Vercel argues that compute isolation alone can't stop AI agents from exfiltrating data or probing internal services. Sandboxes need egress control too.
Vercel Sandbox SDK v3 defaults to vercel/sandbox/universal:latest, a prebuilt Ubuntu image with Node.js, Python, and coding agents. Old runtimes are deprecated.
Hermes Agent routes inference through Vercel AI Gateway (200+ models, no token markup) and executes commands in Vercel Sandbox's isolated microVMs. Setup is a picker flow.
Vercel Chat SDK adds requestApproval: one call posts an Approve/Deny card and suspends the workflow until a human decides. No approvals table or polling loop required.
Vercel's new v0 API gives programmatic access to its app-building agent. Send a prompt, get a running app with a live preview URL — now generally available.
Chat SDK's new X adapter adds mention and DM bot support to X, joining Slack, Discord, GitHub, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp in a single-codebase approach.
Vercel's July 2026 Production Index shows open-weight models at 29% of token volume on under 4% of spend. DeepSeek hits 22.6%. Price per token flattens after May's 20% jump.
Vercel's Chat SDK now supports Dial via a vendor-official adapter — SMS, MMS, iMessage, and voice-call transcripts on real phone numbers, all through standard thread APIs.
Vercel Connect now manages Chat SDK bot credentials for Slack, GitHub, and Linear — no tokens or signing secrets to store or rotate yourself.
eve's new Chat SDK channel connects durable agents to Slack, WhatsApp, Messenger, Resend, and any Chat SDK adapter through a single handler-driven bridge.
Vercel's new 'vercel metrics' CLI command lets you pull page views, visitors, and custom events directly from the terminal — and hand the data to coding agents.
Vercel is now a send-to destination in Claude Design. Connect via MCP, hit share, and get a live URL back — no Git, no CLI, no context switching.
xAI's Grok Build 0.1 is now accessible via Vercel AI Gateway at $1/M input tokens and $2/M output tokens, with a 256K context window.
Kimi K2.7 Code, a 1T MoE coding model with 262K context and vision input, is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway and AI SDK.
Vercel Drop lets you deploy any project by dragging files into your browser. No Git, no CLI. Framework detection, static files, and AI tool exports all supported.
Firecrawl is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, giving teams structured web data for AI agents without managing crawling infrastructure.