GitLab Duo Agent Platform with Claude accelerates development

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Introduces the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, enabling the creation of external agents that integrate with external AI models (e.g., Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex). These agents can autonomously complete complex, multi-step tasks within the GitLab environment, including generating full-stack applications from issue descriptions, performing comprehensive code reviews with detailed analysis and recommendations, and creating CI/CD pipelines to build container images and deploy to GitLab's container registry. The platform aims to address the problem of isolated AI tools by bringing intelligent automation directly into the development workflow.