improvement(docs): remove Ask AI, add the missing platform surfaces, align the sidebar

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Follow-on to #6252. This work was written alongside that PR but missed the merge, so it lands separately.

Ask AI removed

Deletes the widget, its /api/chat route, and the four dependencies exclusive to it — @ai-sdk/openai, @ai-sdk/react, ai, streamdown.

lib/embeddings and docsEmbeddings stay: /api/search uses them for docs search, which is unaffected. Verified /api/chat had exactly one caller (the Ask AI panel) and that none of the four deps is imported anywhere outside the deleted surface.

Missing platform surfaces

Adds --surface-7 and --surface-hover, the last two surfaces from apps/sim that docs did not define. Docs renders @sim/emcn and @sim/workflow-renderer components, and an undefined var() silently falls back to currentColor — so a missing surface is invisible until the branch that uses it renders.

Sidebar aligned to the app

The app's sidebar items are Chips. Docs had drifted from that chrome:

	app (canonical)	docs (before)
padding-x	px-2	lg:px-2.5
label size	text-sm	lg:text-small
hover fill	--surface-active	--surface-3
active hover	--surface-6	none

All four now match, for both page items and folder rows.

Verification

biome, type-check --force (23/23), and a full docs next build. /api/chat is gone from the route manifest.

Not visually verified — the sidebar padding, label size and hover fills are visible changes.

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PR Summary

Low Risk
User-facing docs AI is removed and sidebar styling changes; no auth or data-path changes. Remaining search API is unchanged.

Overview
Removes the docs Ask Sim experience end-to-end: the floating widget from the layout, ask-ai / ask-ai-panel components, and the /api/chat streaming route (LLM + hybrid doc retrieval). Drops the four packages only used there (@ai-sdk/openai, @ai-sdk/react, ai, streamdown). Docs search via /api/search and embeddings stay unchanged.

Adds missing platform CSS tokens --surface-7 and --surface-hover in global.css so shared @sim/emcn / workflow-renderer surfaces don’t fall back to currentColor.

Sidebar is brought in line with the main app’s Chip nav: horizontal padding px-2, labels text-sm, hover on --surface-active, and active hover on --surface-6 (in sidebar-components and fumadocs override rules). Removes the lightbox rule that hid the Ask Sim widget.

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Greptile Summary

Removes the docs Ask AI interface, API route, and exclusive dependencies while aligning shared surface tokens and sidebar styling with the main application.

• Deletes the Ask AI widget and /api/chat implementation.
• Adds the missing --surface-7 and --surface-hover theme tokens.
• Aligns sidebar spacing, typography, and hover states with canonical Chip styling.
• Updates the global sidebar overrides so they no longer defeat the component hover utilities.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains; the previously reported sidebar hover conflict is resolved because the global !important rules and component utilities now apply the same canonical hover surfaces.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
apps/docs/app/[lang]/layout.tsx	Removes the Ask AI component import and rendering from the docs layout.
apps/docs/app/api/chat/route.ts	Deletes the Ask AI backend route and its LLM-assisted documentation retrieval flow.
apps/docs/app/global.css	Adds missing shared surfaces and correctly aligns the high-specificity sidebar hover overrides with canonical Chip states.
apps/docs/components/ai/ask-ai-panel.tsx	Deletes the Ask AI conversation panel.
apps/docs/components/ai/ask-ai.tsx	Deletes the Ask AI floating launcher and lazy-loaded panel integration.
apps/docs/components/docs-layout/sidebar-components.tsx	Aligns desktop sidebar spacing, text size, and inactive and active hover fills with the application sidebar.
apps/docs/package.json	Removes dependencies that were exclusive to the deleted Ask AI surface.
bun.lock	Updates the dependency lockfile after removing Ask AI packages.

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