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Vercel Ships AI SDK 7 — 16 Million Weekly Downloads, Now a Full Agent Runtime With Sandboxes and Multi-Turn Tool Loops
Announced at Vercel Ship 2026, AI SDK 7 converts what was a model-abstraction library into a toolkit for building and running agents that reason, call tools, run across many turns, and work across files and sandboxes — all behind one provider-agnostic interface. Vercel paired it with Eve, a framework letting companies define agent instructions and skills in natural language, and Vercel Sandbox, which restricts what data agents can access or export. The download figure (16M/week) makes this arguably the highest-distribution agent runtime shipped this year, which matters more than its feature list.
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