_host') && vv_is_ai_host()) {
+    // The AI tools are adopted only where the index and the model actually live, and only while
+    // the subsystem is switched on. Elsewhere they are two rows that can only ever fail — the
+    // retrieval index is not synced between hosts, Ollama runs on one of them, and both scripts
+    // refuse on their own unless AI_ENABLED is true. vv_ai_ui_on() is the same gate the AI tab
+    // and the assistant dock use, so AI off means no AI anywhere in the UI, not most of it.
+    if (vv_ai_ui_on()) {
         array_push($ADOPTED, 'AI/ai_index.sh', 'AI/ai_query.sh');
     }