Byoa Deploy Vercel

BYOA: deploy Vercel wake function

env defaults to prod when omitted. live is accepted as a user-facing synonym for prod (e.g. /byoa-deploy-vercel live is equivalent to /byoa-deploy-vercel prod and to /byoa-deploy-vercel with no arg). local is the only other valid value.

Picks up where /byoa-link finishes. The operator's ship is already claimed as BYOA, .env.byoa is populated with BYOA_CHARACTER_ID / BYOA_SHIP_ID / BYOA_WAKE_SECRET, and the per-ship wake secret is registered server-side. This skill takes the template Vercel Function at deployment/vercel/ and walks the operator through deploying their own copy.

End state: a Vercel deployment at https://<their-project>.vercel.app/api/wake that auths inbound wakes against BYOA_WAKE_SECRET and spawns a persistent @vercel/sandbox running uv run byoa per wake. The skill prints a ready-to-run ship_byoa_configure set { source_url } curl so the operator can point their ship at it.

Parameters

/byoa-deploy-vercel [env] [--preview] [--no-link] [--out-url <path>] [--access-token <jwt>] [--skip-register]

• env: prod (default, also accepts live as a synonym) or local. Picks the game server endpoint that /login + /ship_byoa_configure are called against (the auto-register step at the end):

  • prod / live → https://api.gradient-bang.com (hardcoded; operator never types it; no env file needed). If the operator types nothing, this is what they get.
  • local → sources SUPABASE_URL from .env.supabase (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:54321 when npx supabase start is running)

  The dev env was dropped — it required internal-only env files that external developers don't have. The skill no longer needs EDGE_API_TOKEN either; ship_byoa_configure and my_corporation authenticate on the user JWT alone via the standard getAuthenticatedUser() pattern (Authorization: Bearer <jwt>).

• --preview: deploy as a Vercel preview instead of production. Almost never what you want for BYOA: Vercel's default Standard Protection gates preview URLs behind SSO, so the game server can't reach them. Use only if you've disabled Project Protection or are testing with a bypass token.

• --no-link: skip the link verification (steps 3a + 3b). Use only when you're certain deployment/vercel/.vercel/project.json is correct.

• --out-url: write the final canonical (alias) URL to this file. Defaults to stdout only.

• --access-token : skip the email+password prompt in step 8 by reusing an existing user JWT (e.g. one just minted by /byoa-link). Token must be valid for the same operator who owns the ship.

• --skip-register: stop after the health-check; don't auto-register source_url. Falls back to printing a manual curl. Use when the operator wants to inspect the deployment first or doesn't have credentials handy.

Default deploy target is production. The BYOA wake endpoint must be publicly reachable by the game server, and only the production alias (<projectName>.vercel.app) is exempt from Vercel's Standard Protection. Per-deploy URLs (<projectName>-<hash>-<team>.vercel.app) are SSO-gated regardless of target.

Tested with Vercel CLI 54.x.

Game tool calls route through the bus, not direct HTTP. The BYOA harness running in the Vercel sandbox never calls the game server directly — it publishes BusGameToolCallRequest messages onto the Postgres bus, and the bot-side Orchestrator broker forwards them to Supabase using the bot's own SUPABASE_URL. wake_agent's injected env (BYOA_BUS_DATABASE_URL, BYOA_CHANNEL, BYOA_SHIP_ID, BYOA_CHARACTER_ID, BYOA_TASK_ID, BYOA_WAKE_REQUEST_ID) contains no game-server URL on purpose. Practical implication: for local-stack testing against a Vercel-deployed receiver, only the Postgres bus needs to be publicly reachable (e.g. via ngrok tcp 54322 + BYOA_BUS_DATABASE_URL set in .env.supabase). No second tunnel for the game server is required. See runtime/orchestrator.py _on_game_tool_call_request for the broker side.

Pre-flight

Stop with a clean error if any of these is true:

• .env.byoa does not exist in cwd → direct the operator to run /byoa-link first.
• .env.byoa is missing any required key: BYOA_WAKE_SECRET, BYOA_SHIP_ID, BYOA_CHARACTER_ID, TASK_LLM_PROVIDER, TASK_LLM_MODEL, and the API key matching the provider (one of ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / GOOGLE_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY / MINIMAX_API_KEY). Check by sourcing the file first (set -a && source .env.byoa && set +a), then verifying each required var is non-empty ([ -n "$BYOA_WAKE_SECRET" ], etc.). Do NOT grep the raw file — commented-out lines like # BYOA_PROMPT=... will match a naive grep BYOA_PROMPT= and produce false "is set" readings. Operators routinely keep commented-out alternates in .env.byoa; source correctly skips them, so trust the resulting env, not the file's text.
• deployment/vercel/ does not exist or is missing api/wake.ts, package.json, or vercel.json — the template was deleted or this skill is being run against the wrong checkout.
• npx vercel --version errors (Vercel CLI not available via npx).
• For env=local: .env.supabase is missing or SUPABASE_URL is unset inside it.

Resolve which API key is required from TASK_LLM_PROVIDER:

If both BYOA_PROMPT and BYOA_PROMPT_FILE are unset, mention that the agent will fall back to the bundled default prompt at deployment/vercel/prompt.md (auto-loaded by wake.ts on every wake — operators can edit it pre-deploy, fork the deploy template, or override via BYOA_PROMPT / BYOA_PROMPT_FILE on the Vercel project env).

Steps

1. Load envs

set -a && source .env.byoa && set +a

Then resolve SUPABASE_URL per the env arg. If the operator typed nothing, treat it as prod. live is accepted as a user-facing synonym for prod:

case "${ENV_ARG:-prod}" in
  prod|live) SUPABASE_URL=https://api.gradient-bang.com ;;
  local)     set -a && source .env.supabase && set +a ;;
  *)         echo "unknown env: ${ENV_ARG}; expected prod | live | local"; exit 1 ;;
esac
# SUPABASE_URL now points at api.gradient-bang.com (prod/live) or http://127.0.0.1:54321 (local)

All curls in step 8 append /functions/v1/<endpoint>, so SUPABASE_URL must NOT include /functions/v1. Never echo BYOA_WAKE_SECRET or any *_API_KEY to the console.

2. Verify Vercel CLI login

npx vercel whoami

If this prints "Not authenticated" (or errors), tell the operator to run npx vercel login in their shell and re-run the skill. Do not try to log them in for them.

3. Verify (or set up) the Vercel link

The canonical link location is deployment/vercel/.vercel/project.json. All subsequent vercel commands must be run from deployment/vercel/ so they pick up the right link.

Skip-able if the link is already in place; otherwise the skill must stop until the operator establishes it — vercel link is interactive (scope / project name / create-new prompts) and operator-specific. Do not pass --yes.

3a. Check for a misplaced .vercel/ at the repo root or deployment/.

ls .vercel/project.json deployment/.vercel/project.json 2>/dev/null

If either prints, a previous vercel link was run from the wrong cwd. Bail with the exact remediation, pasted ready-to-run, and stop:

# If the existing link is for this BYOA project, move it to the right place:
mkdir -p deployment/vercel
mv deployment/.vercel deployment/vercel/.vercel   # or: mv .vercel deployment/vercel/.vercel

# If the link is for a different project (or you want a fresh start), remove it:
rm -rf .vercel deployment/.vercel

Do not auto-move or auto-delete — the operator may have a legitimate .vercel/ for some other project in the repo. Let them pick.

3b. Confirm the canonical link exists.

ls deployment/vercel/.vercel/project.json 2>/dev/null

If present → linked, proceed to step 4.

If missing → stop and surface this exactly:

cd deployment/vercel && npx vercel link

Tell the operator: run that in their shell, follow the prompts (suggested project name: gradient-bang-byoa-<their-handle>), then re-run /byoa-deploy-vercel. The interactive prompts (scope / "link to existing?" / project name) can't be driven from this skill — they must run it themselves.

4. Push project env to Vercel

Push the values from .env.byoa to the production Vercel environment only. The wake function is invoked through the production alias (<projectName>.vercel.app) and preview/development environments are never reached by the game server, so syncing env vars to them is pure noise. Use the rm-then-add pattern so re-runs are idempotent.

All vercel invocations use --cwd deployment/vercel instead of cd deployment/vercel && ... — that way the snippet runs the same whether or not the caller wraps it in a subshell, and accidental cwd drift can't bleed into later steps. Keep --cwd if you edit these commands — chained cd patterns silently move the Bash-tool cwd and break later steps (the operator-side curl in step 8 tries to source .env.supabase from the repo root).

First resolve the LLM-provider API key name + value from TASK_LLM_PROVIDER in one shot (resolving both here avoids ${!VAR} indirect expansion, which works in bash but not zsh — and zsh is the default macOS shell):

case "$TASK_LLM_PROVIDER" in
  anthropic) API_KEY_NAME=ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; API_KEY_VALUE="$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" ;;
  google)    API_KEY_NAME=GOOGLE_API_KEY;    API_KEY_VALUE="$GOOGLE_API_KEY"    ;;
  openai)    API_KEY_NAME=OPENAI_API_KEY;    API_KEY_VALUE="$OPENAI_API_KEY"    ;;
  minimax)   API_KEY_NAME=MINIMAX_API_KEY;   API_KEY_VALUE="$MINIMAX_API_KEY"   ;;
  *) echo "Unknown TASK_LLM_PROVIDER=$TASK_LLM_PROVIDER"; exit 1 ;;
esac

Then push every key to production. The function reads named globals (KEY / VAL) instead of positional bash args — the slash-command loader substitutes literal positional refs (dollar-N) inside fenced code blocks with the skill's command-line args, which silently corrupts shell snippets. Don't use bash positional parameters in skill snippets — use named env vars on the call line instead, as below:

push_env() {
  [ -z "$VAL" ] && return
  npx vercel --cwd deployment/vercel env rm "$KEY" production --yes >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
  if npx vercel --cwd deployment/vercel env add "$KEY" production --value "$VAL" --yes >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "  ✓ $KEY → production"
  else
    echo "  ✗ $KEY → production FAILED"
  fi
}

# Required
KEY=BYOA_WAKE_SECRET   VAL="$BYOA_WAKE_SECRET"   push_env
KEY=TASK_LLM_PROVIDER  VAL="$TASK_LLM_PROVIDER"  push_env
KEY=TASK_LLM_MODEL     VAL="$TASK_LLM_MODEL"     push_env
KEY="$API_KEY_NAME"    VAL="$API_KEY_VALUE"      push_env

# Optional — only push when set
[ -n "$BYOA_PROMPT" ]                       && KEY=BYOA_PROMPT                      VAL="$BYOA_PROMPT"                      push_env
[ -n "$BYOA_PROMPT_FILE" ]                  && KEY=BYOA_PROMPT_FILE                 VAL="$BYOA_PROMPT_FILE"                 push_env
[ -n "$TASK_LLM_THINKING_BUDGET" ]          && KEY=TASK_LLM_THINKING_BUDGET         VAL="$TASK_LLM_THINKING_BUDGET"         push_env
[ -n "$BYOA_TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS" ]    && KEY=BYOA_TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS   VAL="$BYOA_TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS"   push_env
[ -n "$BYOA_AGENT_IDLE_TEARDOWN_SECONDS" ]  && KEY=BYOA_AGENT_IDLE_TEARDOWN_SECONDS VAL="$BYOA_AGENT_IDLE_TEARDOWN_SECONDS" push_env

Note on --value: this puts the secret in the process command line, briefly visible to other local users via ps aux. Acceptable on a developer machine; if pushing on shared infrastructure use vercel env pull + manual edit instead.

If vercel env rm complains "Environment Variable was not found" on first run, that's fine — || true swallows it. The real failure mode is an action_required JSON blob from the add step; if you see one, surface the message and stop. Do not echo BYOA_WAKE_SECRET or API keys to the console in error reporting.

5. Deploy and capture the canonical alias

Default to production (see "Default deploy target" note above). Tee the output so we can grep for the alias line. Same --cwd rule as step 4 — don't replace with chained cd patterns, even in pipelines:

npx vercel --cwd deployment/vercel deploy --prod --yes 2>&1 | tee /tmp/byoa-deploy.log

For --preview (rarely correct for BYOA), drop --prod — but warn the operator the resulting URL will be SSO-gated.

After the deploy, capture two URLs:

# Per-deploy URL (immutable, SSO-gated under Standard Protection — not useful for source_url)
DEPLOY_URL=$(grep -oE 'https://[a-z0-9-]+\.vercel\.app' /tmp/byoa-deploy.log | head -1)

# Canonical alias (public for prod, the URL the game server actually hits).
# Use `cut`, not awk's positional-field operator — the loader rewrites literal
# dollar-N tokens in this file with the slash-command args, which would mangle
# any awk field reference inside a fenced code block.
ALIAS_URL=$(grep -oE 'Aliased: https://[^ ]+' /tmp/byoa-deploy.log | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2)

# Fallback: construct from project.json if the Aliased: line is missing (e.g. on preview deploys)
if [ -z "$ALIAS_URL" ]; then
  PROJECT_NAME=$(grep -o '"projectName":"[^"]*"' deployment/vercel/.vercel/project.json | cut -d'"' -f4)
  ALIAS_URL="https://${PROJECT_NAME}.vercel.app"
fi

On non-zero exit from vercel deploy, surface the CLI's error and stop.

Use ALIAS_URL for everything downstream (health-check, smoke-test, source_url). The per-deploy DEPLOY_URL will 401 on any unauthenticated request because Vercel's Standard Protection gates it behind SSO — even when the function itself is wired correctly. Hitting it during health-checks is the single biggest source of false-negative deployment reports.

Write ALIAS_URL to --out-url if provided.

6. Health-check (against ALIAS_URL)

The function's GET /api/wake returns { status: "ok", wake_secret_configured: <bool> }:

curl -sS -w "\nHTTP %{http_code}\n" "${ALIAS_URL}/api/wake"

Required: HTTP 200 with wake_secret_configured: true.

Failure interpretations:

• HTML body starting with <!doctype html> and an "Authentication Required" page → you hit a SSO-gated URL. You're using DEPLOY_URL instead of ALIAS_URL. Switch and retry. (Do not paste a Vercel bypass token into this skill.)
• HTTP 200 but wake_secret_configured: false → the env push in step 4 didn't land. Re-run step 4 just for BYOA_WAKE_SECRET, redeploy, re-check.
• HTTP 404 → the function didn't deploy. Check the vercel deploy build log in /tmp/byoa-deploy.log for errors in api/wake.ts.

7. Auth smoke-test (against ALIAS_URL)

Confirm the bearer check rejects unsigned requests:

curl -s -o /tmp/byoa-post.out -w "%{http_code}\n" -X POST "${ALIAS_URL}/api/wake" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}'
cat /tmp/byoa-post.out

Expect HTTP 401 and body {"success":false,"error":"unauthorized"}. Anything else (especially HTML or 200) means either:

• you hit DEPLOY_URL (the 401 here would be Vercel SSO, not the function's bearer check — false positive), or
• bearer auth isn't wired correctly.

Confirm the body matches unauthorized exactly before proceeding. Do not let the operator point a ship at a function that doesn't enforce bearer auth.

8. Register source_url with the game server

Now that the deployment is verified, register ALIAS_URL as the ship's source_url so the game server's wake_agent knows where to POST. The ship was already claimed by /byoa-link, and wake_secret was already registered there — this call is a partial set that only touches source_url. (Verified: ship_byoa_configure supports wake_secret and source_url independently via p_update_wake_secret / p_update_source_url.)

Skip this whole step if --skip-register was passed; jump straight to the manual-fallback block at the bottom.

8a. Get a user JWT.

If --access-token <jwt> was passed, use it as ACCESS_TOKEN and skip to 8b.

Otherwise prompt the operator in chat (one message asking for email + password — they paste back). Then:

LOGIN_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST "${SUPABASE_URL}/functions/v1/login" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"email\": \"$EMAIL\", \"password\": \"$PASSWORD\"}")

ACCESS_TOKEN=$(echo "$LOGIN_RESPONSE" | grep -o '"access_token":"[^"]*"' | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4)

if [ -z "$ACCESS_TOKEN" ]; then
  echo "Login failed:"
  echo "$LOGIN_RESPONSE"
  # Don't stop — fall through to the manual curl in 8c so the operator can finish by hand.
fi

Never echo $PASSWORD after capture. Don't print $ACCESS_TOKEN to chat either — it's a short-lived but still-sensitive bearer.

On a 401 or success: false response: don't retry (likely bad creds). Surface the response body and fall through to 8c. Other failure modes (5xx, network) also fall through.

8b. POST source_url.

REGISTER_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST "${SUPABASE_URL}/functions/v1/ship_byoa_configure" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d "{
    \"character_id\": \"$BYOA_CHARACTER_ID\",
    \"ship_id\": \"$BYOA_SHIP_ID\",
    \"action\": \"set\",
    \"source_url\": \"${ALIAS_URL}/api/wake\"
  }")
echo "$REGISTER_RESPONSE"

Expect a response containing "source_url_updated":true. If not, surface the body and fall through to 8c. Common failure modes:

• "No authorization token provided" / "Invalid or expired token" → ACCESS_TOKEN is empty or expired; re-run step 8a
• 403 forbidden → the JWT's user does not own the ship referenced by BYOA_SHIP_ID; re-run /byoa-link with the right account
• source_url must be http(s):// and ≤ 4096 chars → ALIAS_URL is empty/malformed; check step 5's fallback

8c. Manual fallback (printed only on auto-register failure or --skip-register).

curl -s -X POST "${SUPABASE_URL}/functions/v1/ship_byoa_configure" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your access token from /login>" \
  -d '{
    "character_id": "'"$BYOA_CHARACTER_ID"'",
    "ship_id": "'"$BYOA_SHIP_ID"'",
    "action": "set",
    "source_url": "'"$ALIAS_URL"'/api/wake"
  }'

ALIAS_URL (the <projectName>.vercel.app form) is stable, so the registered source_url survives future deploys — no re-registration needed unless you change Vercel projects. Never register a DEPLOY_URL (per-deploy hash): it rotates every deploy and 401s the game server via Vercel SSO.

Fresh access tokens can be minted by re-running /byoa-link <env> --force --ship-id $BYOA_SHIP_ID (also rotates wake_secret, which then needs a redeploy here to sync the Vercel env — pass --access-token <jwt> to skip the re-login on the redeploy).

9. Report

End with a terse summary:

• Canonical alias (${ALIAS_URL}) — what's registered as source_url
• Per-deploy URL (${DEPLOY_URL}) — for vercel inspect / dashboard only; SSO-gated
• Wake endpoint (${ALIAS_URL}/api/wake)
• Health-check result (✓ wake_secret_configured, ✓ 401 unauthorized on unauthed POST)
• Registration result: ✓ source_url_updated: true (or, if step 8 fell through: ⚠️ auto-register skipped/failed — see the manual curl above)
• Next step: start a task on the ship from the bot. Tail Vercel logs with npx vercel logs ${ALIAS_URL} and watch for the first wake — the initial clone + uv sync takes 30–60s on cold sandbox.
• Pointer to docs/byoa-vercel.md for troubleshooting.

Failure modes

• Missing .env.byoa: run /byoa-link first.
• vercel whoami says not authenticated: npx vercel login, then re-run.
• deployment/vercel/.vercel/project.json missing: run cd deployment/vercel && npx vercel link interactively, then re-run.
• Stray .vercel/ at repo root or deployment/: an earlier vercel link was run from the wrong cwd. Either mv it into deployment/vercel/.vercel/ or rm -rf it and re-link from inside deployment/vercel/.
• Health check returns HTML "Authentication Required": you're hitting DEPLOY_URL (per-deploy hash URL), which is gated by Vercel Standard Protection. Use ALIAS_URL (<projectName>.vercel.app) instead. This is always a URL confusion, never a function-level auth bug.
• Health check returns wake_secret_configured: false: env push didn't propagate to production — re-run step 4 for BYOA_WAKE_SECRET and redeploy. (Step 4 only writes to the production Vercel env, so a preview-target deploy will always see this; if you deployed --preview, redeploy --prod.)
• POST returns anything but 401 {"success":false,"error":"unauthorized"} in step 7: bearer check broken (or you hit DEPLOY_URL and saw a Vercel SSO 401 — re-check against ALIAS_URL). Do not register source_url until the function-level 401 is confirmed.
• Aliased: line missing from vercel deploy output: happens on preview deploys (no automatic alias) and on first-ever production deploy for some projects. The step-5 snippet falls back to constructing https://<projectName>.vercel.app from .vercel/project.json.
• Deploy went to target: production even without --prod: the project default in Vercel is set to production-on-deploy. Harmless for BYOA (we want prod anyway) but worth knowing if you expected a preview.
• First wake takes > 60s and times out on Hobby plan: bump maxDuration in vercel.json (Hobby caps at 60s; Pro at 800s) or upgrade plan.
• /login returns 401 / success: false in step 8a: bad credentials. Don't retry — fall through to the manual curl. Skill prints 8c and the operator finishes by hand.
• ship_byoa_configure returns 403 forbidden or Only the current BYOA owner can set wake config: the JWT belongs to a different operator than the one who claimed the ship. Either re-run /byoa-link with the right account, or supply --access-token from the right account on the next deploy.
• ship_byoa_configure returns 401 "No authorization token provided": the Authorization: Bearer header was empty (likely because step 8a's ACCESS_TOKEN extraction failed silently). Surface the raw login response and re-run step 8a.

What this skill does NOT do

• Claim the ship or generate the wake secret — that's /byoa-link. This skill only registers the source_url for an already-claimed, already-wake-secret-registered ship.
• Persist the user JWT — it's used in-memory for the single ship_byoa_configure call and discarded. Operators wanting to skip the login prompt should pass --access-token <jwt> directly.
• Edit the wake function code — operators who want custom behavior should fork the template directory.
• Author the prompt for the operator — wake.ts auto-loads deployment/vercel/prompt.md on every wake when neither BYOA_PROMPT nor BYOA_PROMPT_FILE is set in operator env. Operators wanting to override the default either edit prompt.md before deploying (changes ride along with the next vercel deploy, picked up by sandboxes on next provision) or set BYOA_PROMPT (inline ≤ 8 KB) on the Vercel project env.

Source: pipecat-ai/gradient-bang — distributed by TomeVault.