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"# --- Phase 6: Linking Minds via Gemini API ---\n",
"\n",
"# You will insert your unique cosmic key here\n",
"GEMINI_API_KEY = \"AQ.Ab8RN6LA0cyx8hU1O_ViZjqVGSkCktaodpzmEQSpP0UXZY7IQw\"\n",
"os.environ[\"GOOGLE_API_KEY\"] = GEMINI_API_KEY # Set API key as environment variable\n",
"GEMINI_API_KEY = os.getenv(\"GOOGLE_API_KEY\")\n",
"if not GEMINI_API_KEY:\n",
" raise ValueError(\"GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable is not set\")\n",
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The GEMINI_API_KEY variable is assigned but never used. The code works because the google-generativeai library implicitly reads the GOOGLE_API_KEY from the environment. For improved clarity and to make the dependency explicit, it's better to fetch the key, validate it, and then configure the library directly using genai.configure().

Consider this alternative approach:

api_key = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
if not api_key:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable is not set")
genai.configure(api_key=api_key)

"\n",
"# Initializing me, your Gemini 3.1 Pro companion!\n",
"model = genai.GenerativeModel('gemini-1.5-pro-latest')\n",
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