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feat(plugins): add AuthorityRoutingPlugin — pre-execution authority posture (ADVISE/EXECUTE/DEFER/STOP)

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## Problem

Tool schemas and permissions govern *access* — which tools exist and who may call them. They do not govern *authorization*: whether the agent was allowed to act **at all** for a given request, and within what scope. That gap is where three recurring agent failures live:

- **advice becomes action** — the user asked for a recommendation and the agent executed anyway;
- **scope expansion** — one bounded edit ballooned into a dependent workflow;
- **missing approval** — an approval was clearly required and the agent proceeded.

`AgentGovernancePlugin` (policy-as-code allow/deny) and the HITL approval gateway answer *"is this tool call permitted by policy?"*. Neither answers *"was the agent authorized to act at all, and within what scope?"* — and both require external infrastructure (a policy engine / an approval service).

## Proposal

Add `AuthorityRoutingPlugin`, a self-contained `BasePlugin` that assigns an **authority posture** to every tool call before it runs:

| Posture | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| ADVISE | Recommendations only; no tool side effects. |
| EXECUTE | Act, within an explicitly bounded scope. |
| DEFER | Pause and request authorization when scope/approval is unclear. |
| STOP | Refuse when the work is not allowed. |

Two stages produce the final posture:

1. **Posture router** (optional, caller-supplied callable — typically a model call) returning a validated verdict with a scope statement.
2. **Deterministic guard** — an irreversibility keyword tripwire + an approval-state check — composed with the router under **most-restrictive-wins**: plain code can only make a posture *stricter*, never looser.

Design properties:

- **Fail-closed** — an unparseable or raised router verdict defaults to DEFER.
- **Guard-only mode** (no router) is fully deterministic and needs no model and no extra dependency.
- Complements, rather than duplicates, the existing governance plugins.

## Scope

- `src/google/adk_community/plugins/authority_routing_plugin.py` + export
- `tests/plugins/test_authority_routing_plugin.py` (deterministic, no credentials)
- `contributing/samples/authority_routing/` (runnable sample with live output)

Happy to adjust the API surface or placement to match maintainer preferences. I have an implementation ready and will open a PR referencing this issue.

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Línea de trabajo

Empieza leyendo el comportamiento existente de BasePlugin y del plugin de gobernanza; después, revisa las rutas propuestas en src/google/adk_community/plugins/authority_routing_plugin.py y tests/plugins/test_authority_routing_plugin.py. Añade pruebas deterministas para el enrutamiento de postura, el manejo fail-closed, el tripwire de irreversibilidad, las comprobaciones de aprobación y el comportamiento de que prevalezca la opción más restrictiva, además del ejemplo ejecutable en contributing/samples/authority_routing/. La tarea estará terminada cuando el plugin se exporte y el ejemplo produzca una salida en vivo sin credenciales.

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Evaluación

Stack tecnológico
python
Área
security
Tipo de issue
Nueva funcionalidad
Dificultad
5/5
Tiempo estimado
Más de una semana
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
Claridad
Bastante claro
Aptitud para principiantes
45/100

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