Vercel Connect: Secure access to external services for your agents
Vercel just shipped the infrastructure layer agents actually need. Scoped tokens, automatic revocation, multi-provider connectors—no more storing secrets in your codebase.
Why it matters
Vercel Connect solves a critical operational problem for AI agents in production: secure, granular access to external services without long-lived credentials. This is infrastructure for the agent economy—not a model, but the plumbing that makes deployed agents trustworthy at scale.
The key facts
10 to knowPublic Beta launch of Vercel Connect
Scoped, short-lived tokens issued at runtime only when needed
Pre-built connectors for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Discord, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake
Support for OAuth, API keys, and MCP servers
Token-level granularity: GitHub tokens can be limited to single repo, read-only
User-identity binding: agents inherit user permissions, not broad app access
Environment isolation: separate connectors for dev/preview/production
Webhook triggers for Slack, GitHub, Linear (beta)
Pricing: Hobby tier 5,000 requests/month free; Pro/Enterprise $3 per 10,000 requests
Adapters for Better Auth, Auth.js, eve, AI SDK, MCP clients
Go to the source
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Publisher excerpt: lets your apps and agents access external services like Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, and your own custom APIs without storing a long-lived provider secret in your environment. You register a connector once, and your code requests scoped, short-lived tokens at runtime, only when it needs them.Vercel…
