Vercel Staff(edited)
September 25, 2026 - October 2, 2026
Vercel Weekly - October 5, 2026
Vercel
Top Highlights
- Vercel Sandbox adds Secure Compute support - Sandboxes can now connect to a team's dedicated network with static IP egress and private AWS VPC resource access via VPC peering, giving teams a secure path to internal resources.
- Agent Skills ecosystem hits major milestone - In just seven months, the skills.sh registry exploded to one million agent skills with nearly 280 million installs, demonstrating the rapid growth and adoption of modular AI agent capabilities.
- Microsoft AI models join Vercel's AI Gateway - Vercel has partnered with Microsoft AI to offer exclusive access to MAI models through AI Gateway, making it one of only a limited number of platforms providing this integration alongside new model releases like GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Community Projects
- Played with Vercel Lab's json-render with Jev to read Posthog data
- Open-Source Email Infrastructure for Developers
- PortlessBar: a native macOS menu bar companion for Portless
- 🥨 PretzelGraph - an open source visual graph agent runtime
- career-ops: open-source AI job search agent (Vercel OSS Program)
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- State of agent skills
- September 2026 Security Release (Next.js)
- How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel
- Jev for Python engineers
Events
- This Week
- Next Week
You can always find the latest Vercel events on the community calendar
More Updates
- Vercel Marketplace database browser now supports Redis
- Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
- Push images to Vercel Container Registry from GitHub Actions
- Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway
- Search domains without authentication
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
- GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway
- Search trace spans from the Vercel CLI
- Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions
- Vercel Sandbox now supports Secure Compute
- Ling 3.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel CDN no longer caches responses with Vary: Cookie
- Edge Requests are now called CDN Requests
- AI Gateway adds Browserbase Search and Fetch tools
- Vercel Agent now installs private packages from npm and custom registries
- Laya decision model now available on AI Gateway, free through October 31
- Microsoft AI models are now available on AI Gateway
- Speed Insights deprecates First Input Delay on November 1st