AI (chatbot) plugin

[tadayosi]

Create an experimental AI chatbot plugin that incorporates:

• https://github.com/jolokia/jolokia-mcp-server
• https://www.patternfly.org/patternfly-ai/chatbot/about-chatbot/

[tadayosi]

We discussed the development strategy for the plugin internally and reached the following decision:

We will develop the externalized AI plugin as a project independent of the hawtio-react project. The AI plugin will utilize the Plugin API exposed by @hawtio/react to either replicate the views of existing plugins (e.g., JMX, Camel) or implement and provide its own custom views. We will also consider embedding AI functionality directly into the console by leveraging the extension points provided by the Hawtio core.

The Plugin API on the @hawtio/react side may be extended and exposed as necessary to meet the requirements of the AI plugin. In parallel with the Plugin API, the Hawtio core will also add or enhance these extension points as necessary to support the implementation of these features.

The AI plugin will be published as both an NPM package and a Maven artifact. Hawtio Standalone and users' custom console applications can bundle the AI plugin into their consoles by simply adding it as a dependency via NPM or Maven.

[tadayosi]

And the other notable decisions besides the development strategy are as follows:

• The AI functionality would be a plugin that then could be avoided for those projects / users not interested in AI;
• Research needed into the best way to allow interaction from the user with the AI, ie. not necessarily a generalised chatbot but a designed UI where we / developers can control the questions asked. This would include the best way to ensure the external tools for fetching the JMX beans are fully utilised;
• Consideration of the accuracy and comprehensibility of the tools' description to ensure they are employed by the AI;
• Determination that Hawtio-Online would not be a target of implementation at this time .