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docs: Agent Scope tutorial + OWASP Agentic matrix tutorial + reference
Tutorial 31 walks @AgentScope from 30-second quickstart through the three tiers, breach behavior, system-prompt hardening, sample-hygiene CI lint, and observability; Tutorial 32 publishes the full 10-row OWASP Agentic AI Top-10 self-assessment with CI-pin rationale; reference/governance.md gains the ScopeGuardrail SPI, audit trail, and HTTP surface for /decisions and /owasp.
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‎docs/astro.config.mjs‎

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{ label: 'Durable Sessions', slug: 'tutorial/17-durable-sessions' },
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{ label: 'Observability', slug: 'tutorial/18-observability' },
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{ label: 'Governance Policy Plane', slug: 'tutorial/30-governance-policy-plane' },
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{ label: '@AgentScope & Goal-Hijacking', slug: 'tutorial/31-agent-scope' },
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{ label: 'OWASP Agentic Top-10 Matrix', slug: 'tutorial/32-owasp-agentic-matrix' },
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{ label: 'Migration 2.x → 4.0', slug: 'tutorial/22-migration' },
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| `cost-ceiling` | `CostCeilingGuardrail` | `budget-usd: <number>` |
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### `@AgentScope` + `ScopeGuardrail`
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Annotation + SPI for architectural goal-hijacking prevention. See [tutorial 31](/docs/tutorial/31-agent-scope/) for usage.
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```java
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public @interface AgentScope {
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String purpose() default "";
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String[] forbiddenTopics() default {};
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Breach onBreach() default Breach.POLITE_REDIRECT;
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String redirectMessage() default "";
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Tier tier() default Tier.EMBEDDING_SIMILARITY;
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double similarityThreshold() default 0.45;
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boolean unrestricted() default false;
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String justification() default "";
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boolean postResponseCheck() default false;
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enum Breach { POLITE_REDIRECT, DENY, CUSTOM_MESSAGE }
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enum Tier { RULE_BASED, EMBEDDING_SIMILARITY, LLM_CLASSIFIER }
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}
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public interface ScopeGuardrail {
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AgentScope.Tier tier();
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Decision evaluate(AiRequest request, ScopeConfig config);
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record Decision(Outcome outcome, String reason, double similarity) { }
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enum Outcome { IN_SCOPE, OUT_OF_SCOPE, ERROR }
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}
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```
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Three tier implementations ship in-tree:
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- `RuleBasedScopeGuardrail` — keyword / regex + bundled hijacking probes. Sub-ms. No dependencies.
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- `EmbeddingScopeGuardrail` — cosine similarity against purpose vector via `EmbeddingRuntime`. ~5–20ms. **Default tier.**
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- `LlmClassifierScopeGuardrail` — zero-shot YES/NO against the resolved `AgentRuntime`. ~100–500ms. Opt-in via `tier = LLM_CLASSIFIER`.
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`ScopePolicy` wraps a `ScopeGuardrail` as a `GovernancePolicy` — breach decisions map via `AgentScope.Breach` to `Deny` / `Transform` (rewriting the request message to the redirect text).
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**Sample-hygiene CI lint**: `SampleAgentScopeLintTest` walks `samples/` and fails the build on any `@AiEndpoint` missing `@AgentScope` (or lacking a non-blank `justification` when `unrestricted = true`).
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**System-prompt hardening**: `AiPipeline` prepends an unbypassable confinement preamble to the system prompt on every turn when any `ScopePolicy` is installed. Even samples that call `session.stream(...)` with a substituted system prompt see the hardening re-applied before the runtime dispatch.
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### `GET /api/admin/governance/decisions?limit=N`
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Ring-buffered recent `AuditEntry` records (newest first).
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"policy_version": "1.0",
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"reason": "message matched built-in hijacking probe: 'write python code'",
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### `GET /api/admin/governance/owasp`
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OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 self-assessment — full matrix with coverage + evidence pointers per row. Pairs with external `agt verify`-style compliance tooling.
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1. **`AuditEntry`** — structured record (policy identity, decision, reason, context snapshot, `evaluation_ms`) ring-buffered by `GovernanceDecisionLog` (default 500 entries). Surfaced via `GET /api/admin/governance/decisions?limit=N`.
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2. **OpenTelemetry span** — `governance.policy.evaluate` with attributes `policy.name`, `policy.source`, `policy.version`, `policy.phase`, `policy.decision`, `policy.reason`. Denied / errored spans carry status `ERROR` for Jaeger / Tempo visibility. Reflective classpath detection keeps OTel an optional dependency.
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The context snapshot is redaction-safe: message truncated to 200 chars, metadata values coerced to primitives or `toString()`. Long-term retention is operator responsibility — wire to Kafka / Postgres / etc. by reading `GovernanceDecisionLog.installed().recent(N)` on a schedule.
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`OwaspAgenticMatrix.MATRIX` is a CI-pinned self-assessment (see [tutorial 32](/docs/tutorial/32-owasp-agentic-matrix/) for the full reading and rationale). `OwaspMatrixPinTest` fails the build if any referenced `Evidence.evidenceClass` or `Evidence.testClass` no longer exists. Served over HTTP at `GET /api/admin/governance/owasp`.
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title: "@AgentScope & Goal-Hijacking Prevention"
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description: "Architectural scope enforcement — prompt-engineered scope is paper-thin; @AgentScope makes the framework refuse off-topic requests before they reach the LLM."
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The McDonald's support bot that answered a user's request to reverse a Python linked list (April 2026) is the canonical failure mode this chapter prevents. Prompt-engineered scope ("you are a customer support agent, only answer about orders") is paper-thin — any LLM will answer anything it can unless something outside the prompt layer enforces confinement.
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`@AgentScope` is Atmosphere's architectural scope enforcement. It moves scope from the prompt into the framework at three layers:
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- **Sample**: [`samples/spring-boot-ms-governance-chat`](https://github.com/Atmosphere/atmosphere/tree/main/samples/spring-boot-ms-governance-chat) — declares `@AgentScope(purpose = "Customer support ...")` and mirrors MS customer-service rule set
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- **Previous chapter**: [@AgentScope & Goal-Hijacking Prevention](/docs/tutorial/31-agent-scope/)
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- **Upstream**: [OWASP Agentic AI Top 10](https://genai.owasp.org/resource/agentic-ai-top-10/)

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