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The end of credential sprawl for agents

Vercel News·Hedi Zandi·5 days ago
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Every useful agent reaches beyond your codebase. It posts to Slack, opens pull requests, queries Snowflake, or calls an internal API. That reach is what makes it valuable, and it's also where the risk lives, because for years, granting it meant provisioning a long-lived token and hoping it never leaked.

Vercel Connect replaces long-lived tokens with ones your code requests at runtime, scoped to the task and expiring on their own.

During the public beta , we've grown the ecosystem past 100 connectors, unified how they work, and added the governance capabilities teams need in production.

Today, Vercel Connect is generally available.

Connect to 100+ services through secure, scoped tokens

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Managing credentials has become its own workload. Teams write rotation scripts, copy secrets across environments, and share tokens between users. Putting a token in a vault made it harder to steal, but no less dangerous once stolen.…

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