Create AI Translate CCC context consumer plugin
## Summary
Add an AI Translate CCC context consumer type on top of the generic
consumer plugin API from ai_context#3586346+s. Everything that
receives context is a consumer; agents are one type. CKEditor tools
were the first non-agent production type owned by an external
project (ai_ckeditor#3615834+s). This issue is the Translate type
on that same generic path.
ai_context#3586346+s is on `1.0.x`. The Automator type
(ai_context#3586451+s) and the CKEditor type
(ai_ckeditor#3615834+s) already proved the as-built contract.
The public API is not expected to change. Use as-built names from
ai_context#3586346+s (`ckeditor:…`, `automator:…`, `agent:…`).
## Why this is not covered by ai_translate#3585523+s
ai_translate#3585523+s added a Tool API / agent entrypoint. CCC
verified that path against the shipped `agent` type in
ai_context#3586446+s. That work did **not** replace the existing
chat-proxy path.
UI batch translation and Drush still go through
`ChatTranslationProvider`, which calls:
`$this->realTranslator->chat($messages, $model, ['ai_translate'])`
Those requests never hit `BuildSystemPromptEvent`, so they never
use the `agent` consumer type. Earlier CCC planning treated
#3585523+s as “no consumer plugin needed.” That only covers the
agent entrypoint. This issue is the remaining chat-proxy path.
CKEditor’s **Translate** tool is a different consumer
(`ckeditor:ai_ckeditor_translate`). Do not merge the two.
## Why this lives in AI Translate
Non-agent types belong in the consuming project. Automators were
the documented exception (AI core will not take a Composer or
module dependency on CCC). Translate is the normal case, same as
CKEditor:
- Plugin lives in this project (standalone `ai_translate`)
- AI Context discovers it; no AI Context code change is required
for the type itself
- `ai_translate` does not take a hard dependency on `ai_context`
- Gate on the `ai_translate` module machine name only, never on
package layout. The copy bundled in the AI project is
`lifecycle: deprecated` and keeps the same machine name.
## Solution approach
Follow the path CKEditor actually shipped
(ai_ckeditor#3615834+s / ai_ckeditor!12+s), unless maintainers
prefer a submodule:
1. **Recommended (as-built CKEditor):** put the plugin in the
main `ai_translate` module. The type extends the AI Context
consumer type base class and is discovered by the AI Context
consumer type manager, both of which arrived with the API in
1.0.0-beta5. On an older AI Context the plugin is never
discovered, so discovery is the gate and there is no runtime
version check. No version constraint in `info.yml` and no
install-time type-settings default. `composer.json` suggests
`drupal/ai_context` (1.0.0-beta5 or later) and require-devs it
for tests.
2. **Alternative:** a small integration submodule
(e.g. `ai_translate_context`). Its `info.yml` constrains the
AI Context version and `config/install` ships
`ai_context.consumer_type_settings.translate`.
Sites that do not use CCC, or do not want this integration,
already have off switches: do not enable `ai_context` (the type
then does not exist), the type-wide **Enable this consumer type**
flag, and per-instance `push_enabled` (default off).
Two different strings:
| String | Role |
|--------|------|
| `translate:default` | CCC consumer ID (config row) |
| `ai_translate` | Request tag already emitted by `ChatTranslationProvider` |
Type plugin ID is `translate` (no colon, no `ai_` prefix). That
matches as-built `ckeditor`, `automator`, and `agent`. Do not
use the older plan name `ai_translate:default`.
One instance is enough to *claim*. Unlike CKEditor, there is no
second `ai_translate:{something}` tag in 1.0.
## Decisions
1. **The chat-proxy translator is the consumer.** One instance.
Canonical ID `translate:default`. Type plugin ID is
`translate`.
2. **No per-language-pair instances in 1.0.** English→French and
English→German share one subscription set. A later issue can
add `translate:{lang_from}-{lang_to}` when structured language
metadata exists on the provider request.
`TextTranslatorInterface::translateContent()` accepts an
`$entityContext` array (renamed from `$context`; it only ever
carries `entity_context`). If that follow-up lands, derive pair
instances from configured languages, do not hardcode them.
3. **Do not reconstruct the instance from the route or from
language codes in the URL.** The consumer router fails closed
on ambiguity. Matching requires the `ai_translate` request
tag. Native `translate_text` providers never emit a chat
request and never get injection. Document that in the
consumer description.
4. **One instance, not a plugin-manager list.** There is no
Translate tool plugin manager. `getInstances()` returns the
single `default` instance. UI, Drush, interface translation,
and any other chat-proxy call share that row.
5. **Push is opt-in.** `getInstanceDefaults()` sets
`push_enabled: FALSE`. A row-less site gets no injection.
6. **Selection mode follows the site default.** The type does
not override the AI Context base defaults. With AI Context
`1.0.x` after ai_context#3586535+s the editor opens on
**Site default** and stores `inherit`; earlier 1.0.x betas
preselect **Minimal** on the first save. Either way an unsaved
row inherits the site-wide mode at runtime, and an editor can
lock a ladder mode on the row. Automatic injection never
widens the stored mode.
7. **Chat only.** Image, speech, embeddings, native
`translate_text`, and other non-chat `llmType` values never
hit the generic subscriber.
8. **No agent-only features.** Loop-aware and Debug / Explore
stay on `AiContextConsumerTypeAgent`. Translate does not get
Context Tools. Loop-aware does not apply here: each field is
an independent chat request, so there is no earlier iteration
whose context the model still sees.
9. **Agent / Tool API translation stays on `agent:{id}`.** The
CCC consumer router returns no routing types for requests
tagged `ai_agents` or `ai_assistant_api`, so this type is never
asked about them and carries no excluded-tag check of its own.
Nested `ChatTranslationProvider` chats from an agent tool still
emit only `['ai_translate']` and **may** receive this type’s
push. That is intended: the inner chat uses its own system
prompt (`You are a helpful translator.`) which the agent path
does not populate.
10. **Do not scrape the route for the translated entity.** The
generic path never uses the route. Attach `entity_context`
on the `ChatInput` from the orchestrator / `$entityContext`
array.
11. **Publish source and target langcodes on the chat request as
`language_context`.** Chat-proxy sets request metadata
`language_context` with `target` (required) and `source`
(when known). Values come from the translation job, never
from the route. The key is deliberately generic, not
translation-specific: other consumers with a target language
(CKEditor Translate, the agent path, automators on a
translation) can emit the same key, and the CCC Language
scope reads one contract (ai_context#3586532+s). CCC does not
read it yet. French-only vs any-language items still stay on
`translate:default`. Do not add `translate:fr` consumer rows
for that.
12. **Cached translations are keyed per entity only while
context is pushed.** Pushed context can depend on the entity
being translated (Entity Types, Taxonomy, Specific Entities),
so while push is on for `translate:default` the translation
cache ID includes the sanitized `entity_context`, and entries
are tagged with `ai_context_item_list` and
`config:ai_context.settings`. Push is off by default; while it
is off the ID is unchanged and one string is shared across the
site, so a site that installs AI Context for agents pays
nothing. Whenever `ai_context` is enabled, entries are also
tagged with `config:ai_context.consumers` and
`config:ai_context.consumer_type_settings.translate`, so
switching push on or off, or disabling the type, invalidates
the cache and an entry is never served under the other
setting. "Invalidates" means the next translation of that text
reaches the provider again; translations saved on content are
never touched. A cache hit still skips the chat call, so
nothing is pushed and no CCC usage is recorded for that field;
that is documented.
13. **Opt back into one cached translation per string.** A
Translate consumer type setting, **Share cached translations
across content while context is pushed**
(`ai_context.consumer_type_settings.translate`,
`share_entity_cache`, off by default, stored only while
checked), keeps one entry per string even while pushing, for
sites whose context items are site-wide guidance. Tags are
unchanged. It lives on the type settings form in CCC because
it only means anything while CCC pushes.
## What this ships
- `AiContextConsumerType` plugin `translate`
(`AiContextConsumerTypeTranslate`) in the main module
- `getRoutingRequestTags()` returns `['ai_translate']`
- `resolveConsumerId()` claims a request only when tags include
`ai_translate`; otherwise `NULL` (decline). Agent and assistant
requests never reach it (decision 9). The returned consumer ID
is `translate:default`
- `getInstances()` returns the one `default` instance
- `getLabelRoute()` returns `ai_translate.settings_form` (there
is a single settings form, unlike CKEditor tools)
- Combined push gate already provided by AI Context: instance
`push_enabled` AND type `isEnabled()`. `isAvailable()` is the
base class default; discovery is the gate
- Config schema for `ai_context.consumer_type_settings.translate`
(`enabled`, `share_entity_cache`); no install config
- `buildTypeSettingsForm()` / `submitTypeSettingsForm()` on the
type add the share option below the enabled flag; the
description says when push is currently off
- Attach `entity_context` on the `ChatInput`
(`entity_type`, `bundle`, `id`) so Entity Types / Taxonomy /
Specific Entities can match. Source it from the existing
orchestrator / `translateContent()` `$entityContext` path, not
URL scraping in the consumer plugin. Calls with no entity leave
it unset; those scopes simply do not match
- Attach `language_context` (`target`, optional `source`) on the
`ChatInput` (decision 11)
- Translation cache keyed on `entity_context` while push is on,
tagged on AI Context items and settings while push is on, and
on the consumers and type configuration whenever `ai_context`
is enabled (decision 12), plus the share option (decision 13)
- Docs: matching, Site default (inherit) selection mode,
`entity_context`, `language_context`, chat-proxy vs native
`translate_text`, agent entrypoint vs this type, per-field
billing, anonymous Drush / cron runs, cached translations
skipping CCC and the share option, and how to enable the
integration
- Kernel coverage modeled on the Automator / CKEditor / test
consumer types, kernel and unit coverage for the cache keying,
push gate, invalidation, and the type settings form, plus
functional coverage that the type appears when the integration
is available and push stays off until configured
The generic subscriber, consumer listing, editor, invocation
result (`AiContextInvocationResult`), and usage
`consumer_id` / `consumer_type` fields already exist in AI
Context.
## AI Translate call-site changes (this MR)
`ChatTranslationProvider` currently calls:
`$this->realTranslator->chat($messages, $model, ['ai_translate'])`
That is enough for the single instance to be *claimed*. Unlike
CKEditor, no extra instance tag is required in 1.0.
| # | Change | Why |
|---|--------|-----|
| 1 | Keep the `ai_translate` chat tag | Type eligibility and instance claim |
| 2 | Attach `entity_context` on the `ChatInput` | Generic path never uses the route. Without this, Entity Types / Taxonomy / Specific Entities never match |
| 3 | Thread entity identity through `translateContent()` `$entityContext` from the orchestrator | The provider plugin does not currently receive the entity |
| 4 | Attach `language_context` on the `ChatInput` (`target`, optional `source`) | Prep for CCC Language matching under a generic key. Not a second consumer instance. |
| 5 | Key the translation cache on `entity_context` and tag it on AI Context changes while push is on | A cache hit skips the chat call. Without this, one entity's context-shaped translation is served to another and stale entries survive context changes |
| 6 | Type setting `share_entity_cache` | Lets sites with site-wide items keep one cached translation per string while pushing |
Do not add a language-pair or route reconstruction fallback in
the consumer plugin. If `ai_translate` is missing, decline.
No temporary AI Context subscriber is required. This project
owns the call site.
## Site-builder path
1. Enable AI Context and AI Translate.
2. Enable the **Translate** consumer type (Consumer Types).
3. Open **Context consumers**.
4. Edit `translate:default`.
5. Turn on **Push context automatically**.
6. Subscribe (for example Use Case = Working with Text, Entity
Types = `node:article`) and optionally Always / Never
include.
Next tagged chat-proxy run (UI or Drush, when the configured
provider is the chat proxy) → tag match → push → system prompt
gets the CCC block. `ChatTranslationProvider` already sets a
system prompt; the subscriber appends and `ProviderProxy`
re-applies it.
Invocation result lands on event / input metadata (`PUSHED`,
`NO_ITEMS`, `PUSH_DISABLED`, `TYPE_DISABLED`, `STALE`,
`DECLINED`, `AMBIGUOUS`). Translate may surface that later; CCC
does not.
Pull via `getRenderedContext()` / `getResult()` still works for
custom callers. This issue is the automatic push path.
## Limits that stay
- **Chat only.** Native `translate_text` providers never hit
this subscriber
- **Push is opt-in.** No saved row and no `push_enabled` means
no injection
- **Site default on first save.** The row inherits the
site-wide selection mode (`inherit` with AI Context 1.0.x
after ai_context#3586535+s; Minimal on earlier betas). A
Minimal site default with no subscriptions means almost no
items, not “all published context”
- **Not agent tools.** Loop-aware injection and Context Tools
stay on the agent path (`agent:{id}` from #3585523+s)
- **No language-pair matching.** Missing later
`ai_translate:{pair}` tags are out of scope; do not
reconstruct from URL language codes. `language_context` is
published but not read until ai_context#3586532+s
- **UI, Drush, and interface translation share one row**
- **Per-field chats.** One chat call per field today (until
ai_translate#3585527+s), same tags, so context is selected,
billed, and usage-tracked N times. Per-instance `max_tokens`
is the control; document this
- **Cached translations skip CCC.** With **Cache translation
results** on, a cache hit makes no chat call, so nothing is
pushed and no CCC usage is recorded for that field. While
push is on, entries are keyed per entity (unless the type's
share option is on) and invalidated on context item and AI
Context settings changes; rebuild the cache or turn the
setting off when every run must reach the provider
- **Batch / Drush / cron may be anonymous.** Roles fail closed,
and context item view access fails closed too, so anonymous
runs match the consumer but push no items
(`status=no_items`) unless that role has been granted access
to view context items. Run Drush with `--user` or an
equivalent account when pushed context is needed. Always
include still bypasses hard filters but not view access
- **CKEditor Translate is out of scope.** That is
`ckeditor:ai_ckeditor_translate`
- **2.x off-ramp.** If the chat-proxy path becomes an agent
later, migrate `translate:default` → `agent:{id}` and remove
this type
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] `translate` type plugin with the as-built contract
(`getRoutingRequestTags()`, `resolveConsumerId()`,
`getInstances()`, `getInstanceDefaults()`,
`getLabelRoute()`, type settings form)
- [ ] Canonical ID is `translate:default`; type plugin ID has
no colon
- [ ] Exactly one instance; not a hardcoded language-pair list
- [ ] The type does not exist without `ai_context`; no runtime
version check
- [ ] `push_enabled` defaults false; type `enabled` kill
switch works
- [ ] Selection mode follows the site default; the type does
not override the AI Context base defaults
- [ ] `resolveConsumerId()` returns `translate:default` when
tags include `ai_translate`, or `NULL`; the router keeps
`ai_agents` / `ai_assistant_api` requests off this type
- [ ] No route or language-code reconstruction fallback
- [ ] Chat tag `ai_translate` stays on the chat-proxy call
- [ ] `entity_context` is on the `ChatInput` when the
orchestrator has an entity
- [ ] `language_context` (`target`, optional `source`) is on
the `ChatInput`
- [ ] Translation cache is keyed on `entity_context` and
invalidated on AI Context item and settings changes while
push is on; unchanged while push is off or without
`ai_context`; push and type toggles invalidate the cache
- [ ] Type setting `share_entity_cache` keeps one entry per
string while pushing; off by default; stored only while
checked
- [ ] No loop-aware or Debug / Explore UI on this type
- [ ] Config schema for the type settings; no install config
- [ ] Docs cover matching, Site default (inherit) selection
mode, `entity_context`, `language_context`, native
`translate_text`, agent vs chat-proxy, per-field billing,
anonymous runs, cached translations skipping CCC, and the
share option
- [ ] Kernel + functional tests as above, plus kernel and unit
coverage for cache keying, the push gate, invalidation,
and the type settings form
## Related issues
- ai_context#3586346+s Implement plugin-based generic context consumers
- ai_context#3586535+s Store inherit as a consumer selection mode and default types to it
- ai_context#3586532+s Honor `language_context` metadata in Language scope
- ai_ckeditor#3615834+s Create AI CKEditor CCC context consumer plugin
- ai_context#3586451+s Create automators context consumer plugin
- ai_context#3586452+s Placeholder for the CKEditor type
- ai_translate#3585523+s Tool API / agent-driven translation
- ai_context#3586446+s Test CCC with AI Translate agent MR
- ai_context#3586319+s Move from agent-specific to generic context consumer API
- ai_translate#3585527+s Opt-in batch translation (per-field billing until this lands)
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