Exiting the phase of my career where I realize everything is a compiler problem and entering the phase where I realize everything is a dependency management problem.
Vercel Agent now works in @SlackHQ Code, with your app's full production context and zero setup.
▪︎ Connect secrets, env vars, commands, repos
▪︎ Steer the agent as a team
▪︎ Review diffs and ship directly in code channels
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This is why we didn't build anything special for Vercel Agent to talk to Vercel APIs. When you start a new chat in the dashboard, it's literally just a sandbox + Vercel CLI + stock Vercel CLI skills.
This week we read research from a team of academics that ran a software task across 7 agents and 5 models.
They found that in domains with a mature CLI ecosystem, agents without MCP baked in completed the task just as reliably and were 5-28x cheaper.
Full arXiv paper below
Celebrating small wins is hardwired into "Achieve," our goal-tracking sample app.
We wanted the simple act of checking off a task to feel like a celebration. Instead of the standard #Material ripple, we used Styles to drop in a custom, high-contrast completion