August 14, 2026 - August 21, 2026

Vercel Weekly - August 24, 2026
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Top Highlights
- Vercel Agent now works in Slack, allowing teams to mention in any channel to get real-time assistance with deployments, builds, logs, and metrics—turning team discussions into approved code changes without leaving the conversation.
- Vercel is offering a $1 million hacker challenge for anyone who can break out of Vercel Sandbox, the microVM isolation system designed to safely run untrusted AI-generated code with dedicated guest kernels per workload.
- Vercel KMS now lets you sign JWTs and messages from Functions using managed asymmetric signing keys, eliminating the need to store private keys in code or environment variables while your function authenticates with its OIDC token.
Community Projects
- Tintary - a free color-system builder built with Next.js
- I built a Next.js 16 CMS where the whole site is editable in-page
- I built an open-source tool that helps fix broken Vercel deployments — looking for early users
- I launched agent-plugins.directory
- Building a safer way to handle broken Vercel deployments
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- $1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox
- Introducing Vercel for Slack
- How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token
More Updates
- GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month
- Deploy Cursor Origin repositories with Vercel in public beta
- Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
- GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway
- Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- Vercel for Platforms can now deploy from your users' GitHub repositories
- Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter
- Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft
- Vercel for Slack now in public beta
- Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free
- Compliance documents are now available in Team settings
- Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace
- Bun 1.4 is now available in Vercel Functions
- Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI
- Vercel Agent is now available in Slack code channels
- Custom metrics are now supported in Vercel Observability
- Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI
- Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic
- Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
- Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready