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Vercel puts AI Gateway and Sandbox microVMs behind Nous Research's Hermes Agent
Announced August 7, Hermes Agent — Nous Research's coding agent — can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer, reaching 200+ models with no markup on tokens and per-request visibility in the AI Gateway dashboard. It can also execute its shell commands inside an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM instead of on your machine, with Node.js 24/22 and Python 3.13 runtimes and a workspace root at /vercel/sandbox. The sandbox is opt-in — commands run locally until you set terminal.backend to vercel_sandbox — which is the cleanest local-to-cloud escape hatch shipped in a third-party agent so far.
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