Vercel Connect Goes GA: Deployments Swap Long-Lived Provider Secrets for OIDC-Scoped Short-Lived Tokens

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Vercel Connect reached general availability on August 25 across all plans and in v0. Instead of storing provider secrets in env vars, a deployment authenticates with its existing Vercel OIDC identity and calls getToken() for a task-scoped, short-lived credential that the platform refreshes and expires automatically. It covers 100+ integrations including managed connectors for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Salesforce, Snowflake and Microsoft, plus generic OAuth, API keys and MCP servers.