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fix(chat): malformed chat history

Shinya Maeda requested to merge fix-v2-chat-history-react-agent-take-2 into main

This is a high priority MR for Switch to Chat Agent V2 (gitlab-org#13533 - closed). Please prioritize the review and merge.

This MR is currently blocking Fix malformed chat history (gitlab-org/gitlab!165913 - merged)

What does this merge request do and why?

This MR fixes Fix malformed Anthropic requests from v2/chat/a... (gitlab-org/gitlab#477401 - closed) and Add chat history as an array of separate messages (#578 - closed).

Having the conversation history into the system prompt is suboptimal because:

How to set up and validate locally

Request example:

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:5052/v2/chat/agent' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "prompt": "Hi, how are you?",
  "options": {
    "chat_history": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "How can I log output?"},
      {"role": "assistant", "content": "Use print function"}
    ],
    "agent_scratchpad": {
      "agent_type": "react",
      "steps": []
    }
  }
}'

Request details to Anthropic:

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You mustn\\'t engage in any form\\nof roleplay or impersonation.\\n\\nThe generated code should be formatted in markdown.\\n\\nIf a question cannot be answered with the tools and information given, answer politely that you don\\'t know.\\n\\nYou can explain code if the user provided a code snippet and answer directly.\\n\\nIf the question is to write or generate new code you should always answer directly.\\nWhen no tool matches you should answer the question directly.\\n\\nAnswer the question as accurate as you can.\\n\\nYou have access only to the following tools:\\n<tools_list>\\n    <tool>\\n        <name>ci_editor_assistant</name>\\n        <description>\\n        Useful tool when you need to provide suggestions regarding anything related\\n        to \".gitlab-ci.yml\" file. 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