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Vercel Connect is now generally available

Vercel Connect is now GA: runtime token auth for agents, no stored secrets. Integrates with AI SDK, MCP, eve, and GitHub tooling.

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Why it matters

A critical infrastructure launch for practitioners building agents: runtime-scoped authentication eliminates long-lived secrets, integrates natively with agent frameworks (AI SDK, MCP, eve), and ships audit/revocation built-in. This is the operational plumbing that makes agent deployments secure and auditable at scale.

The key facts

8 to know
  1. Runtime short-lived tokens replace stored provider secrets

  2. 100+ preset connectors (Notion, Workday, Slack, GitHub, Linear, Salesforce, Snowflake, Microsoft)

  3. Native adapters for AI SDK, MCP, eve, Better Auth, Auth.js, Chat SDK

  4. Per-environment attachment and one-command revocation

  5. Pricing: Hobby 500 token requests + 1,000 triggers/month free; Pro $3/1,000 requests, $0.95/1,000 triggers

  6. Audit logs and token observability included

  7. Supports Deployment Protection and trigger signature verification

  8. Works with GitHub Tools via eve extension; scopes map automatically to Connect permissions

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: is now generally available on all plans and in . Instead of storing long-lived provider secrets, your code requests short-lived, scoped tokens at runtime. Deployments authenticate with their existing Vercel OIDC identity. Each token is scoped to the task, refreshed automatically, and expires on its…
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