Guide for diff/plan server

[sergenyalcin]

Description of your changes

This PR adds a guide/doc for the diff/plan server.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a guide to the Diff Server protocol. It describes provider integration, supported behavior, limitations, and example plan requests. The documentation index now links to the guide.

Changes

Diff Server documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol requirements and limitations docs/diff-server.md, docs/README.md	Documents provider integration requirements, supported behavior, protocol limitations, and adds an index link to the guide.
Server and plan examples docs/diff-server.md	Adds examples for starting and inspecting the server, requesting update and create plans, reporting replacements, resolving Secret references, and handling unsupported computation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 60589

The guide’s previously questioned Secret behavior and response example are accurate at the reviewed head. No actionable merge risk remains after normal checks.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 7

✅ Passed checks (7 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is 26 characters, stays under 72 characters, and clearly describes the documentation change for the diff/plan server.
Description check		The description accurately states that the pull request adds a guide for the diff/plan server and relates directly to the changeset.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Configuration Api Breaking Changes		The pull-request diff changes only docs/README.md and adds docs/diff-server.md. It contains no changes under pkg/config/**, so it does not introduce a configuration API breaking change.
Generated Code Manual Edits		The pull request changes only docs/README.md and adds docs/diff-server.md. No changed file matches the zz_*.go pattern, so the explicit failure condition is not met.
Template Breaking Changes		The pull request changes only docs/README.md and adds docs/diff-server.md. The authoritative diff contains no changes to pkg/controller/external*.go, so it cannot introduce template-driven gener…

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Review comments at @docs/diff-server.md:
- Line 231: Update the FieldChange response example in the docs to use the
protobuf JSON key field instead of field_path, preserving the existing example
value.
- Around line 90-92: Update the Secret behavior documentation in the diff-server
guide: state that successful lookups use the secretResolvedMarker without
exposing or using the decoded Secret value in Terraform diff computation, and
that missing Secrets emit ABSENCE_UNRESOLVED and remain in the diff with that
marker. Remove the claims that unavailable Secrets are not emitted and that
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[jonasz-lasut]

Thank you @sergenyalcin the guide is clear and easy to read, LGMT!