To verify that your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environment is correctly configured to use Generative AI services, it is essential to test API access, model permissions, and request formatting. The Python snippet below provides a minimal working example that sends a prompt to the cohere.command-text-v14 model using Oracle’s generateText endpoint. This test isolates the most common failure points—such as invalid compartment access, unsupported models, or malformed requests—and allows you to confirm that your OCI SDK and credentials are functioning correctly. If the script returns a generated response, you can integrate…