[Tracking Issue]: Refactor Chat to No-magic Chat

[abeatrix]

[Beatrix + Beyang + Tim] No-magic Chat

Design: #1377

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1. feat: add experimental chat panel #1486
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2. VSCE: Re-evaluate experimental features in settings menu #1521
   chat/commands cody/vscode +2
   
3. VSCE: “Sign Out” needs a confirmation #1520
   chat/commands clients/vscode +2
4. refactor: update preamble rules and mixin #1442
   chat/commands clients/vscode +2
5. VSCE: Improve Generate Unit Tests command #1475
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   chat/commands clients/vscode cody/vscode dec-ga/vscode +4
   
6. VSCE: New Chat - Move chat from sidebar to panel #1522
   chat/commands cody/vscode +2
   
7. VSCE: New Chat - @ file context via chat input #1523
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   chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
   
8. VSCE: New Chat - Enhance Context selector #1524
   chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
   
9. VSCE: New Chat context display widget #1525
   chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
   
10. VSCE: New Chat - LLM provider intergration #1526
    chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
    
11. VSCE - Evaluate Chat Quality #1527
    chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
12. Add Tests for new Chat UI

[abeatrix]

@toolmantim I think I have implemented lost of the expected features for the new chat design that are listed in this issus. I started the works on improving the test command and commands in general, found some bugs I need to fix, as well as looking into the Cody ignore file, but I will keep working on polishing the UI following Tim's figma more closely.

In the meantime, can you please let me know if there are any high priority features that I haven't worked on yet?

• One thing I can think of is the token counting pop up when a file is too big, which I am not sure if we have a reliable way to do it.

• Another thing is the welcome view of the chat (hello I'm Cody) In Tim's design that area is empty. Can you confirm if that's the design and I should remove all the current welcome text? For both new and existing users?

Anything else?

[beyang]

Closing this, will pull in the remaining issue into the project board separately