GIA/artifacts/plans/10-policy-engine-middleware.md

Feature Plan: Policy Engine Middleware

Goal

Implement deterministic middleware policies for inbound/outbound message transforms and automations.

Why This Fits GIA

• Existing command/task/approval flows provide natural control points.

Scope

• Per-chat and per-person policy rules.
• Rule actions: notify, suggest rewrite, create task, rate-limit send, require approval.
• Dry-run/audit mode for every policy decision.

Implementation

1. Add policy schema and evaluator (if conditions -> actions).
2. Hook evaluator into compose send and inbound task intelligence paths.
3. Add policy decision logs with trace IDs.
4. Add UI for policy creation/testing with preview mode.
5. Add safe defaults: all transform rules start as suggest-only.

Acceptance Criteria

• Policy decisions are deterministic and replayable.
• Any transform is visibly annotated in UI.
• Users can disable policy per chat instantly.

Out of Scope

• Natural-language-to-policy compiler in first release.