[FEAT]: User Profile Custom Metadata Fields

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What would you like to see?

Problem/Use Case:

Currently, AnythingLLM only provides two user-specific variables ({user.name} and {user.bio}). For organizations and power users, there's often a need to pass additional user-specific context to the system prompt, such as:

• User role/department
• User preferences (communication style, expertise level)
• User location/timezone
• User-specific business context (territory, account type, subscription tier)
• Custom organizational fields

Proposed Solution:

Add the ability to define and store custom metadata fields on user profiles that can be referenced in system prompts using the existing variable syntax.

Implementation Ideas:

1. Admin Configuration: Add a "User Profile Fields" section in admin settings where admins can define custom fields:

   • Field name (e.g., "role", "department", "expertise_level")
   • Field type (text, dropdown, multi-select, etc.)
   • Optional: Default values

2. User Profile UI: Extend the user profile page to display and edit these custom fields

3. Variable Access: Make these fields accessible in system prompts as {user.field_name}, similar to existing {user.name} and {user.bio}

Example Usage:

You are an AI assistant for {company_name}.

The user's name is {user.name} and they are a {user.role} in the {user.department} department.
Their expertise level is: {user.expertise_level}
Their preferred communication style is: {user.communication_style}

{user.bio}

Benefits:

• Enables more personalized and context-aware AI interactions
• Supports organizational use cases without code changes
• Maintains the existing variable pattern users are familiar with
• Allows dynamic per-user context vs. static global variables