vertex-ai

vertex-ai is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples. It costs 55 tokens per session (476 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A routing guide for Google Cloud Vertex AI, which supports model deployment, text generation, chat, embeddings, and model tuning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose the right path for deploying models, running inference, using the Gemini SDK, or fine-tuning models.
Why use it?
It directs each Vertex AI request to the relevant workflow instead of applying unrelated instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/googlecloudplatform/vertex-ai-samples/vertex-ai
Any agent
npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples --skill vertex-ai
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00055 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00048

Measured 5d ago against content hash 170bee93ca06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vertex-ai scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/vertex-ai/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Vertex AI Skills (Primary Router)

Overview

This skill acts as the primary router for all Vertex AI related tasks. Google Cloud Vertex AI provides capabilities for deploying open models, running inference against Generative AI models (like Gemini and open models), and fine-tuning models.

Your first step is to determine the user's main objective and then read the appropriate sub-skill.

Workflow Decision Tree

  1. Objective Category: What does the user want to do with Vertex AI?

    • Use Gemini SDK (Gen AI SDK): If the user explicitly asks about using the Gemini API on Vertex AI with the Gen AI SDK, or asks for features like Live API, multimedia generation, caching, or batch prediction, stop reading this file and IMMEDIATELY read the skill instructions located at ../genai-sdk/SKILL.md.

    • Deploy Models: If the user wants to deploy an Open Model from Model Garden or deploy custom weights to create a Vertex AI Endpoint, stop reading this file and IMMEDIATELY read the skill instructions located at ../vertex-deploy/SKILL.md.

    • Run Inference (Text Generation, Chat, Embeddings): If the user wants to connect to Vertex AI to generate text, chat, or get embeddings using models like Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, etc., stop reading this file and IMMEDIATELY read the skill instructions located at ../vertex-inference/SKILL.md.

    • Model Tuning / Fine-Tuning: If the user wants to fine-tune an Open Model or a Gemini Model, stop reading this file and IMMEDIATELY read the skill instructions located at ../vertex-tuning/SKILL.md.

    • Unknown / Not Listed: If the objective is not clearly one of the above, STOP. Ask the user to clarify whether they are looking to deploy a model, run inference, or tune a model on Vertex AI.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 27 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 170bee93ca06

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vertex-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples (784 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 476 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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