Add greeting handler for agent interactions

[Copilot]

The agent lacked basic conversational affordances for initial user interactions.

Changes

• Greeting detection (main.py): Added handle_greeting() that intercepts common greetings (hi, hello, hey, etc.) and returns a welcome message with capability overview and example queries, bypassing agent invocation for zero-value interactions

• Documentation (README.md): Updated Agent Workflow section to reflect greeting handler

• Repository hygiene (.gitignore): Added standard Python exclusions

Example

# Input: "hi"
# Output: Welcome message with examples, no API call

# Input: "Find advisers for Form D accession 0000005108-25-000002"
# Output: Agent processes query normally

The handler uses simple string matching with case-insensitive prefix checks, returning None for non-greetings to fall through to normal agent execution.

Original prompt

hi

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