Fosowl/agenticSeek · error · Exception

Google response is empty.

Error message

Google response is empty.

What it means

google_fn() checks that the OpenAI-compatible client returned a non-null response from chat.completions.create and raises this error when the response is None. It guards against dereferencing response.choices[0].message.content on an empty reply. The raise is immediately re-wrapped by the outer except as 'GOOGLE API error: Google response is empty.'

Source

Thrown at sources/llm_provider.py:298

        except Exception as e:
            raise Exception(f"Anthropic API error: {str(e)}") from e

    def google_fn(self, history, verbose=False):
        """
        Use google gemini to generate text.
        """
        base_url = self.server_ip
        if self.is_local:
            raise Exception("Google Gemini is not available for local use. Change config.ini")

        client = OpenAI(api_key=self.api_key, base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/")
        try:
            response = client.chat.completions.create(
                model=self.model,
                messages=history,
            )
            if response is None:
                raise Exception("Google response is empty.")
            thought = response.choices[0].message.content
            if verbose:
                print(thought)
            return thought
        except Exception as e:
            raise Exception(f"GOOGLE API error: {str(e)}") from e

    def together_fn(self, history, verbose=False):
        """
        Use together AI for completion
        """
        from together import Together
        client = Together(api_key=self.api_key)
        if self.is_local:
            raise Exception("Together AI is not available for local use. Change config.ini")

        try:
            response = client.chat.completions.create(

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Solutions

1. Check network connectivity/proxy settings toward generativelanguage.googleapis.com
2. Verify the model name in config.ini is a valid Gemini model (e.g. gemini-1.5-pro)
3. Upgrade the openai SDK and ensure the Google OpenAI-compatible base URL is current
4. Retry the request; if persistent, add logging of the raw HTTP response

Example fix

// before
response = client.chat.completions.create(model=self.model, messages=history)
thought = response.choices[0].message.content
// after
response = client.chat.completions.create(model=self.model, messages=history)
if not response or not response.choices:
    raise Exception("Google response is empty or malformed.")
thought = response.choices[0].message.content or ""

cfg = load_config()
if not cfg.get("google", {}).get("model"):
    raise ValueError("google model missing in config.ini")
if not reachable("https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com"):
    raise ConnectionError("cannot reach Google API")

def is_valid_completion(response) -> bool:
    return (
        response is not None
        and getattr(response, "choices", None)
        and response.choices[0].message is not None
        and response.choices[0].message.content is not None
    )

try:
    thought = provider.google_fn(history)
except Exception as e:
    if "response is empty" in str(e):
        thought = retry_with_backoff(lambda: provider.google_fn(history))
    else:
        raise

When it happens

Trigger: client.chat.completions.create(...) against generativelanguage.googleapis.com returns None instead of a ChatCompletion object — e.g. silent transport failure or SDK returning null on an empty response.

Common situations: Network/proxy issues causing empty replies, Google API returning an empty body (quota/rate-limit edge cases), incorrect model name in config.ini leading to a degenerate response, or outdated OpenAI SDK version against Google's OpenAI-compat endpoint.

Related errors

• Together AI response is empty.
• OpenAI response is empty.
• Anthropic response is empty.
• Google Gemini is not available for local use. Change config.
• GOOGLE API error: {str(e)}

AI-assisted analysis of Fosowl/agenticSeek@ae57a23577 (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/66cce54c66f53ad8. Report an issue: GitHub.