## Summary
This pull request introduces an Azure DevOps pipeline that automates the benchmarking process for our project. The pipeline is designed to run under specific conditions and ensures that the benchmarking results are committed and published as artifacts. Additionally, the pipeline generates detailed benchmark reports in markdown format.
**Key Features:**
1. **Triggering Conditions:**
- Triggered on creation of branches matching `refs/heads/release/*`.
- Runs automatically at 2 AM every weekday for the `dev` branch.
2. **Version Handling:**
- Updates the version number with a `+dev.YYYYMMDD` suffix for the `dev` branch.
3. **Dependency Installation:**
- Sets up Python 3.11 and installs project dependencies, including development and reinforcement learning extras.
4. **Benchmark Execution:**
- Runs the benchmarking script and stores results in a version-based directory structure.
- Generates detailed markdown reports for benchmark results.
5. **Commit and Push Results:**
- Commits and pushes benchmark results for release branches.
6. **Artifact Preparation and Publishing:**
- Packages benchmark results into a tarball and publishes it as a pipeline artifact.
## Checklist
- [X] PR is linked to a **work item**
- [X] **acceptance criteria** of linked ticket are met
- [X] performed **self-review** of the code
- [ ] written **tests** for any new functionality added with this PR
- [ ] updated the **documentation** if this PR changes or adds functionality
- [ ] written/updated **design docs** if this PR implements new functionality
- [ ] updated the **change log**
- [X] ran **pre-commit** checks for code style
- [ ] attended to any **TO-DOs** left in the code
Related work items: #2648
## Summary
Updates Pre-commit with the a check to ensure valid copyright headers
## Test process
*How have you tested this (if applicable)?*
## Checklist
- [X] PR is linked to a **work item**
- [ ] **acceptance criteria** of linked ticket are met
- [ ] performed **self-review** of the code
- [ ] written **tests** for any new functionality added with this PR
- [ ] updated the **documentation** if this PR changes or adds functionality
- [ ] written/updated **design docs** if this PR implements new functionality
- [ ] updated the **change log**
- [ ] ran **pre-commit** checks for code style
- [ ] attended to any **TO-DOs** left in the code
Related work items: #2646
## Summary
- Integrates the NIC traffic into the observation space
- Added `monitored_traffic` property into agent config which specifies which traffic is going to be included in observation
## Test process
https://dev.azure.com/ma-dev-uk/PrimAITE/_git/PrimAITE/pullrequest/419?_a=files&path=/tests/integration_tests/game_layer/observations/test_nic_observations.py
## Checklist
- [X] PR is linked to a **work item**
- [X] **acceptance criteria** of linked ticket are met
- [X] performed **self-review** of the code
- [X] written **tests** for any new functionality added with this PR
- [ ] updated the **documentation** if this PR changes or adds functionality
- [ ] written/updated **design docs** if this PR implements new functionality
- [ ] updated the **change log**
- [X] ran **pre-commit** checks for code style
- [ ] attended to any **TO-DOs** left in the code
Related work items: #2658
## Summary
Add to the config placeholder notebook. Now we also explain how to vary the simulation between episodes.
## Test process
precommit pass. notebook runs.
## Checklist
- [ ] PR is linked to a **work item**
- [ ] **acceptance criteria** of linked ticket are met
- [ ] performed **self-review** of the code
- [ ] written **tests** for any new functionality added with this PR
- [ ] updated the **documentation** if this PR changes or adds functionality
- [ ] written/updated **design docs** if this PR implements new functionality
- [ ] updated the **change log**
- [ ] ran **pre-commit** checks for code style
- [ ] attended to any **TO-DOs** left in the code
#2502 add more info about config placeholders
Related work items: #2502
## Summary
The build-docs pipeline has been failing to run. This PR corrects it.
## Test process
Link to successfully running:
https://dev.azure.com/ma-dev-uk/PrimAITE/_build/results?buildId=4849&view=results
Previous failures can be seen in the pipeline history.
## Checklist
- [ ] PR is linked to a **work item**
- [ ] **acceptance criteria** of linked ticket are met
- [ ] performed **self-review** of the code
- [ ] written **tests** for any new functionality added with this PR
- [ ] updated the **documentation** if this PR changes or adds functionality
- [ ] written/updated **design docs** if this PR implements new functionality
- [ ] updated the **change log**
- [ ] ran **pre-commit** checks for code style
- [ ] attended to any **TO-DOs** left in the code
One line change to try and resolve build docs pipeline failure
Related work items: #2659
