Vercel Staff
August 21, 2026 - August 28, 2026
Vercel Weekly - August 31, 2026
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Top Highlights
- Vercel Connect is now generally available, enabling apps and agents to use short-lived, scoped tokens instead of storing long-lived provider secrets, with support for over 100 services including Slack, Google, Notion, and GitHub. This eliminates credential sprawl by having deployments authenticate with their existing Vercel OIDC identity.
- The new Run SDK provides secure eval for AI agents, allowing TypeScript programs written by agents to execute with proper authentication and human approval gates when touching real applications. This addresses the critical security challenge of agents coordinating tools and processing results in production environments.
- Vercel introduced eve agents that can be built and deployed directly from the dashboard in just a few clicks, automatically scaffolding the agent, creating a private Git repository, and deploying it as a working project.
Community Projects
- Vercel launched a cool tool that checks how agent friendly a site is. I tried it on my project and got 100
- I built a Figma plugin that turns React and Next.js projects into editable designs
- Gitphere // your GitHub network on a 3D globe
- Attrifast — AI visibility + Stripe revenue attribution, built with Next.js 15 and AI Gateway
- pdfcn - Beautiful PDFs, made simple
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel
- The end of credential sprawl for agents
- Introducing Run SDK: secure eval for your agents
- The best workflow engine is a programming language
More Updates
- Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
- Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration
- Environment variables now use Config and Secret types
- Vercel Sandbox is now globally available
- Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades
- Chat SDK now supports XChat
- Bring your agent to Notion with Chat SDK
- Vercel Connect now supports Linq
- Chat SDK now supports Slack Enterprise Grid
- Vercel Connect is now generally available
- AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
- Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway
- MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway
- Speed Insights now has a free tier
- Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities
- Python projects now support routing rules
- Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
- GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
- Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
- Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
- Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
- Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
- Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
- Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard
- Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway