vercel

eve framework guidance for durable AI agents and agent-powered applications. Use when creating, editing, or debugging an eve project, when the user explicitly asks for eve, or when the build-agents skill has selected eve as the default framework. Covers eve's filesystem-first runtime, durable sessions, tools, skills, connections, channels, sandboxes, subagents, schedules, evals, frontend clients, and Agent Runs observability. Do not use for incidental agent mentions, generic agent-building prompts, or established non-eve stacks unless the user asks for comparison or migration.

Authentication integration guidance — Clerk (native Vercel Marketplace), Descope, and Auth0 setup for Next.js applications. Covers middleware auth patterns, sign-in/sign-up flows, and Marketplace provisioning. Use when implementing user authentication.

Vercel AI SDK expert guidance. Use when building AI-powered features — chat interfaces, text generation, structured output, tool calling, agents, MCP integration, streaming, embeddings, reranking, image generation, or working with any LLM provider.

Next.js App Router expert guidance. Use when building, debugging, or architecting Next.js applications — routing, Server Components, Server Actions, Cache Components, layouts, middleware/proxy, data fetching, rendering strategies, and deployment on Vercel.

shadcn/ui expert guidance — CLI, component installation, composition patterns, custom registries, theming, Tailwind CSS integration, and high-quality interface design. Use when initializing shadcn, adding components, composing product UI, building custom registries, configuring themes, or troubleshooting component issues.

Vercel environment variable expert guidance. Use when working with .env files, vercel env commands, OIDC tokens, or managing environment-specific configuration.

Vercel Workflow SDK expert guidance. Use when building durable workflows, long-running tasks, API routes or agents that need pause/resume, retries, step-based execution, or crash-safe orchestration with Vercel Workflow.

Project bootstrapping orchestrator for repos that depend on Vercel-linked resources (databases, auth, and managed integrations). Use when setting up or repairing a repository so linking, environment provisioning, env pulls, and first-run db/dev commands happen in the correct safe order.

Flags SDK and Vercel Flags expert guidance. Use when declaring feature flags with flag(), wiring provider adapters (Vercel, Statsig, LaunchDarkly, PostHog, and others), managing flags with the vercel flags CLI, implementing the precompute pattern for static A/B tests, or integrating the Flags Explorer.

Turbopack expert guidance. Use when configuring the Next.js bundler, optimizing HMR, debugging build issues, or understanding the Turbopack vs Webpack differences.

Vercel AI Gateway guidance for setup, model discovery, authentication, routing, fallbacks, BYOK, budgets, spend reporting, observability, compatible APIs, and coding-agent configuration. Use when adding AI Gateway to an app, migrating provider calls, choosing models or providers, debugging gateway requests, or running `vercel ai-gateway` commands.

next-forge expert guidance — production-grade Turborepo monorepo SaaS starter by Vercel. Use when working in a next-forge project, scaffolding with `npx next-forge init`, or editing @repo/* workspace packages.

Vercel CLI expert guidance. Use when deploying, managing environment variables, linking projects, viewing logs, querying metrics, managing domains, or interacting with the Vercel platform from the command line.

Debug Vercel CDN caching — cache hit rate, stale content, revalidation behavior, ISR + PPR, per-request cache reasons (cacheReason) and PPR state (ppr_state), and costs.

Vercel Marketplace expert guidance — discovering, installing, and managing third-party integrations via the `vercel integration` CLI. Use when building any app that needs an external capability without a dedicated skill — commerce (stores, storefronts, selling products), payments (checkout, subscriptions, billing), observability/monitoring, messaging/email, search, or CMS — or when discovering, installing, or managing integrations.

Default guidance for building AI agents. Use for generic requests to build, create, scaffold, design, architect, or implement an AI agent, agent app, tool-calling agent, durable agent, multi-agent system, or scheduled agent.

Upgrade Next.js to the latest version following official migration guides and codemods. Use when upgrading Next.js versions, running codemods, or migrating between major releases.

Vercel Agent guidance — AI-powered code review, incident investigation, and SDK installation. Automates PR analysis and anomaly debugging. Use when configuring or understanding Vercel's AI development tools.

Full-story verification — infers what the user is building, then verifies the complete flow end-to-end: browser → API → data → response. Triggers on dev server start and 'why isn't this working' signals.

Vercel Runtime Cache API guidance — ephemeral per-region key-value cache with tag-based invalidation. Shared across Functions, Routing Middleware, and Builds. Use when implementing caching strategies beyond framework-level caching.

Guide for building, configuring, and deploying microfrontends on Vercel. Use this skill when the user mentions microfrontends, multi-zones, splitting an app across teams, independent deployments, cross-app routing, incremental migration, composing multiple frontends under one domain, microfrontends.json, @vercel/microfrontends, the microfrontends local proxy, or path-based routing between Vercel projects. Also use when the user asks about shared layouts across projects, navigation between microfrontends, fallback environments, asset prefixes, or feature flag controlled routing.

Vercel Connect expert guidance — securely obtain scoped OAuth tokens for third-party services (Slack, GitHub, MCP servers, OAuth, Snowflake) on behalf of apps or users via Vercel OIDC. Use when wiring up third-party API access, connecting to MCP servers, sending Slack messages, accessing GitHub APIs, receiving webhook events from Slack/Linear/GitHub and forwarding them to your agents and apps, or building eve agent connections.

Vercel Sandbox guidance — ephemeral Firecracker microVMs for running untrusted code safely. Supports AI agents, code generation, and experimentation. Use when executing user-generated or AI-generated code in isolation.

Vercel storage expert guidance — Blob, Global Config (formerly Edge Config), and Marketplace storage (Neon Postgres, Upstash Redis). Use when choosing, configuring, or using data storage with Vercel applications.

Release vercel-plugin — run gates, bump version, generate artifacts, commit, and push. Use when asked to "release", "ship", "bump and push", or "cut a release".

Vercel Firewall expert guidance — automatic DDoS mitigation, the Vercel WAF (custom rules, IP blocking, managed rulesets, rate limiting), Attack Mode, system bypass, bot management, and the `vercel firewall` CLI. Use when configuring platform-level security, responding to attacks, or staging firewall rules.

Configure and troubleshoot Vercel Services for multiple frontends and backends in one project. Use when composing a polyglot or multi-service application on one Vercel deployment; defining the `services` key, service-targeted rewrites, or service bindings in `vercel.json`; or running all services with `vercel dev`.

Backend architecture guidance. Use when planning, building, or migrating an API or backend; choosing between Functions, Services, containers, Workflow, Queues, and Marketplace databases; or selecting a supported backend framework or runtime.

Vercel deployment and CI/CD expert guidance. Use when deploying, promoting, rolling back, inspecting deployments, building with --prebuilt, or configuring CI workflow files for Vercel.

Corrects outdated LLM knowledge about the Vercel platform and introduces new products. Injected at session start.

Vercel Functions expert guidance — Serverless Functions, Edge Functions, Fluid Compute, streaming, Cron Jobs, and runtime configuration. Use when configuring, debugging, or optimizing server-side code running on Vercel.

Vercel Routing Middleware guidance — request interception before cache, rewrites, redirects, personalization. Works with any framework. Supports Edge, Node.js, and Bun runtimes. Use when intercepting requests at the platform level.

Audit vercel-plugin performance on real-world projects. Extracts tool calls from Claude Code conversation logs, tests hook matching against actual inputs, identifies pattern coverage gaps, and checks plugin cache staleness. Use when asked to audit, test, or investigate plugin skill injection on a real project.

React best-practices reviewer for TSX files. Triggers after editing multiple TSX components to run a condensed quality checklist covering component structure, hooks usage, accessibility, performance, and TypeScript patterns.

End-to-end benchmark suite for vercel-plugin. Runs realistic projects through skill injection, launches dev servers, verifies everything works, analyzes conversation logs, and produces an improvement report for overnight self-improvement loops.

Next.js 16 Cache Components guidance — PPR, use cache directive, cacheLife, cacheTag, updateTag, and migration from unstable_cache. Use when implementing partial prerendering, caching strategies, or migrating from older Next.js cache patterns.

Advanced AI agent benchmark scenarios that push Vercel's cutting-edge platform features — Workflow SDK, AI Gateway, MCP, Chat SDK, Queues, Flags, Sandbox, and multi-agent orchestration. Designed to stress-test skill injection for complex, multi-system builds.

Run vercel-plugin eval scenarios in Vercel Sandboxes instead of local WezTerm panels. Provisions ephemeral microVMs with Claude Code + plugin pre-installed, runs benchmark prompts, extracts hook artifacts, and produces coverage reports.

Create and launch benchmark test projects to exercise vercel-plugin skill injection across realistic scenarios. Sets up isolated directories, installs the plugin, and spawns WezTerm panes running Claude Code with crafted prompts.

Run live eval sessions against the vercel-plugin to verify hook behavior, skill injection, dedup correctness, and coverage. Launches real Claude Code sessions via WezTerm, monitors debug logs, and produces a structured coverage report.

Access and test Vercel deployments protected by Vercel Authentication, SSO, or Deployment Protection. Use when curl, agent-browser, Playwright, or another automated request reaches a Vercel login or protection page; when a protected preview or production URL returns 401 or 403; when TRUSTED_SOURCES_ENVIRONMENT_MISMATCH appears; or when choosing between `vercel curl` and the `x-vercel-trusted-oidc-idp-token` header.