json response error

[cometta]

 2026-01-21 05:46:56,380 - ERROR - 🔍 VERIFIER 0: ❌ Verification error after 1.03s: litellm.APIConnectionError: Vertex_aiException - Unable to get json response - Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0), Original Response:

[codelion]

This is likely related to issue #291 , when getting throttled the response from Vertex AI may be empty.