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Cursor keeps the harness and inference loop; you supply the execution environment. Each agent request gets a dedicated isolated Firecracker microVM from a scale-to-zero worker pool with no long-lived VMs, with Vercel Functions and Workflow as the control plane for queuing, provisioning, monitoring and cleanup. Requires a Cursor Enterprise plan. Vercel
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Guillermo Rauch posted on August 3 that Vercel built an internal agent called @v that "powers day-to-day operations" and is an expert in finance, comms, docs, marketing, engineering and business analytics. Daily interactions and token use both growing exponentially. It's seede...
Cursor's 2026-08-19 changelog adds Subscriptions to cloud agents, and it changes what an agent *is* in a way that a normal feature bullet undersells. An agent can now subscribe to an event stream and act on it without you prompting anything. Agents automatically subscribe to P...
Open issues on the AI SDK went from 1,022 to 844 in four weeks. That's the number I'd lead with if I were writing this post, and Vercel did. Vercel published the internals of the system it built to maintain the AI SDK, a repo with over 20 million npm downloads a week, 26,000+...
Cursor's Plugin Marketplace (Feb 17-18) packages skills, subagents, MCP servers, hooks, and rules into single-install plugins with fine-grained network controls. Cursor Cloud Agents (Feb 24) run on isolated VMs that build, test, record video demos, and produce merge-ready PRs....
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
Vercel shipped Eve, an open-source TypeScript-native agent framework, on June 17 at Ship 26 in London. Every agent is a directory of files that compiles to a durable production service on Vercel Functions: session state persisted and replayed via Vercel Workflow, sandboxed com...
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