Introducing the new Vercel Agent

What this post added

This post introduces the expansion of Vercel Agent, detailing its new capabilities for investigating production issues, answering project questions, and taking approved actions directly from the dashboard. It highlights the agent's role as an autonomous first responder to production changes, investigating logs, metrics, and deployments to find root causes and propose fixes. The post elaborates on specific use cases such as reviewing pull requests, tracing cost increases, fixing broken builds, and checking deployment readiness. Crucially, it introduces a new security model for agents, emphasizing their distinct identity (`vercel-agent`), read-only default mode, and the 'plan-to-permission' prompt model for granting scoped, short-lived access for specific tasks. The integration of Vercel Sandbox for running generated code in an isolated environment is also detailed. The concept of 'anti-fragile infrastructure' is presented as the foundation for trusting autonomous systems, where immutable deployments and sandboxing contain mistakes.