Giving your agents access to your tools, data, and services is what makes them useful. As agents perform deeper work across systems, authenticating and authorizing that access becomes central to your application architecture.

Today, agent access is usually granted through long-lived provider tokens stored in your environment variables, provisioned for everything your agent might need. These tokens are shared across every user, never expire, and give your agent full reach across every task, no matter how small the job.

A vault makes that token harder to steal. It doesn't make it less dangerous. The problem is what happens when the token leaks: everything it can touch is now exposed.

We built Vercel Connect to solve this problem. Now in Public Beta, Vercel Connect replaces the stored token with runtime credential exchange. You register a connector once. When your agent has work to do, your app proves its identity to Vercel Connect and gets back a short-lived credential, scoped to the task.…