Claude Code v2.1.98: Interactive Vertex AI Setup Wizard Eliminates Manual Google Cloud Configuration

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Claude Code v2.1.98 adds an interactive setup wizard for Google Vertex AI accessible from the login screen under '3rd-party platform'. The wizard guides through GCP authentication, project selection, region configuration, credential verification, and model pinning in a single flow. For enterprise teams using Vertex AI instead of direct Anthropic API, this replaces the previous manual env-var configuration process that was error-prone and undocumented.