Empty response.text from Gemini 2.5 Pro, despite no safety and max_tokens issues

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Gemini 2.5 Pro with empty response.text

Running Gemini 2.5 Pro with grounded search sometimes returns empty response.text with finish_reason of STOP and no other reason. When I inspect the response dict it shows evidence of the search with some web meta information, but nothing else. Any ideas on what is going on? Here is my code: def get_response(seed, model, system_prompt, user_prompt): api_key = os.environ.get('GEMINI_API_KEY') google_search_tool = Tool( google_search=GoogleSearch() ) response = None …

this issue is happening for months and it does not seem the devs are something about it