January 23, 2026 - January 30, 2026
Top Highlights
- AGENTS.md outperforms skills in agent evals - Vercel’s evaluation testing on Next.js 16 APIs revealed that documentation-based approaches (AGENTS.md) unexpectedly outperform traditional skills for teaching coding agents framework-specific knowledge.
- Live model performance metrics accessible via AI Gateway - AI Gateway now displays real-time throughput and latency metrics across hundreds of models, enabling developers to make data-driven decisions when selecting AI models for their applications.
- Stripe built a game-changing app in a single flight with v0 - What traditionally required months of coordination across multiple teams was accomplished by one Stripe developer during a single flight, demonstrating v0’s potential to dramatically accelerate product development cycles.
- Turborepo 2.8 was released - The latest version includes Git worktree support, an Agent Skill, AI-enabled documentation, and more
Community Projects
- Compressa: A Privacy First File Compression Tool
- Agency Landing Page
- Billow // Simple GST Sales Invoicing for Indian B2B Businesses
- pastecn v0.1.1 - Announcing Pastecn API
- registry.directory v0.5.1
Don’t forget to visit the Showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week’s leaderboard champions
Resources
- Agent skills explained: An FAQ
- AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
- How Sensay went from zero to product in six weeks
- How Stripe built a game-changing app in a single flight with v0
Events
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More Updates
- Faster deploys with improved function caching
- Configure build machine settings across all projects
- Vercel now supports customizing platform error pages
- Use AI Gateway with Clawdbot
- Summary of CVE-2026-23864
- Summaries of CVE-2025-59471 and CVE-2025-59472
- Skills v1.1.1: Interactive discovery, open source release, and agent support
- Live model performance metrics accessible via AI Gateway
- Claude Code Max via AI Gateway, available now for Claude Code
- Qwen 3 Max Thinking now available on AI Gateway
- Kimi K2.5 is live on AI Gateway
- Trinity Large Preview is on AI Gateway
- Introducing the vercel api CLI command
- Tag-based cache invalidation now available for all responses
- Vercel Agent investigations now available in Slack
- Skew Protection now supports prebuilt deployments
- Turborepo 2.8