@@ -318,6 +318,10 @@ def normalize_index_definition(index_info: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
     return _normalize_index_info_mapping(index_info.get("index_definition"))
 
 
+# FT.INFO field modifiers that appear in "flags" without a value.
+_VECTOR_VALUELESS_FLAGS = {"INDEXMISSING", "INDEXEMPTY", "SORTABLE", "NOINDEX", "UNF"}
+
+
 def normalize_index_fields(index_info: dict[str, Any]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
     """Return FT.INFO field entries in mapping form."""
     return [
@@ -373,6 +377,18 @@ def parse_vector_attrs(attrs):
                 for key, value in attrs.items()
                 if key not in {"identifier", "attribute", "type", "flags"}
             }
+            # redis-py 8 on RESP2 with legacy_responses=False puts the vector
+            # params in "flags" as key/value pairs, possibly followed by
+            # valueless modifiers: ["algorithm", "FLAT", "dim", 4, "INDEXMISSING"]
+            flags = attrs.get("flags") or []
+            i = 0
+            while i < len(flags):
+                key = str(flags[i])
+                if key.upper() in _VECTOR_VALUELESS_FLAGS or i + 1 >= len(flags):
+                    i += 1
+                    continue
+                vector_attrs.setdefault(key.lower(), flags[i + 1])
+                i += 2
         else:
             # Check if we have any attributes beyond the type declaration
             if len(attrs) <= 6:
@@ -604,6 +620,12 @@ def parse_attrs(attrs, field_type=None):
             if attrs is None:
                 # Vector field attributes cannot be parsed on this Redis version
                 # Skip this field - it cannot be properly reconstructed
+                logger.warning(
+                    "Skipping vector field %r of index %r: could not parse its "
+                    "attributes from FT.INFO",
+                    name,
+                    index_name,
+                )
                 continue
             field["attrs"] = attrs
         else:
 
@@ -241,3 +241,67 @@ def test_convert_index_info_default_stopwords():
 
     assert result["index"]["name"] == "test_default_stopwords"
     assert "stopwords" not in result["index"]  # Should not be present
+
+
+def test_convert_index_info_resp2_unified_vector_flags():
+    """Vector params packed into ``flags`` (redis-py 8, RESP2, legacy_responses=False)."""
+    index_info = {
+        "index_name": "test_index",
+        "index_definition": {"key_type": "HASH", "prefixes": ["doc"]},
+        "attributes": [
+            {
+                "identifier": "emb",
+                "attribute": "emb",
+                "type": "VECTOR",
+                "flags": [
+                    "algorithm",
+                    "HNSW",
+                    "data_type",
+                    "FLOAT32",
+                    "dim",
+                    8,
+                    "distance_metric",
+                    "L2",
+                    "M",
+                    24,
+                    "ef_construction",
+                    300,
+                    "INDEXMISSING",
+                ],
+            }
+        ],
+    }
+
+    result = convert_index_info_to_schema(index_info)
+
+    assert result["fields"] == [
+        {
+            "name": "emb",
+            "type": "vector",
+            "attrs": {
+                "dims": 8,
+                "distance_metric": "l2",
+                "algorithm": "hnsw",
+                "datatype": "float32",
+                "m": 24,
+                "ef_construction": 300,
+            },
+        }
+    ]
+
+
+def test_convert_index_info_warns_on_unparseable_vector_field(caplog):
+    """A vector field without params is skipped with a warning, not silently."""
+    index_info = {
+        "index_name": "test_index",
+        "index_definition": {"key_type": "HASH", "prefixes": ["doc"]},
+        "attributes": [
+            {"identifier": "emb", "attribute": "emb", "type": "VECTOR", "flags": []}
+        ],
+    }
+
+    with caplog.at_level("WARNING"):
+        result = convert_index_info_to_schema(index_info)
+
+    assert result["fields"] == []
+    assert "'emb'" in caplog.text and "'test_index'" in caplog.text