Put the assistant on the dashboard, where the questions actually occur to you

Plugin/unraid/Tools/api_cache_writer.php

@@ -91,6 +91,21 @@ $t = microtime(true);
 // Call vv_api_data() once — result is static-cached for the rest of this process.
 vv_api_data();
 
+// Must stay in step with api/monitor.php's own block. This file is what the Monitor tab
+// normally reads — the endpoint only assembles a payload on a cache miss — so a key added there
+// and not here leaves the card that consumes it loading forever on every ordinary page load,
+// and working on the one request that happens to miss the cache.
+$_vv_ai = null;
+if (vv_ai_ui_on()) {
+    require_once $_base . '/include/ai.php';
+    $_vv_ai = [
+        'model'   => vv_ai_config()['model'],
+        'runtime' => vv_ai_runtime_stats(),
+        'index'   => vv_ai_index_stats(),
+        'tokens'  => vv_ai_token_stats()['today'] ?? null,
+    ];
+}
+
 $monitor = [
     'system'          => vv_system_info(),
     'fallback'        => vv_fallback_state(),
@@ -118,6 +133,7 @@ $monitor = [
     'vms'             => vv_get_vms(),
     'docker_folders'  => vv_get_docker_folders(),
     'remote_hosts'    => vv_remote_hosts_stats(),
+    'ai'              => $_vv_ai,
     '_api_status'     => vv_api_get_status(),
     'ts'              => time(),
 ];