fix(ci): repair Docs Code Tests — C# build, latest released client pins, snippet fixes + documented skips

[g-despot]

What & why

The scheduled Docs Code Tests run was red across all 5 language jobs (silently — the test steps run with continue-on-error, so the jobs showed green while individual snippet tests failed). This restores it to fully green: 73 → 0 real failures (verified end-to-end on CI run 27547415033 against this branch).

The failures were almost never snippet bugs — they were version drift (docs merged ahead of client/server releases) plus shared-instance flakiness.

Changes

C# build break (recovered all 38 C# tests)

• ModelProvidersTest.cs: add using System.Collections.Generic; (DigitalOcean snippet used Dictionary<,>; the test csproj has no ImplicitUsings) — fixed CS0246.
• docs_tests.yml: bump the C# client pin 1.1.0 → 1.1.1 (the text2vec-digitalocean vectorizer ships in 1.1.1, not 1.1.0) — fixed CS1061.

Pin all clients to latest released versions

• TypeScript client main → v3.13.1, Java client main → 6.2.0, Python weaviate-client 4.21.0 → 4.21.3 (+ regenerated uv.lock). C# already at 1.1.1; weaviate-agents already latest.

Snippet/test fixes

• Python llms-txt/python/local_setup.py: delete a leftover Movie collection before create (was 422 already exists).
• Agents advanced_collections.mts + query_agent.mts: populateWeaviate(client, true) so ECommerce is recreated with the name_description_brand_vector named vector (was WEAVIATE_NAMED_VECTOR_ERROR).

Excluded

• DigitalOcean ModelProviders tests — C# [Fact(Skip)], Java @Disabled (require DIGITALOCEAN_APIKEY, not in CI).
• search_mode.py FilteringExample no longer executed (the filtering arg is merged in weaviate-agents but unreleased post-1.5.0); kept as a docs snippet and added a "Python availability" note to the Search Mode guide.

Skipped — release/infra-blocked (cannot be fixed in this repo)

• C# + Java RBACTest: released Java 6.2.0 / C# 1.1.1 clients can't deserialize the namespaces RBAC permission that Weaviate 1.35.0 emits in its built-in roles (the Python client can). Re-enable after a client release adds it.
• C# ReplicationTest + ManageCollections.{TestAsyncRepair, TestAllReplicationSettings}: replication assertions need a stable multi-node cluster; flaky in CI.

Every skip carries a reason=/Skip= string so re-enabling is trivial.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

• Publish weaviate-agents > 1.5.0 → re-enables search_mode filtering.
• Java/C# client release supporting the namespaces RBAC permission → re-enable RBACTest.
• Add DIGITALOCEAN_APIKEY CI secret → re-enable DigitalOcean tests.
• Test isolation for the shared cloud instance (residual flakiness).

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Orca Security Scan Summary

Status	Check	Issues by priority
Passed	Infrastructure as Code	0   0   0   0	View in Orca
Passed	SAST	0   0   0   0	View in Orca
Passed	Secrets	0   0   0   0	View in Orca
Passed	Vulnerabilities	0   0   0   0	View in Orca

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Restores reliability and correctness of the scheduled Docs Code Tests CI by aligning doc-snippet tests with currently released client versions and making snippet/test execution more deterministic (plus documenting/encoding intentional skips for unreleased/infra-blocked cases).

Changes:

• Pin CI client builds to released versions (TypeScript, Java, C#, Python weaviate-client) to eliminate version drift failures.
• Fix flakiness in agents snippets by recreating shared test collections and cleaning up pre-existing state.
• Add explicit, documented skips for tests that cannot pass in CI due to missing secrets or known client/server incompatibilities.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 12 out of 13 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
uv.lock	Updates the locked weaviate-client Python dependency to 4.21.3.
pyproject.toml	Pins weaviate-client to 4.21.3 to match the lockfile.
.github/workflows/docs_tests.yml	Pins CI-built client refs (TS/Java/C#) to released versions/tags.
tests/test_java.py	Skips RBACTest with a concrete reason (client RBAC deserialization gap).
tests/test_csharp.py	Skips RBACTest and ReplicationTest with concrete reasons (client gap / CI flakiness).
docs/query-agent/_includes/code/query_agent.mts	Forces ECommerce recreation to avoid named-vector drift on shared instances.
docs/query-agent/_includes/code/advanced_collections.mts	Same ECommerce recreation for determinism in advanced collections snippet.
docs/query-agent/_includes/code/search_mode.py	Keeps an unreleased-API snippet extractable but non-executed in CI.
docs/query-agent/guides/search_mode.md	Documents Python availability caveat for filtering.
_includes/code/llms-txt/python/local_setup.py	Pre-cleans Movie collection to prevent “already exists” failures.
_includes/code/java-v6/src/test/java/ModelProvidersTest.java	Disables DigitalOcean tests requiring a missing CI secret.
_includes/code/csharp/ModelProvidersTest.cs	Adds missing using and skips DigitalOcean tests requiring a missing CI secret.
_includes/code/csharp/ManageCollectionsTest.cs	Skips replication-related tests that are CI-infra flaky.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

.github/workflows/docs_tests.yml:463

• This step is now pinning to a released tag (6.2.0), but the log messages (and step name) still say “SNAPSHOT”, which is misleading when diagnosing CI runs. Update the wording to match the new behavior.

          JAVA_BRANCH="${{ inputs.java_client_branch || '6.2.0' }}"
          echo "📦 Building Java client SNAPSHOT from branch: $JAVA_BRANCH"
          git clone --depth 1 -b "$JAVA_BRANCH" https://github.com/weaviate/java-client.git /tmp/java-client
          cd /tmp/java-client
          mvn install -DskipTests -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -q

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