Front-end development startup Vercel Inc. today announced a score of new products and services aimed at helping developers build and maintain agentic artificial intelligence applications.
The new products include an intelligent monitoring system for AI agents, a Typescript workflow development kit and the addition of autonomous intelligent services in the Vercel Marketplace.
Developers building agentic AI applications are facing an ever-increasing pace to describe, connect and improve their work. As a trend, AI agents have evolved the traditional AI interface from simple question-answer chatbots to fully autonomous systems that can break down complex goals into simple tasks and then execute them with little or no human interaction.
Developing these tools has added new challenges to already complicated work that involves third-party integrations, increased error diagnosis and maintenance time, and the need to juggle different types of infrastructure.
To ease maintenance and make it simpler for developers, Vercel is launching Agent Investigations in public beta mode, an AI-powered incident intelligence platform that automatically monitors, detects issues in applications and conducts root cause analysis. It can even provide suggestions on how to resolve incidents faster.
Given the modern trend towards product development, teams are shipping faster than ever — this increases the chances that an anomaly escapes development teams and makes it into production. When a deployment goes wrong, someone has to investigate; however, at the same time, modern-day applications produce reams of data and logs thousands or millions of lines long.
Vercel said it released Agent Investigations to reduce labor by monitoring for unusual activity and then automatically, or on demand, investigating the anomaly. Once an issue is detected, the Agent uses the same analysis a senior engineer does in seconds, not hours, through correlation analysis, historical context, dependency mapping and an understanding of the application itself. It generates a concise summary that offers clear insights into what went wrong and provides a structured approach for incident response.
Workflow development kit to build intelligent, resilient apps
Vercel’s new Workflow Development Kit is a Typescript programming language framework for building resilient, observable applications and AI agents also available today in public beta.
The company said it introduces a new execution model that provides developers the ability to write code that can survive restarts, deployments and failures. Developers don’t need to manage queues, schedulers or databases.
The key features include declarations for how code logic should persist, providing a familiar developer experience and a framework-defined infrastructure. Vercel said this will mean any locally written code automatically becomes production-ready, durable logic.
Each workflow includes detailed traceability, featuring a comprehensive event log that documents the entire lifecycle, from trigger executions to outcomes. The log tracks every step, trigger, input and output to make it possible to reliably monitor the code in deployment.
Vercel brings in AI agents for developers
With the rise of agentic AI coding capabilities and assistants, Vercel said, it’s bringing AI agents and services into the company’s marketplace.
Agents handle specialized work on behalf of developers, such as producing code, monitoring apps and executing reviews. CodeRabbit and Sourcery collaborate with developers to generate and review code, while Corridor monitors application logic for threats and provides real-time security.
Agents integrate with GitHub through an onboarding workflow to review and act on changes according to their task.
Services provide infrastructure to create, customize and monitor AI agents. Available services include Braintrust to train, test and manage custom agents using evaluation frameworks. There’s also Kubicks to orchestrate multistep automated AI workflows to fix issues before they become problems. Chatbase builds and optimizes customer-facing agents. And Browser User lets AI agents control real browsers to automate web tasks.
Vercel said installing an agent or service takes only a few clicks. Some run directly in Vercel AI Cloud, others connect via the Marketplace. All of them share a unified billing through the user’s account and display monitoring information on the backend dashboard.
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