Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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An agent can literally just be an instructions file. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Andrew and Casey, the tech leads on eve, Vercel's open-source agent framework, build one from scratch on stage: scaffold it on the command line, talk to it in the terminal, deploy it to the cloud, and chat with it in Slack, with the audience tagging it live.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Scaffolding an agent: npx init and eve dev
3:24 Channels: from terminal to Slack via Vercel Connect
6:05 Debugging live in the Vercel dashboard
7:25 Connections: OpenAPI data in one prompt
11:36 Tools with approvals: the MongoDB example
17:49 Evals: deterministic checks and LLM as judge
20:38 WebSockets, generative UI, and frameworks
28:10 Architecture: stateless harness on the Workflow SDK
35:34 Q&A: extensibility, pricing, and eve versus the field

LINKS
Ship 2026 recap → vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap
Vercel docs → vercel.com/docs
Start building → vercel.com

FOLLOW VERCEL
X → https://x.com/vercel
LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/vercel
GitHub → github.com/vercel

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