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Tools opt in through an experimental_webMcp config object, a script tag loads the handler with a ?webmcp-script parameter, and each call proxies back to the MCP server as the signed-in user. Vercel Authenticated tools work without a browser-side OAuth flow, which removes the main reason browser-resident agents couldn't reach authenticated server tools.
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Now on 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 credential the platform refreshes and expires. Covers 100+ integrations including managed conne...
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...
Up from ~446K a year ago, with agents, tool-execution approval, full MCP support, and DevTools that show step-by-step LLM/agent calls (Vercel). Agent tracing and observability is becoming a free SDK feature rather than a standalone paid product. If you were planning to pay for...
Salesforce unveiled Headless 360 at TDX, and this is the most aggressive enterprise platform pivot I've seen. Every capability across Customer 360, Slack, Agentforce, and Data 360 is now accessible via APIs, MCP tools, or CLI commands. No browser. No clicking through the Sales...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Stripe published Part 2 of its Minions engineering blog, and it's the most detailed production agent architecture I've read from any company this year. The numbers alone are worth the read: 1,300+ weekly merged PRs from coding agents. But the architecture decisions matter more...
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