[feature] Improvements to code generation templates about moon HOT 5 OPEN

Landing some of this here: #1398

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All great ideas. A few comments:

• Sort prompts - Would an order config for each prompt be enough for this?
• Conditional prompts - This seems tricky, but maybe doable if other things land first.
• Internal variables - Easy enough.
• Dynamic template chain - Would have to look into.
• Automatic template help - We'll be adding template related commands in the future.
• Shared mutable memory properties - Would have to look into.
• Iterate variables - I think you can use __tera_context for this: https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/#variables

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@milesj great to hear there are! I see moon as the tool that will be always there, so the greater its template support the better! 🥳

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Looks like I forgot to actually send the detailed response:

• Sort prompts - Would an order config for each prompt be enough for this?

For sorting, yes. But if you ever want to support prompt flows, maybe it is better to move it to an array of objects.

• Conditional prompts - This seems tricky, but maybe doable if other things land first.

There's a way you can add features little by little and get conditional, and a more flexible prompt flow, way better than sorted

1. Make it an array which allows ordering
2. Make it a tree by add a prompts property to a prompt. Order moves to a depth-first tree walk
3. add a guard|when property to the prompt, and only go down the tree if the parent value matches the guard

It could look something like this (I'm sure you'll pick better names):

variables:
  - name: color
    type: 'enum'
    values: ['red', 'green']
    default: 'red'
    prompt: 'Favorite color?'
    
    next: 
      # only one will execute
      # but that can be decided by the tree visitor
      # there's no need to pre-evaluate the flow
      - case: 'red' 
        name: question_1
        type: string
        prompt: 'Name 3 red fruits'

        next: # both will be executed
          # no case here
          - name: question_2
            type: string
            prompt: 'Another red question'

          # neither here
          - name: question_3
            type: string
            prompt: 'Another red question'

      - case: 'green'
        name: question_1
        type: string
        prompt: 'Name 3 mostly green country flags'
        next:
          - ...

• Iterate variables - I think you can use __tera_context for this: https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/#variables

I tried but it doesn't work. As they say, it is a magical... I guess it is magical because you can't touch it, only print it lol

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Landed some of these in v1.23.

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