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Add blueprint for Codebase as Chat Context

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add-codebase-as-chat-context into main

Why is this change being made?

This blueprint is for the "Codebase as Chat Context" initiative, with the corresponding epic in Semantic search: chat with your codebase (gitlab-org&16910). This addresses the questions of how to include "codebase" as an additional context in the IDE Chat, with semantic search done over the provided codebase.

This MR contains main blueprint, with specifics on the implementation for the Duo Chat-related changes. The blueprint for the Code Embeddings indexing is in a separate MR: Blueprint: Codebase as Chat Context: Code Embed... (!12808 - merged). That will be linked in this blueprint once it's merged (possibly in a follow-up MR).

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  • Introduce Codebase as Chat Context ADD

Edited by Pam Artiaga

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