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Infra2026-07-18 · source-backed
Per the changelog, installing packages, cloning repos, and pulling datasets from external sources are now free. For agent workloads that npm-install or git-clone on every invocation, download egress was an unpredictable line item that made per-task budgeting guesswork. This makes Sandbox meaningfully more viable as an agent execution environment, which connects directly to story five: the cheapest way to not have your files deleted is to run somewhere they aren't.
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Announced August 7: Hermes can use AI Gateway as its inference layer for 200+ models with no token markup and per-request dashboard visibility, and execute shell commands inside an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM instead of on your machine, with Node.js 24/22 and Python 3.13 a...
iad1 stays the default, joined by sfo1, cle1 and cdg1, with region choice on all plans and failover configuration limited to Pro and Enterprise. Set it in Settings, via vercel project update my-project --sandbox-region cdg1 --sandbox-failover-regions iad1,cle1, or by passing r...
Announced at Vercel Ship 2026, AI SDK 7 converts a model-abstraction library into a toolkit for agents that reason, call tools, run across many turns, and work across files and sandboxes, behind one provider-agnostic interface. Vercel paired it with Eve (define agent instructi...
Malte Ubl argues defenders hold a temporary edge because they can run stronger models than attackers, and that edge is closing (Vercel). K3 matches Sonnet 5 and beats Opus 4.8 on vulnerability discovery; asked to escape Vercel Sandbox it mapped attack surface, found privilege-...
Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI published an investigation into "a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files," finding it happens most commonly when full access mode is enabled in Codex. Simon Willison relayed it. A frontier lab publishing a first-party post-mort...
Vercel shipped it July 28: a fork starts from the source sandbox's current snapshot, inherits config and env vars, and supports per-field overrides. Forking takes about the same time as creating a sandbox with equivalent limits and falls back to fresh creation when no snapshot...
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