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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.

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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 know
  1. Public Beta launch of Vercel Connect

  2. Scoped, short-lived tokens issued at runtime only when needed

  3. Pre-built connectors for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Discord, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake

  4. Support for OAuth, API keys, and MCP servers

  5. Token-level granularity: GitHub tokens can be limited to single repo, read-only

  6. User-identity binding: agents inherit user permissions, not broad app access

  7. Environment isolation: separate connectors for dev/preview/production

  8. Webhook triggers for Slack, GitHub, Linear (beta)

  9. Pricing: Hobby tier 5,000 requests/month free; Pro/Enterprise $3 per 10,000 requests

  10. 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…
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