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Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
Vercel introduced an open source agent framework called eve at its Ship event in London this week, along with other new features including Passport, an attempt to put employee apps created with AI under enterprise control.Agents are dominating the AI conversation currently, and in particular custom agents. Agent frameworks that simplify coding already exist, though eve has a few notable characteristics.The coding languages are TypeScript and Markdown, and an agent is a directory with files that define the instructions and skills, the model provider, the tools, the authentication, the channels, and the schedule. Agents are sandboxed on isolated VMs by default. The framework also includes a simple testing tool that exercises the agent and evaluates the result. Code is on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.
There are plenty of existing agent frameworks, but Vercel CTO Malte Ubl told us that with eve, simplicity is a feature, with users able to take a "fill in the blanks" approach.
"The life cycle of the agent is completely orchestrated by the framework, and as a developer or builder you have to put things in the right places, but then everything magically works," Ubl said. "It's a system where you don't have to understand every little bit about what sandboxes are and how to compact context windows… All these things are quite complex; you don't have to understand any of it."Agents built with eve deploy to Vercel by default, using the same command that works for web applications: vercel deploy. That said, the company says it is not tied to its platform. "We are 100 percent committed to making it work everywhere," Ubl told us, though an early user has already raised an issue about it requiring a Vercel login even when set to use a different model provider; it is early days and this may be a bug. Providers for LLMs and sandboxes are configurable. An eve project also runs locally with: npx eve dev.
