Summary

Lets /predict serve frames from a local shared volume (edge deployments) instead of S3, per the design in docs/specs/2026-06-11-api-local-frames-design.md.

• New optional source: "s3" | "local" field on PredictRequest, defaulting to the new TEMPORAL_API_FRAME_SOURCE setting (default s3) — zero behavior change for existing deployments and callers.
• In local mode, frames are relative paths resolved under the settings-only TEMPORAL_API_FRAMES_ROOT with a symlink-aware containment check; the root is never request-suppliable by design.
• Local frames are read in place — no temp dir, no copy, the whole fetch stage drops out of the latency budget (profiled as local_resolve instead of s3_fetch; resolution runs off the event loop like the S3 fetch).
• FRAME_SOURCE=local without FRAMES_ROOT fails at startup; a root that is not a directory at request time is a distinct 400 so misconfiguration is never masked as missing frames.
• Response schema untouched; runner, ROI handling, and detection cache unchanged.

Request formats

S3 (unchanged — today's alert-api requests behave byte-for-byte identically):

POST /predict
{
  "frames": ["cam12/2026-06-11/frame_0001.jpg", "cam12/2026-06-11/frame_0002.jpg"],
  "bucket": "2eb7ac42fbbf-alert-api-2"
}

bucket is optional and falls back to TEMPORAL_API_S3_BUCKET, as before. An explicit "source": "s3" is equivalent to omitting it on an s3-default server.

Local (edge box configured with TEMPORAL_API_FRAME_SOURCE=local and TEMPORAL_API_FRAMES_ROOT=/data/frames):

POST /predict
{
  "frames": ["cam12/2026-06-11/frame_0001.jpg", "cam12/2026-06-11/frame_0002.jpg"],
  "source": "local"
}

Each frame resolves to /data/frames/<frame> and is read in place. source may be omitted when the server's default is already local (the expected edge setup). roi_xyxyn and ?verbose=true work identically for both sources.

Error contract (local additions):

Producer invariants for local mode (documented in api/README.md): publish frames atomically (write + rename — frames are read in place), and keep frame basename stems globally unique when the detection cache is enabled (the same invariant S3 keys already carry).

Test Plan

• make -C api test — 147 passed, 1 skipped (115 pre-existing tests pass unmodified — back-compat proof; 32 new tests cover the resolver, settings, schema, and route)
• make -C api lint / make -C api format — clean
• Traversal cases covered: absolute path, .. (escaping and non-escaping), symlink escaping the root, empty/. frames
• Reviewed at high effort (7-angle multi-agent review); all confirmed findings fixed on this branch