Support for `external` predicates.

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the extension's query execution and result-input handling, then determine how external predicates and prior query runs would fit; done means both requested capabilities are supported and verified.

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Description

enhancement QL4E parity VSCode

Add ability to run queries with predicates marked external, and ability to use prior query runs as input data for external predicates. This would allow very flexible custom notions of comparison and filtering of previous query results.

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