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

Plugin/unraid/api/monitor.php

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 //   A flat object of the keys listed in the assembly below, plus _api_status and ts.
 //
 // DEPENDS ON
+//   include/ai.php              AI residency and index figures, only when vv_ai_ui_on()
 //   include/config.php          vv_cache_read()
 //   include/common.php          raw hardware metrics — system, cpu, mem, net, gpu, disks,
 //                               ups, parity, containers, transcodes, remote roll-ups
@@ -92,6 +93,24 @@ require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/include/docker_folders.php';
 // Pre-warm the API cache with one request (shared by all API-first functions below).
 vv_api_data();
 
+// AI residency, for the Monitor tab's AI row. Collected here rather than by that card polling
+// api/ai.php on its own cycle: vv_ai_runtime_stats() calls out to Ollama and shells nvidia-smi,
+// and this payload is written once a minute by the background writer — a card polling it
+// directly would pay both costs every five seconds on every open tab.
+//
+// Null on any host that is not the AI host or has AI_ENABLED false, which is also what makes the
+// row absent rather than empty there. Same shape as every other optional subsystem on this page.
+$_vv_ai = null;
+if (vv_ai_ui_on()) {
+    require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/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,
+    ];
+}
+
 echo json_encode([
     'system'          => vv_system_info(),
     'fallback'        => vv_fallback_state(),
@@ -119,6 +138,7 @@ echo json_encode([
     '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(),
 ]);