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Monthly AI token traffic is up roughly tenfold, and AI SDK 6 adds agents, tool-execution approval, DevTools, and full MCP support (IT Brief). The deploy trigger, long a human CI action, is becoming an agent action. That reshapes what a platform optimizes for: agent throughput and approval gates, not seat-based dashboards. This isn't a prediction, it's an early read on how much of the developer-platform funnel is already agent-driven.
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At Vercel Ship 26 in London today, Guillermo Rauch launched what he's calling the Agent Stack: AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, Workflow SDK, and Chat SDK, plus a new Vercel Connect and a set of enterprise agent controls. Vercel is repositioning the entire platform around running...
Up from ~446K a year ago, with agents, tool-execution approval, full MCP support, and DevTools that show step-by-step LLM/agent calls (Vercel). Agent tracing and observability is becoming a free SDK feature rather than a standalone paid product. If you were planning to pay for...
Google shipped the bridge between terminal agents and visual debugging, and the HN response tells you how badly people wanted it. Chrome DevTools MCP (requiring Chrome M144 beta) now lets coding agents auto-connect to your running browser session via --autoConnect, including s...
@ai-sdk/harness-cursor connects Cursor to the HarnessAgent interface through @ai-sdk/harness-acp over the Agent Client Protocol (Vercel). Instantiating is two lines and swapping the harness value changes which agent runs without touching application code. Coverage now spans Cl...
YC-backed, launched August 5 at #7, open alpha with $20 free credits. Agents wrap Vercel's AI SDK and use workflows, actions, other agents, MCP servers, and 1,000+ integrations as tools, with memory, persistent filesystem, web search, triggers, approvals, and optional VM sandb...
v0.14.0 landed July 28 and model/tool data is no longer logged unless you explicitly opt in. It also brings Programmatic Tool Calling to JS (the model generates hosted JavaScript that coordinates tools and reduces intermediate results, preserved across streaming, sessions, and...
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