Vercel Connect Now Supports Linq — Agents Can Text Over iMessage, RCS, and SMS

What shipped? Vercel Connect now includes a managed connector for Linq, giving your apps and agents a phone number for iMessage, RCS, and SMS.

What changed? Vercel can now create a Linq account and phone number for you, or link an existing one — no credential management needed. The connector works with the @vercel/connect SDK: your deployment's OIDC identity exchanges for a short-lived Linq bearer token, which you pass to the Linq Partner API for any operation.

Linq automatically delivers each message over the best protocol the recipient supports, starting with iMessage, then RCS, then SMS. The same token covers group chats, reactions, rich media, and typing indicators.

The connector also powers the new Linq channel in eve. Run eve add channel/linq, choose Vercel Connect, and eve wires up the connector, phone numbers, and webhook automatically. The channel supports read receipts, typing indicators, and mid-conversation steering — your agent feels like a natural texter.

Why a builder cares? Your agent can now send and receive SMS, RCS, and iMessage with zero phone infrastructure to manage. Any agent built on Vercel — eve, v0, or a custom deployment — gets a native texting channel that degrades gracefully across protocols.