Vercel has launched eve, an open-source AI agent framework that rethinks how developers build, secure, and ship agent-driven workflows. Eve blends the ease of structured Next.js apps with the operational DNA of Vercel’s platform — and it is already running over 100 internal agents, now responsible for almost a third of the company’s deployments. If you want to ship agents that can scale from your laptop to production, sandboxes and all, without rethinking how your team writes or deploys software, eve isn’t just promising — it works.
What is Vercel eve and why is it called "Next.js for AI agents"?
Vercel eve is an open-source AI agent framework, released at the Ship conference in London, with the stated ambition of giving developers a reliable, scalable platform for agent development and deployment. Its defining trait is the way it borrows patterns from Next.js: each agent lives in a self-contained directory that holds three core pieces:
a model file,
a Markdown system prompt,
