From 99636a7c6067c87b1e1da535c516ec4cea7fee85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bharadwaj Pendyala <bharadwajpendyala@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:15:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chore(vertex_ai): restore the mutable-ok reason on the
 tuple-items rewrite

---
 litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
index 094ec348ec4..6091a59412d 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/common_utils.py
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ def _normalize_tuple_items(schema: dict[str, Any], depth: int = 0) -> None:
     tuple_items: Final = schema.get("items", None)
     if isinstance(tuple_items, list):
         if tuple_items:
-            schema["items"] = {"anyOf": tuple_items}
+            schema["items"] = {"anyOf": tuple_items}  # mutable-ok: the walkers below rewrite this subtree in place
         else:
             schema.pop("items")