How we built AEO tracking for coding agents

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This post details the implementation of an AI Engine Optimization (AEO) system to track how coding agents discover, interpret, and reference Vercel's web content. It introduces Vercel Sandbox for isolated execution of agent CLIs, including installation, credential injection, and transcript capture. It also highlights the use of Vercel AI Gateway for routing LLM calls and centralizing management. A four-stage normalization layer is described to handle diverse agent transcript formats, including parsing tool names and flattening message structures into a unified event type.