[Critical] AI Pro Individual locked out by undeletable Shadow Project (quick-aileron-xxxx) - Defaults to Entrepise Move in Inividual Pro License

[Akryllax]

Environment:
(Hint: "Report Extension Issue on Github" command will fill these out for you.)
Multiple environments tried:

• Windows 11
• Fedora Linux (latest Bazzite)
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.10

Version information

Cloud Code Extension version: Any from last year. Tried exclicitly:

• 2.68.0
• 2.51.0
• 2.48.0
• 2.23.0

VSCode version: 1.108.2

OS: Windows 11, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu (not host related)

Cloud SDK: N/A

Skaffold: N/A

Kubectl: N/A

Description: Paid Gemini AI Pro (Individual) subscriber. I am completely unable to use the extension because the authentication logic incorrectly identifies my personal account as an Enterprise/Cloud User.

There is no flow to select my personal license, or confirm that I am (not) an Enterprise User. I am locked into Entreprise Mode in this Extension on a Personal Account, with no way to enforce my (Paid) license to the Individual Pro,

The extension detects a "Shadow Project" (ID: quick-aileron-26f3p) on my Google account—likely a remnant of a past Cloud Shell or Firebase trial—and forces the Enterprise authentication flow.

1. It auto-populates geminicodeassist.project entry in .vscode/settngs.json with this shadow project ID. Refuses to allow to delete it. Each time it is manually deleted, it restarts the Extension fully and re-adds it. It is consistently always the same ID.

• If I manually try to remove the project in the settings.json, it autopopulates. Video of the behavior: https://youtu.be/UUJ4oWZzInQ

3. It doesn't matter the environment, it will do this across any OS, no matte how many time you manually delete extension caches, clear settings, sign in/out.
4. Clicking on Select Project... in the bottom right menu will just show an empty list (I am not Enterprise and I do NOT use Google Cloud for anything).
5. If I Create a project..., it will create a Google Cloud empty project, and allow me to use it's "Free Tier" eligibility plan, but expect additional payment for using "Entreprise" AI. I already paid for Individual AI Pro, and expect to use my local projects, not cloud.
6. There is not option ANYWHERE in the extension for forcing the switch to my "Individual AI Pro" license. The moment I sign in, it auto-locks into Enterprise Mode, while my Google Account is a Personal Account.
7. Support deadlock: I have already contacted Google One Support. They say to contact Google Cloud support. I am not a Google Cloud user, and I have nothing with them, but Google Cloud REQUIRES payment for any contact with them. "Billing Support" doesn't work either, I do not have a Billing Account, this is a Personal Account with no Google Cloud usage.
8. I have tried: - Resetting extension

• "Enable API"
• Setting other project through UI
• Manually messing with files
• Deleting everything
• Switching to completely different machines, even brand new VM images.
• Going to Google Account Permissions and revoking "Google Cloud" (never was there), "Cloud Code" (never was there) and "Gemini Code Assist & CLI" entirely.
• Completely deleted ~/.config/Code/User/globalStorage/googlecloud.geminicodeassist

Repro step:

• Subscribe to Gemini Advanced / AI Pro.
• Download Gemini Code Assist
• Click Sign in
• The browser authentication flow requests cloud-platform scopes immediately.

• Sign in successful through web using my personal Google Account that has a historical "Shadow Project" (e.g., from using Cloud Shell once in the past) but NO active Google Cloud Billing account or active projects.

• Extension goes to ready state, but already shows error message with the Magically Appearing "ghost project" (it's always same ID):

• If no filesystem access is required in the promp-t, it completes:

• If I query ANY promt that requires filesystem, the chat interface hangs on "Working..." for 10 minutes (timeout loop) because it is attempting Remote RAG on a project I cannot access, ignoring Local RAG entirely.
• Eventually, it crashes with no error message:

• It also defaults to "Max Usage" when there was no usage since subscription! Account has NOT used any Gemini Pro features at the point of this screenshot:

Attaching logfiles of behavior during screenshots/recording of this error:

gemini_code_assits_agent.log

gemini_code_assits_extension.log

[generalus89]

Same problem for me, and even setting it to an existing project does not fix the agent mode. Chat-Mode is working fine though no matter which project ID is set.

Agent mode requests results in errors in the Gemini Code Assist Output like:
I0210 22:54:37.935464 4280 conn_opt.go:99] jsonrpc2: <-- error #899: conversation/agent/chat: {"code":-32603,"message":"getting conversation response: A2A SendMessageStreaming call failed: failed to send request: Post \"\": unsupported protocol scheme \"\"","data":null} Error getting chat response (code: -32603): getting conversation response: A2A SendMessageStreaming call failed: failed to send request: Post "": unsupported protocol scheme ""

Version information

Gemini Code Assist: 2.70.0

VSCode version: 1.109.0

OS: Windows 11 Pro 25H2

[adk18]

by the way not helpfull but a workaround is to use old stable versions like 2.56, you wont get 3.0 flash but at least it will work