Add a "request_tag" scope that attaches context by AI request tags
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<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>Add a scope plugin that includes a context item when the <strong>AI request carries one of the tags</strong> the item is scoped to. Tags here are the strings the <code>ai</code> module records on a provider call — set via <code>AiProviderInterface::setTag()</code> / the <code>$tags</code> argument to <code>chat()</code>, and surfaced on the provider request events as <code>AiProviderRequestBaseEvent::getTags()</code> (e.g. an operation type, <code>ai_ckeditor</code>, or a caller-defined tag like <code>ai_empathy_scenario:5</code>).</p>
<h2>Problem / motivation</h2>
<p><code>ai_context</code> today has a <code>tag</code> scope, but it keys on <strong>taxonomy term IDs</strong> (<code>ai_context_tags</code> vocabulary) matched via agent subscriptions. There is no way to scope a context item to the <strong>runtime AI request tags</strong> the <code>ai</code> module already tracks. Consumers that are not agents (ai_ckeditor, custom callers, ai_empathy evaluations) tag their provider calls but cannot use those tags to select context.</p>
<p>Related: #3581955 (inject context into ai_ckeditor requests) matches on entity type/ID; request-tag matching is a complementary mechanism that would let CKEditor (and any consumer) also target context by the operation/tags on the call.</p>
<h2>The one design constraint</h2>
<p>Context is injected into the prompt <strong>before</strong> the provider request is sent, so a scope cannot wait for <code>ai.pre_generate_response</code> to learn the tags — by then the input (with context) is already built. The request's tags must be made available to context selection <em>up front</em>. This is the only genuinely new integration required; the rest is a standard scope plugin.</p>
<h2>Proposed approach</h2>
<ol>
<li>
<strong>New <code>request_tag</code> scope plugin:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Selectable tags are an admin-defined list on the scope's settings form (mirrors the <code>entity_bundle</code> scope), rendered as checkboxes on each context item. Values are plain tag strings, not taxonomy term IDs.</li>
<li><code>supportsSubscriptions()</code> stays TRUE, so items are matched by intersecting the request's tags with the item's selected tags through the existing resolver scoring; <code>doGetCurrentValue()</code> returns NULL (no ambient page value).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<strong>A supported way for callers to declare the request's tags</strong> — pick one:
<ul>
<li><strong>(a) Recommended:</strong> add a <code>requestTags</code> field to <code>AiContextRequest</code> (and a param on <code>AiContextRequestFactory::fromParameters()</code> / <code>getRenderedContext()</code>) that callers populate. Simple and explicit; reuses the existing <code>scopeSubscriptions</code> machinery; no changes to the <code>ai</code> module.</li>
<li><strong>(b) Alternative:</strong> a request-scoped "current AI request tags" collector, populated where callers call <code>$provider->setTag()</code> and, where the flow allows, from <code>ai.pre_generate_response</code>. More automatic but heavier.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h2>Working prototype</h2>
<p>A functioning implementation already exists in the <code>ai_empathy_ccc</code> submodule of the <code>ai_empathy</code> project and can be lifted into ai_context:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>AiContextScopeRequestTag</code> — the scope plugin (admin-defined tag list + checkboxes; subscription matching; <code>ai_context.scope_settings.request_tag</code> config).</li>
<li>The empathy evaluator surfaces its request tags (<code>ai_empathy</code>, <code>ai_empathy_scenario:<id></code>, <code>ai_empathy_run:<n></code>) on its prompt-alter event, and the subscriber passes them via <code>getRenderedContext(scopes: ['request_tag' => $tags])</code>.</li>
<li>A kernel test proves that with <code>SELECTION_MODE_MATCH_ALL</code> (as <code>getRenderedContext()</code> uses), a <code>request_tag</code> subscription <strong>restricts</strong> inclusion to matching items (plus globals) — it does not merely reorder — confirming the resolver already supports this end-to-end.</li>
</ul>
<p>Moving it upstream mainly requires deciding mechanism (a) vs (b) so any consumer — agents, ai_ckeditor — can declare request tags, not just ai_empathy.</p>
<h2>Proposed resolution</h2>
<ul>
<li>Add <code>AiContextScopeRequestTag</code> plugin + settings form + config/schema.</li>
<li>Decide (a) vs (b) and expose request tags to selection.</li>
<li>Kernel test for tag-restricted inclusion; update docs (custom scopes).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Related issues</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3586319">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3586319</a></li>
<li><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3581955">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3581955</a></li>
<li><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3586237">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3586237</a></li>
</ul>
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