# Vercel — Introducing Vercel Connect

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-17T04:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-connect
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20699-introducing-vercel-connect
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel introduced Vercel Connect, a service that replaces long-lived provider tokens with runtime credential exchange for agents. Connectors are registered once and attached to projects and environments, providing short-lived, scoped tokens via OIDC identity verification. The service is in Public Beta as of August 25, 2026.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-connect:

> 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.

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