Document canopen PR #613 flaw + add GitHub URL fetching to chatbot

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PR #613 in canopen-python/canopen claims to fix PDO lookup by Mapping Parameter Index but introduces an incomplete range check that silently breaks RPDO Communication record access. The chatbot lacked any capability to fetch and reason about external GitHub issues/PRs.

Flaw in PR #613 — PdoBase.__getitem__ range check

The guard added by PR #613:

if (
    0 < key <= 512
    or 0x1600 <= key <= 0x1BFF   # ← wrong lower bound
):
    return self.map[key]

The comment says "mapping or communication record" but 0x1600 is 512 below the correct start. Per CiA 301:

Range	Meaning	Covered?
0x1400–0x15FF	RPDO Communication params	❌
0x1600–0x17FF	RPDO Mapping params	✅
0x1800–0x19FF	TPDO Communication params	✅
0x1A00–0x1BFF	TPDO Mapping params	✅

node.rpdo[0x1400] silently falls through the guard into the O(N) variable-name scan loop and raises a confusing KeyError. node.tpdo[0x1800] works because 0x1800 happens to be inside the (wrong) range — the bug is asymmetric and the tests don't cover the RPDO path. The PR is also still marked Draft.

Fix is a one-word bound change: 0x1400 <= key <= 0x1BFF.

Changes

• QUICK_REFERENCE.md — New section with full flaw analysis: table, before/after code, asymmetry explanation, and fix.
• src/prompts.py — Example 4 baked into the system prompt so the chatbot answers PR #613 analysis questions from pre-loaded knowledge; also adds Step 4 workflow for URL-based questions.
• src/services/data_analyst_agent.py — New fetch_url_content_tool: detects GitHub issue/PR URLs, rewrites them to the GitHub REST API for clean JSON, falls back to raw HTTP for other URLs. Wired into ALL_TOOLS, tool_executor_node, and the streaming event handler. Uses stdlib urllib only — no new dependencies.
• chainlit_app.py — Welcome message updated with GitHub URL example queries.

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