Create a new Policy

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A Policy is essentially a function that takes the history of previous steps and decides what action to take next. Note that whenever a user enters input, this is ingested as a "UserInputStep".

As an example, consider the DefaultPolicy here. It does the following:

• If there is not history, show the welcome message.
• If the previous step is not a UserInputStep, stop and wait for the next one
• Parse the user input for slash commands or custom commands and either
  • Run the slash/custom command
  • Run EditHighlightedCodeStep if input starts with '/edit'
  • Otherwise, run SimpleChatStep

Policy ideas:

• Whenever the last step was an EditHighlightedCode, run a "review" step that looks over the code, either just by passing to an LLM, or by linting, running the code, or checking for certain properties (ideally configurable by the user)
• Generate code from scratch: Define a goal at the beginning of the policy, and then run steps that repeatedly write code, add features, and check in with the current status of the goal

[sestinj]

Closed because the Policy concept is no longer used at all in Continue