GEMINI CLI NOT RECONGIZING GEMINI CODE ASSIST SUBSCRIPTION - RATE LIMITS AND REVERTS BACK TO FLASH 2.5

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What happened?

Gemini CLI is not recongizing my Google Workspace account to have a gemini code assist standard subscription.

I have enabled the Google Cloud API, I have added the IAM user permissions, I have assigned the licenses, and deleted the .gemini cache. Even though I signed in with my workspace account using /auth, the .gemini/settings.json still says "selectedAuthType": "oauth-personal"

I verified that I can access the Gemini assist for VS Code, but the CLI fails to recognize my subscription and still gives me the following errors:

ℹ ⚡ Slow response times detected. Automatically switching from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash for faster responses for the remainder of this session. ⚡ To avoid this you can either upgrade to Standard tier. See: https://goo.gle/set-up-gemini-code-assist ⚡ Or you can utilize a Gemini API Key. See: https://goo.gle/gemini-cli-docs-auth#gemini-api-key ⚡ You can switch authentication methods by typing /auth

The automatic switching to Gemini 2.5 Flash introduced bugs into my code and did not follow the previous plan I had when executing with Gemini 2.5 Pro.

What did you expect to happen?

When I sign in with /auth using my account after enabling the Code Assist, I expect:

  1. A confirmation that my code assist subscription is recognized
  2. An error message if not recognized or not enable
  3. A command /status that allows me to confirm and view the subscription status

Client information

Details 
CLI Version        0.1.7                                 
Git Commit         55cc809                               
Model              gemini-2.5-flash                      
Sandbox            no sandbox                            
OS                 darwin                                
Auth Method        OAuth                                 
GCP Project        state-space-464514

Platform = macos

Login information

I am logged in via Google Workspace using /auth command from the CLI

When I login, I get the following message:

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The authentication with Gemini Code Assist, Cloud Code with Gemini Code Assist, or the Gemini CLI was successful.

To learn more about Gemini Code Assist capabilities, see the [Gemini Code Assist documentation](https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/overview).

To learn more about Gemini CLI, see the [Gemini CLI documentation](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli).

You can close this window and return to your IDE or terminal.```

### Anything else we need to know?

I also set the project ID env 

GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT="state-space-464514”