Add new GitHub Actions workflow for Copilot environment setup

.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml

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+name: "Copilot Setup Steps"
+
+# Automatically run the setup steps when they are changed to allow for easy validation, and
+# allow manual testing through the repository's "Actions" tab
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
+
+jobs:
+  # The job MUST be called `copilot-setup-steps` or it will not be picked up by Copilot.
+  copilot-setup-steps:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.13"]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    # Set the permissions to the lowest permissions possible needed for your steps.
+    permissions:
+      # If you want to clone the repository as part of your setup steps,
+      # for example to install dependencies, you'll need the `contents: read` permission.
+      contents: read
+
+    # Any steps you define will run before the agent starts.
+    # If you do not check out your code, Copilot will do this for you.
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - uses: actions/cache@v5
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}
+          key: ${{ runner.OS }}-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('requirements/REQUIREMENTS-CI.txt') }}
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: |
+          make install-dev
+
+      - name: flake8 linting and mypy static type checker
+        run: |
+          make lint mypy