#vertex-ai clear

Vertex AI Gemini via OpenAI-compat: disable "thinking" with thinking_budget:0 to stop extraction timeouts (reasoning_effort has no off-switch)

GCP startup (GFS) credits cover first-party Vertex AI (Gemini + self-hosted open models) but NOT third-party partner-MaaS (Claude/Llama/Mistral)

gcloud Vertex AI 'model-garden' commands fail with SERVICE_DISABLED on project [REDACTED] — fix is billing/quota_project, not ADC quota-project