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docs: Contributor guidelines for creating Internal or External providers (#3111)

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**Description:** 
Adding information and guidelines on when contributors should create an
in-tree vs out-of-tree provider.


Im still learning a bit about this subject so Im very open to feedback
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Will also add this section to the API Providers section of the docs
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@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ Here are some example PRs to help you get started:
- [Nvidia Inference Implementation](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/pull/355)
- [Model context protocol Tool Runtime](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/pull/665)
## Guidelines for creating Internal or External Providers
|**Type** |Internal (In-tree) |External (out-of-tree)
|---------|-------------------|---------------------|
|**Description** |A provider that is directly in the Llama Stack code|A provider that is outside of the Llama stack core codebase but is still accessible and usable by Llama Stack.
|**Benefits** |Ability to interact with the provider with minimal additional configurations or installations| Contributors do not have to add directly to the code to create providers accessible on Llama Stack. Keep provider-specific code separate from the core Llama Stack code.
## Inference Provider Patterns
When implementing Inference providers for OpenAI-compatible APIs, Llama Stack provides several mixin classes to simplify development and ensure consistent behavior across providers.