Vercel Connect: A Secure External Service Access Solution for Agents

Vercel Connect is a solution that helps apps and AI agents securely access external services like Slack, GitHub, and Salesforce. Instead of storing long-lived secrets in environment variables, you can request scoped, short-lived tokens at runtime only when they're needed.

The key features are as follows:

• Scoped tokens: Grants only the minimum permissions needed for a task, such as read-only access to a specific repository, enhancing security. It can also be configured to inherit the permissions of a specific user rather than the app itself.
• Isolation and revocation: Separates connectors by development, preview, and production environments to prevent security incidents from spreading across environments, and all issued tokens can be instantly revoked with a single command.
• Triggers: Validates webhooks from services like Slack, GitHub, and Linear and delivers them to the designated project, enabling agents that respond to external events.

Vercel Connect provides dedicated connectors for Slack, GitHub, Notion, Salesforce, and more, and also supports adapters compatible with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and the AI SDK, allowing integration with a variety of agent tools.