diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d78161b22..09f49f36f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Pulse Makefile for development
 
-.PHONY: build run dev dev-status dev-logs dev-stop dev-restart dev-backend-restart dev-verify frontend backend all clean distclean dev-hot lint lint-backend lint-frontend format format-backend format-frontend build-agents control-plane handoff
+.PHONY: build run dev dev-status dev-logs dev-stop dev-restart dev-backend-restart dev-verify dev-foreground frontend backend all clean distclean dev-hot lint lint-backend lint-frontend format format-backend format-frontend build-agents control-plane handoff
 
 FRONTEND_DIR := frontend-modern
 FRONTEND_DIST := $(FRONTEND_DIR)/dist
@@ -27,28 +27,31 @@ run: build
 
 # Development - managed local runtime
 dev:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh start --takeover
+	npm run dev
 
 dev-status:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh status
+	npm run dev:status
 
 dev-logs:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh logs
+	npm run dev:logs
 
 dev-stop:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh stop
+	npm run dev:stop
 
 dev-restart:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh restart --takeover
+	npm run dev:restart
 
 dev-backend-restart:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh backend-restart
+	npm run dev:backend-restart
 
 dev-verify:
-	./scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh verify --takeover
+	npm run dev:verify
+
+dev-foreground:
+	npm run dev:foreground
 
 dev-hot:
-	./scripts/hot-dev.sh
+	npm run dev:foreground
 
 # Clean build artifacts
 clean:
diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
index dd220c72b..612019f62 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
@@ -228,7 +228,11 @@ controls that start, stop, restart, or recover local development. The repo-root
 Makefile targets, `scripts/toggle-mock.sh`, and `scripts/clean-mock-alerts.sh` must
 route through the managed runtime control plane when they are operating on the
 local dev stack, instead of resurrecting lane-local `hot-dev.sh` or raw Vite
-process management through separate shell folklore.
+process management through separate shell folklore. For Makefile targets, that
+means dispatching through the canonical repo-root npm wrappers (`npm run dev`,
+`npm run dev:status`, `npm run dev:restart`, `npm run dev:backend-restart`,
+`npm run dev:verify`, `npm run dev:stop`, and `npm run dev:foreground`) rather
+than shelling directly into `scripts/hot-dev-bg.sh`.
 When `scripts/clean-mock-alerts.sh` needs to quiesce a local dev runtime, it
 must stop the managed session through `hot-dev-bg` before touching legacy
 compatibility services, and its operator recovery guidance must point back to
diff --git a/scripts/tests/test-hot-dev-bg.sh b/scripts/tests/test-hot-dev-bg.sh
index 426e16b90..b1a90ffe3 100755
--- a/scripts/tests/test-hot-dev-bg.sh
+++ b/scripts/tests/test-hot-dev-bg.sh
@@ -346,6 +346,21 @@ PY
   assert_contains "frontend package keeps explicit frontend-only escape hatch" "${output}" "dev:frontend-only=vite"
 }
 
+test_makefile_routes_managed_runtime_through_npm() {
+  local output
+  output="$(cat "${ROOT_DIR}/Makefile")"
+
+  assert_contains "make dev routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev:\n\tnpm run dev'
+  assert_contains "make dev-status routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-status:\n\tnpm run dev:status'
+  assert_contains "make dev-logs routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-logs:\n\tnpm run dev:logs'
+  assert_contains "make dev-stop routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-stop:\n\tnpm run dev:stop'
+  assert_contains "make dev-restart routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-restart:\n\tnpm run dev:restart'
+  assert_contains "make dev-backend-restart routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-backend-restart:\n\tnpm run dev:backend-restart'
+  assert_contains "make dev-verify routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-verify:\n\tnpm run dev:verify'
+  assert_contains "make dev-foreground routes through npm wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-foreground:\n\tnpm run dev:foreground'
+  assert_contains "make dev-hot routes through foreground wrapper" "${output}" $'dev-hot:\n\tnpm run dev:foreground'
+}
+
 test_hot_dev_script_advertises_foreground_escape_hatch() {
   local output
   output="$(sed -n '1,30p' "${ROOT_DIR}/scripts/hot-dev.sh")"
@@ -605,6 +620,7 @@ main() {
   test_launchd_setup_advertises_managed_runtime_controls
   test_root_package_exposes_managed_runtime_entrypoints
   test_frontend_package_exposes_managed_runtime_entrypoints
+  test_makefile_routes_managed_runtime_through_npm
   test_hot_dev_script_advertises_foreground_escape_hatch
   test_hot_dev_bg_script_advertises_managed_entrypoint
   test_integration_readme_uses_managed_backend_restart_wrapper