Vercel Launches Dashboard Builder for Eve Agents

What shipped? Vercel added a visual agent builder to the dashboard that lets you scaffold, deploy, and connect eve agents — pushing the scaffolded code to your repo and spinning up a full project with AI Gateway, chat interfaces, and MCP tool connections.

What changed? Previously, building an eve agent meant writing boilerplate from scratch or copying a starter template. Now the dashboard walks you through model selection (via AI Gateway), chooses between web chat or Slack as the agent's frontend, and wires MCP tool connections — all before writing a line of code. Once configured, Vercel pushes the scaffolded project to your Git repo and deploys it. Also landed alongside: a Chat SDK for Claude Managed Agents integration, giving teams another way to drop agents into existing chat workflows.

Why a builder cares: Eve agents are Vercel's bet on the agent-as-a-service pattern — deploy an agent the same way you deploy a frontend. If you've been hacking together agent infrastructure by hand (model routing ↔ message bus ↔ Slack webhook ↔ MCP client), this collapses the setup from days to minutes. The tight AI Gateway coupling means you also get spend tracking, fallbacks, and traces out of the box.