Vercel Connect launches to replace long-lived API tokens with scoped, short-lived access for agents and apps
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Hedi Zandi
Summary
Vercel Connect is a new service that allows apps and agents to access third-party services like Slack and GitHub without storing long-lived, dangerous provider tokens in environment variables. Instead, users register a connector once and request scoped, short-lived tokens at runtime. The article argues that current approaches using long-lived tokens shared across users are insecure, and that a vault doesn't solve the fundamental risk. Vercel Connect is now in Public Beta.
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bskyVercel Connect launches to replace long-lived API tokens with scoped, short-lived access for agents and appsvercel.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledGiving your agents access to your tools, data, and services is what makes them useful.
Today, agent access is usually granted through long-lived provider tokens stored in your environment variables, provisioned for everything your agent might need.
These tokens are shared across every user, never expire, and give your agent full reach across every task, no matter how small the job.
A vault makes that token harder to steal. It doesn't make it less dangerous.
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