The Vertex AI provider (added same-day, commit c73e74386) was never added to
either of the two provider registries that agent/auxiliary_client.py and the
MoA slot-resolution chain depend on, breaking Vertex outside the main
conversation loop:
1. hermes_cli/auth.py::PROVIDER_REGISTRY had no "vertex" entry. The
plugin-auto-extend loop that normally fills gaps explicitly skips
non-api_key auth types (`if _pp.auth_type != "api_key": continue`), and
Vertex was never hand-declared like "bedrock" is. Because
resolve_provider_client() in agent/auxiliary_client.py gates everything
on `pconfig = PROVIDER_REGISTRY.get(provider)` and returns (None, None)
immediately when pconfig is None, its `elif pconfig.auth_type == "vertex"`
branch was permanently dead code — every auxiliary Vertex call (vision,
title generation, reflection, context compression, MoA reference/
aggregator slots) failed outright, not just a MoA-specific edge case.
2. hermes_cli/providers.py::HERMES_OVERLAYS also had no "vertex" entry, so
hermes_cli.providers.get_provider("vertex") returned None. This backs
_preserve_provider_with_base_url() in agent/auxiliary_client.py, which a
MoA slot's resolved (base_url, api_key) pair needs to keep its "vertex"
identity instead of silently collapsing to "custom" — losing the
identity _refresh_provider_credentials() needs to re-mint an expired
OAuth2 token (~1h lifetime) on a 401, and permanently breaking every
subsequent call in that MoA preset for the rest of the session.
Fix mirrors the existing "bedrock"/aws_sdk entries in both registries
exactly, plus adds a "vertex" branch to _refresh_provider_credentials() (it
had branches for openai-codex/nous/anthropic/xai-oauth but not vertex,
so a 401 fell through to `return False` without evicting the stale cached
client).
- hermes_cli/auth.py: hand-declared vertex ProviderConfig(auth_type="vertex")
in PROVIDER_REGISTRY, matching bedrock's shape.
- hermes_cli/providers.py: vertex HermesOverlay(auth_type="vertex") in
HERMES_OVERLAYS + "Google Vertex AI" label override.
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: vertex branch in _refresh_provider_credentials
that re-mints the token via get_vertex_config() and evicts the stale
cached client.
- 8 new regression tests across tests/hermes_cli/test_vertex_provider.py and
tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py: registry membership, end-to-end
resolve_provider_client("vertex", ...) building a working client (proving
the previously-dead branch is now reachable), and the 401-refresh/cache-
eviction path.
Adds Vertex AI as a first-class provider for Gemini models via Vertex's
OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Vertex authenticates with short-lived OAuth2
access tokens (service-account JSON or ADC), not a static API key — the
missing piece behind the recurring requests (#13484, #12639, #56259).
- agent/vertex_adapter.py: OAuth2 token minting + refresh-on-expiry
(5-min margin), ADC->service-account fallback, global vs regional
endpoint URLs. Config precedence: env var > config.yaml > default.
- plugins/model-providers/vertex/: provider profile (auth_type=vertex),
reuses Gemini's extra_body.google.thinking_config translation.
- runtime_provider: vertex short-circuit BEFORE the credential pool so a
credentials-file path is never mistaken for a static API key; mints a
fresh token + computes base_url per resolve.
- run_agent + conversation_loop: _try_refresh_vertex_client_credentials()
re-mints the token and rebuilds the client on a mid-session 401, so a
long-lived gateway agent survives token expiry (~1h).
- auxiliary_client: vertex auth_type branch for side-LLM tasks.
- config.yaml: vertex.project_id / vertex.region (non-secret, bridged to
env); credential path stays in .env (VERTEX_CREDENTIALS_PATH).
- setup wizard + model picker: dedicated _model_flow_vertex; curated
google/gemini-* model list; --provider choices.
- pricing/metadata: Vertex prices off the gemini docs snapshot; endpoint
host auto-maps to the vertex provider (no probe spam).
- lazy_deps + pyproject [vertex] extra: google-auth, opt-in only.
- docs: guides/google-vertex.md + providers page; tests for adapter +
runtime resolution.
Salvages and modernizes #8427 by @slawt onto current main: rewired from
the legacy PROVIDER_REGISTRY path to the provider-profile architecture,
moved non-secret config out of .env into config.yaml, and added the
per-turn 401 token-refresh the original lacked.
