diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6db512d4b..413b9421d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pulse-npm-cache,target=/root/.npm \
 # Copy frontend source
 COPY frontend-modern/ ./
 COPY scripts/exclusive-lock.mjs /app/scripts/exclusive-lock.mjs
+COPY docs/ /app/docs/
+COPY SECURITY.md TERMS.md /app/
 
 # Build frontend
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pulse-npm-cache,target=/root/.npm \
diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
index 3655e88d5..f26496028 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/deployment-installability.md
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ demo-deploy workflow. Shipped binaries, installable container images, and
 governed deployment-build workflows must all carry the same build metadata
 contract rather than depending on whichever local ldflags string happened to be
 updated last.
+That same Docker release-build boundary also owns the embedded frontend's
+shipped-doc inputs. When the frontend embed build syncs public docs from the
+repo root, `Dockerfile` must stage the canonical shipped docs set into the
+container build context before `npm run build` runs, rather than relying on a
+workstation-local checkout layout or leaving hosted runtime image builds unable
+to resolve `/app/docs/*.md`, `SECURITY.md`, or `TERMS.md`.
 The same governed promotion path must now stay explicit too:
 `scripts/release_control/resolve_release_promotion.py` is the canonical owner
 for stable-versus-prerelease metadata validation shared by `.github/workflows/release-dry-run.yml`
diff --git a/scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go b/scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go
index de2273cba..d2b1e79f8 100644
--- a/scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go
+++ b/scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go
@@ -105,6 +105,24 @@ func TestDockerAndDemoBuildsUseCanonicalReleaseLdflags(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestDockerfileStagesShippedDocsForEmbeddedFrontendBuild(t *testing.T) {
+	dockerfileBytes, err := os.ReadFile(repoFile("Dockerfile"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read Dockerfile: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	dockerfile := string(dockerfileBytes)
+	required := []string{
+		`COPY docs/ /app/docs/`,
+		`COPY SECURITY.md TERMS.md /app/`,
+	}
+	for _, needle := range required {
+		if !strings.Contains(dockerfile, needle) {
+			t.Fatalf("Dockerfile missing shipped-doc build input: %s", needle)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func repoFile(parts ...string) string {
 	root := filepath.Join("..", "..")
 	segments := append([]string{root}, parts...)