Introducing eve

Vercel has unveiled eve, an open-source framework that skips the complex infrastructure-building process of agent development and helps developers focus solely on defining the agent's capabilities.

With existing agent development approaches, developers had to write similar boilerplate code from scratch each time. To solve this problem, eve introduces the concept that 'an agent is a directory structure,' allowing model settings, instructions, tools, and skills to be intuitively managed on a per-file basis.

eve provides the following core features out of the box, ready for production environments:

• Durable execution: Built on the Workflow SDK, every step of a conversation is checkpointed, so tasks resume without interruption even after system failures or deployments.
• Sandboxed compute: Code generated by agents runs in an isolated environment so it doesn't affect the application runtime.
• Other features: Includes human-in-the-loop approval processes, subagents, and evals functionality.

Just as Next.js changed the paradigm of web development, this framework aims to maximize productivity in agent development by providing an abstracted structure.