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What is a Spring AI 'Advisor', and what problem does it solve?

An Advisor is an interceptor that wraps a `ChatClient` call, letting you inject cross-cutting behavior (logging, adding conversation memory, retrieval augmentation) around every request/response without repeating that logic at every call site — similar in spirit to a servlet filter, but for AI calls specifically.

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