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[8.19] Update dependency ai to v5 (#244675)#245564
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This will backport the following commits from main to 8.19:

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## Summary

- Update dependency ai to v5
- Addressed the breaking changes

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### Security Checklist:
**Purpose** – `@ai-sdk/langchain` provides the official adapter that
converts LangChain's `Runnable.stream()` output into the AI SDK v5 `UI
message stream` format. We use it in the search playground's
conversational chain so the existing LangChain pipeline can feed the new
createUIMessageStream/SSE infrastructure without rewriting the entire
chain logic.

**Justification** – AI SDK v5 moved the LangChain adapter out of the
core `ai` package; the only supported way to keep LangChain models
streaming into UI chunks is this package. Using the upstream adapter
keeps us aligned with Vercel's protocol changes (LC stream events, chunk
metadata, etc.) and avoids maintaining fragile, duplicate conversion
code in Kibana.

**Alternatives explored** –We looked at copying the old adapter logic,
but the new UI chunk format (text, tools, reasoning, data events)
changes quickly and is easy to get wrong. Reimplementing it ourselves
would be brittle and hard to maintain, so we rely on the upstream
package instead.

**Existing dependencies** – Kibana already depends on LangChain itself
and on the base `ai` SDK, but neither now exposes a LangChain to UI
stream bridge. `@ai-sdk/langchain` is the upstream successor to what
used to be bundled in `ai`, so it’s effectively continuing the same
capability with ongoing support, making it the preferred and only viable
option.

### Checklist

Check the PR satisfies following conditions.

Reviewers should verify this PR satisfies this list as well.

- [X] [Unit or functional
tests](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-tests.html)
were updated or added to match the most common scenarios

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Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Elastic Machine <elasticmachine@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 81c6347)

# Conflicts:
#	.buildkite/scripts/steps/security/third_party_packages.txt
#	package.json
#	x-pack/solutions/search/plugins/search_playground/public/utils/stream.ts
#	x-pack/solutions/search/plugins/search_playground/server/lib/conversational_chain.test.ts
#	x-pack/solutions/search/plugins/search_playground/server/lib/conversational_chain.ts
#	yarn.lock
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@Samiul-TheSoccerFan Samiul-TheSoccerFan merged commit 88ebca8 into elastic:8.19 Dec 9, 2025
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