vertex-deploy

vertex-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for putting open models or your own trained model files online through Google Cloud's Vertex AI Model Garden. Vertex AI is Google's cloud service for running machine-learning models, and an endpoint is the network address applications use to call one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find deployable models, check their deployment requirements, deploy them to Vertex AI endpoints, and later remove those deployments.
Why use it?
It turns model deployment into a guided process with checks for available models, supported hardware, authentication, and cleanup. This helps avoid guessing which models and machine types can be deployed.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 $0.00000 $0.02591
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00259

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1d84acc89d89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vertex-deploy scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

endpoint's dedicated DNS name and send a `curl` request.
skills/vertex-deploy/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: Vertex AI Model Garden Deploy description: Deploy open models or custom weights to Vertex AI endpoints.

Vertex AI Model Garden Deploy Skill

This skill provides instructions for deploying Open Models from Vertex AI Model Garden to endpoints, and subsequently undeploying them to clean up resources.

1. Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure you have the correct project and region set. The commands below use placeholder variables PROJECT_ID and LOCATION_ID.

Ensure you are authenticated:

gcloud auth login
gcloud auth application-default login
gcloud config set project $PROJECT_ID`

2. Discovering Deployable Models

You can list models available in Model Garden and check if they can be self-deployed.

gcloud ai model-garden models list

To see what machine types and accelerators are supported for a specific model (e.g., google/gemma3@gemma-3-27b-it):

gcloud ai model-garden models list-deployment-config \
    --model="google/gemma3@gemma-3-27b-it"

[!NOTE] Some models, especially Hugging Face models, might require a Hugging Face Access Token for deployment.

[!TIP] Model Recommendation Instructions: If a user asks to deploy a model but does not specify which one, you should recommend a model based on their use case (e.g., Llama 3.3 70B for general purpose or Gemma 3 for lightweight tasks). * You MUST ensure you are recommending the latest version or popular version of the suggested model family. * You MUST verify the model is currently deployable using gcloud ai model-garden models list before suggesting it to the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 302 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1d84acc89d89

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vertex-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples (780 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,591 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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