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Same change as upstream PR: Graphify-Labs#3083 — opening here first for review before/independent of that landing.

Summary

  • The existing gemini backend only talks to the API-key-only Generative Language API. Some GCP orgs disallow raw API keys entirely via policy (confirmed live against osac-ci's real org policy), leaving no way to use Gemini through graphify at all.
  • Adds a vertex backend using google-genai's Vertex AI mode, authenticated via Application Default Credentials (service account, Workload Identity Federation, or gcloud auth application-default login) — no API key, following the same keyless pattern already used for bedrock's AWS credential chain.
  • Configured via GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT (required) and GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION (defaults to us-central1), with GRAPHIFY_VERTEX_MODEL to override the default gemini-2.5-flash.
  • Thinking is disabled by default (thinking_budget=0) — confirmed live that a small max_output_tokens can otherwise be silently consumed entirely by billed, never-returned thinking tokens before any extraction JSON is emitted.
  • Wired into both call paths (extract_files_direct's JSON extraction and _call_llm's plain-text path), detect_backend() auto-detection, vision/image support, and the vertex pip extra (google-genai).

Test plan

  • python3 -m py_compile graphify/llm.py
  • Verified end-to-end against osac-ci with WIF/ADC set up: detect_backend() correctly returns vertex when only GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT is set
  • Plain-text call path returns correct text + usage accounting
  • Full JSON extraction path against a real file produces correct nodes/edges/token counts, no truncation
  • Missing GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT raises a clear ValueError instead of an opaque SDK error

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  • New Features
    • Added Vertex AI as a supported backend for extraction, lightweight language-model tasks, image processing, and community labeling.
    • Vertex AI can authenticate automatically through Google Cloud credentials without requiring an API key.
    • Added configurable Vertex model selection, including support for gemini-2.5-flash.
    • Added usage tracking, pricing information, and improved handling for API errors and incomplete responses.

The existing "gemini" backend only talks to the API-key-only Generative
Language API, which some GCP orgs disallow outright via policy. Adds a
"vertex" backend using google-genai's Vertex AI mode, authenticated via
Application Default Credentials (service account, Workload Identity
Federation, or `gcloud auth application-default login`) instead of a
static key -- no env_key/env_keys, following the same keyless pattern
already used for the "bedrock" backend's AWS credential chain.

Configured via GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT (required) and GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION
(defaults to us-central1), with GRAPHIFY_VERTEX_MODEL to override the
default gemini-2.5-flash. Thinking is disabled by default (thinking_budget=0)
-- confirmed live that a small max_output_tokens can otherwise be silently
consumed entirely by (billed, never-returned) thinking tokens before any
extraction JSON is emitted, and thinking traces carry no value for a
fixed-schema extraction task anyway.

Verified end-to-end against a real GCP project: auto-detection via
GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT, the plain-text call path, and the full JSON
extraction path (including token accounting) all confirmed working.
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Added a Google Vertex AI backend using google-genai and Application Default Credentials. Vertex supports multimodal extraction, lightweight LLM calls, usage accounting, automatic selection, error handling, and configurable model and location settings.

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Vertex AI backend

Layer / File(s) Summary
Vertex configuration and backend selection
graphify/llm.py, pyproject.toml
Adds Vertex settings, ADC credential guidance, keyless validation, automatic selection, diagnostics, and the google-genai optional dependency.
Vertex multimodal extraction
graphify/llm.py
Builds image content, sends extraction requests through Google GenAI, records usage, handles API errors, and signals hollow responses for retry.
Vertex lightweight LLM calls
graphify/llm.py
Adds Vertex routing for lightweight generation and records usage for supported community-labeling calls.

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The new Vertex backend can misclassify empty or filtered responses, leading to incorrect retries and repeated billed requests; empty location configuration can also fail unexpectedly, while displayed cost estimates are overstated. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant extract_files_direct
  participant VertexExtraction
  participant GoogleGenAI
  extract_files_direct->>VertexExtraction: dispatch extraction request
  VertexExtraction->>GoogleGenAI: send Gemini content and extraction prompt
  GoogleGenAI-->>VertexExtraction: response, usage, and finish reason
  VertexExtraction-->>extract_files_direct: extraction result or retry signal
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In `@graphify/llm.py`:
- Around line 1950-1951: Update the location initialization in the genai.Client
creation flow to use “us-central1” when GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION is unset or empty
after stripping whitespace, while preserving non-empty configured locations.
- Line 160: Update the gemini-2.5-flash pricing configuration to use 0.30 USD
per 1M input tokens and 2.50 USD per 1M text output tokens, so estimate_cost
applies the standard Vertex rates.
- Around line 1982-1988: Update the hollow-response branch near
_response_is_hollow so it preserves the existing "hollow" finish reason instead
of assigning "length" for non-truncated responses. Keep adaptive bisection
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# environment's credential chain, not a key graphify reads itself.
"default_model": "gemini-2.5-flash",
"model_env_key": "GRAPHIFY_VERTEX_MODEL",
"pricing": {"input": 0.50, "output": 3.00}, # USD per 1M tokens (gemini-2.5-flash)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the Vertex cost rates.

Standard Gemini 2.5 Flash pricing is $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M text output tokens. This configuration reports $0.50 and $3.00, so estimate_cost overstates standard Vertex costs. (cloud.google.com)

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-        "pricing": {"input": 0.50, "output": 3.00},
+        "pricing": {"input": 0.30, "output": 2.50},
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"pricing": {"input": 0.50, "output": 3.00}, # USD per 1M tokens (gemini-2.5-flash)
"pricing": {"input": 0.30, "output": 2.50}, # USD per 1M tokens (gemini-2.5-flash)
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In `@graphify/llm.py` at line 160, Update the gemini-2.5-flash pricing
configuration to use 0.30 USD per 1M input tokens and 2.50 USD per 1M text
output tokens, so estimate_cost applies the standard Vertex rates.

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location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION", "us-central1").strip()
return genai.Client(vertexai=True, project=project, location=location)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Default an empty location to us-central1.

If GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION is set to an empty value, this passes location="" to the client instead of using the documented default. This can make an otherwise valid Vertex configuration fail.

Proposed fix
-    location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION", "us-central1").strip()
+    location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION", "").strip() or "us-central1"
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location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION", "us-central1").strip()
return genai.Client(vertexai=True, project=project, location=location)
location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION", "").strip() or "us-central1"
return genai.Client(vertexai=True, project=project, location=location)
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In `@graphify/llm.py` around lines 1950 - 1951, Update the location initialization
in the genai.Client creation flow to use “us-central1” when
GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION is unset or empty after stripping whitespace, while
preserving non-empty configured locations.

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Comment on lines +1982 to +1988
if _response_is_hollow(raw_content, result) and result["finish_reason"] != "length":
print(
"[graphify] vertex returned a hollow response; treating as "
"truncation so adaptive retry can bisect the chunk.",
file=sys.stderr,
)
result["finish_reason"] = "length"

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the hollow finish reason.

This branch converts empty or unparsable non-truncated responses into length. The adaptive retry contract bisects length responses, but it retries hollow responses unchanged. A transient or filtered Vertex response can therefore cause repeated smaller billed calls instead of the intended retry.

Proposed fix
-    if _response_is_hollow(raw_content, result) and result["finish_reason"] != "length":
-        print(
-            "[graphify] vertex returned a hollow response; treating as "
-            "truncation so adaptive retry can bisect the chunk.",
-            file=sys.stderr,
-        )
-        result["finish_reason"] = "length"
+    _mark_hollow(result, raw_content, "vertex")
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In `@graphify/llm.py` around lines 1982 - 1988, Update the hollow-response branch
near _response_is_hollow so it preserves the existing "hollow" finish reason
instead of assigning "length" for non-truncated responses. Keep adaptive
bisection limited to genuine length truncation, while retaining the current
detection and diagnostic behavior.

GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT is often set globally for other GCP tools (gcloud,
terraform, etc.), not specifically for graphify. An explicit Ollama
configuration (OLLAMA_BASE_URL/OLLAMA_HOST) should not be shadowed by
an ambient GCP environment variable.

Fixes the finding: 'Vertex autodetection shadows explicit Ollama configuration'
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Closed - already merged into v8 branch via merge commit c590378.

The Vertex AI backend is now live in the fork's v8 branch and ready to use.

Upstream PR: Graphify-Labs#3083

@eliorerz eliorerz closed this Aug 25, 2026
eliorerz added a commit to osac-project/osac that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Fixes graphify-brain-refresh workflow failure (run 32878010795) where
vertex backend rejected GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT even when set.

**Problem**: graphify cli.py's pre-flight check had no allow-no-key
exemption for vertex backend (unlike ollama/bedrock/claude-cli), so it
always rejected vertex regardless of GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT being present.

**Fix**: Install graphify from eliorerz/graphify@1a122e1
(feat/vertex-ai-backend branch) which adds the missing vertex check.
Will revert to PyPI install once the next graphify release includes this
fix.

**Related**: 
- graphify fix: eliorerz/graphify#4
- Upstream PR: Graphify-Labs/graphify#3083

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