Google's TTS and Imagen tools advertised service-account auth
(GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS) but only ever authenticated with an API
key string, so users with a service-account JSON could not use either tool.
google_tts.get_status() also over-reported availability when the JSON was
set, then failed at execute() — a silent-availability bug.
Separately, both hand-rolled _load_dotenv parsers kept inline comments as
values, so after `cp .env.example .env` every keyed tool falsely reported
"available" with no real credentials.
Changes:
- Add tools/google_credentials.py: lazy google-auth Bearer-token helper.
- google_tts: authenticate via Cloud TTS Bearer token when only a service
account is configured; make get_status() honest.
- google_imagen: route service-account auth to Vertex AI
({location}-aiplatform.googleapis.com) with project/location resolution,
alongside the existing AI Studio API-key path.
- Fix both _load_dotenv parsers to strip inline comments (quote-aware).
- Add google-auth to requirements; document the new env vars in .env.example.
- .gitignore: never commit GCP service-account key files.
Verified locally with a real service account: TTS produced a valid MP3 and
Imagen produced a valid 1408x768 PNG via Vertex AI. Existing test suite
passes (2 unrelated pre-existing failures only).
Closes#131
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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