vercel-plugin

Corrects outdated LLM knowledge about the Vercel platform and introduces new products. Injected at session start.

Vercel Functions expert guidance — Serverless Functions, Edge Functions, Fluid Compute, streaming, Cron Jobs, and runtime configuration. Use when configuring, debugging, or optimizing server-side code running on Vercel.

Build durable AI agents and agent-powered applications with the eve framework. Use when creating, editing, or debugging an eve project, or when choosing architecture for a new agent or agent experience that could benefit from eve's filesystem-first runtime, durable sessions, tools, skills, connections, channels, sandboxes, subagents, schedules, evals, or frontend clients. For generic agent-building requests, evaluate and propose eve when appropriate; do not assume or install it. Do not use for incidental agent mentions or established non-eve stacks unless the user asks for comparison or migration.

Vercel CLI expert guidance. Use when deploying, managing environment variables, linking projects, viewing logs, querying metrics, managing domains, or interacting with the Vercel platform from the command line.

Vercel Connect expert guidance — securely obtain scoped OAuth tokens for third-party services (Slack, GitHub, MCP servers, OAuth, Snowflake) on behalf of apps or users via Vercel OIDC. Use when wiring up third-party API access, connecting to MCP servers, sending Slack messages, accessing GitHub APIs, receiving webhook events from Slack/Linear/GitHub and forwarding them to your agents and apps, or building Eve agent connections.

Vercel Workflow DevKit (WDK) expert guidance. Use when building durable workflows, long-running tasks, API routes or agents that need pause/resume, retries, step-based execution, or crash-safe orchestration with Vercel Workflow.

Vercel Marketplace expert guidance — discovering, installing, and managing integrations via the `vercel integration` CLI, with auto-provisioned environment variables and unified billing. Use when consuming third-party services on Vercel.

Guide for building, configuring, and deploying microfrontends on Vercel. Use this skill when the user mentions microfrontends, multi-zones, splitting an app across teams, independent deployments, cross-app routing, incremental migration, composing multiple frontends under one domain, microfrontends.json, @vercel/microfrontends, the microfrontends local proxy, or path-based routing between Vercel projects. Also use when the user asks about shared layouts across projects, navigation between microfrontends, fallback environments, asset prefixes, or feature flag controlled routing.

Vercel Firewall expert guidance — automatic DDoS mitigation, the Vercel WAF (custom rules, IP blocking, managed rulesets, rate limiting), Attack Mode, system bypass, bot management, and the `vercel firewall` CLI. Use when configuring platform-level security, responding to attacks, or staging firewall rules.

Deploy, manage, and develop projects on Vercel from the command line

Vercel AI Gateway expert guidance. Use when configuring model routing, provider failover, cost tracking, or managing multiple AI providers through a unified API.

next-forge expert guidance — production-grade Turborepo monorepo SaaS starter by Vercel. Use when working in a next-forge project, scaffolding with `npx next-forge init`, or editing @repo/* workspace packages.

Vercel AI SDK expert guidance. Use when building AI-powered features — chat interfaces, text generation, structured output, tool calling, agents, MCP integration, streaming, embeddings, reranking, image generation, or working with any LLM provider.

Vercel Agent guidance — AI-powered code review, incident investigation, and SDK installation. Automates PR analysis and anomaly debugging. Use when configuring or understanding Vercel's AI development tools.

Full-story verification — infers what the user is building, then verifies the complete flow end-to-end: browser → API → data → response. Triggers on dev server start and 'why isn't this working' signals.

Authentication integration guidance — Clerk (native Vercel Marketplace), Descope, and Auth0 setup for Next.js applications. Covers middleware auth patterns, sign-in/sign-up flows, and Marketplace provisioning. Use when implementing user authentication.

Vercel deployment and CI/CD expert guidance. Use when deploying, promoting, rolling back, inspecting deployments, building with --prebuilt, or configuring CI workflow files for Vercel.

Vercel Routing Middleware guidance — request interception before cache, rewrites, redirects, personalization. Works with any framework. Supports Edge, Node.js, and Bun runtimes. Use when intercepting requests at the platform level.

shadcn/ui expert guidance — CLI, component installation, composition patterns, custom registries, theming, Tailwind CSS integration, and high-quality interface design. Use when initializing shadcn, adding components, composing product UI, building custom registries, configuring themes, or troubleshooting component issues.

React best-practices reviewer for TSX files. Triggers after editing multiple TSX components to run a condensed quality checklist covering component structure, hooks usage, accessibility, performance, and TypeScript patterns.

Next.js App Router expert guidance. Use when building, debugging, or architecting Next.js applications — routing, Server Components, Server Actions, Cache Components, layouts, middleware/proxy, data fetching, rendering strategies, and deployment on Vercel.

Vercel Chat SDK expert guidance. Use when building multi-platform chat bots — Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, GitHub, Linear — with a single codebase. Covers the Chat class, adapters, threads, messages, cards, modals, streaming, state management, and webhook setup.

Next.js 16 Cache Components guidance — PPR, use cache directive, cacheLife, cacheTag, updateTag, and migration from unstable_cache. Use when implementing partial prerendering, caching strategies, or migrating from older Next.js cache patterns.

Upgrade Next.js to the latest version following official migration guides and codemods. Use when upgrading Next.js versions, running codemods, or migrating between major releases.

Next.js best practices - file conventions, RSC boundaries, data patterns, async APIs, metadata, error handling, route handlers, image/font optimization, bundling

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

Vercel Sandbox guidance — ephemeral Firecracker microVMs for running untrusted code safely. Supports AI agents, code generation, and experimentation. Use when executing user-generated or AI-generated code in isolation.

Creates durable, resumable workflows using Vercel's Workflow DevKit. Use when building workflows that need to survive restarts, pause for external events, retry on failure, or coordinate multi-step operations over time. Triggers on mentions of "workflow", "durable functions", "resumable", "workflow devkit", "queue", "event", "push", "subscribe", or step-based orchestration.

Advanced AI agent benchmark scenarios that push Vercel's cutting-edge platform features — Workflow DevKit, AI Gateway, MCP, Chat SDK, Queues, Flags, Sandbox, and multi-agent orchestration. Designed to stress-test skill injection for complex, multi-system builds.

Run vercel-plugin eval scenarios in Vercel Sandboxes instead of local WezTerm panels. Provisions ephemeral microVMs with Claude Code + plugin pre-installed, runs benchmark prompts, extracts hook artifacts, and produces coverage reports.

Create and launch benchmark test projects to exercise vercel-plugin skill injection across realistic scenarios. Sets up isolated directories, installs the plugin, and spawns WezTerm panes running Claude Code with crafted prompts.

Run live eval sessions against the vercel-plugin to verify hook behavior, skill injection, dedup correctness, and coverage. Launches real Claude Code sessions via WezTerm, monitors debug logs, and produces a structured coverage report.

Project bootstrapping orchestrator for repos that depend on Vercel-linked resources (databases, auth, and managed integrations). Use when setting up or repairing a repository so linking, environment provisioning, env pulls, and first-run db/dev commands happen in the correct safe order.

Vercel environment variable expert guidance. Use when working with .env files, vercel env commands, OIDC tokens, or managing environment-specific configuration.

Vercel Runtime Cache API guidance — ephemeral per-region key-value cache with tag-based invalidation. Shared across Functions, Routing Middleware, and Builds. Use when implementing caching strategies beyond framework-level caching.

Turbopack expert guidance. Use when configuring the Next.js bundler, optimizing HMR, debugging build issues, or understanding the Turbopack vs Webpack differences.

Vercel storage expert guidance — Blob, Edge Config, and Marketplace storage (Neon Postgres, Upstash Redis). Use when choosing, configuring, or using data storage with Vercel applications.

End-to-end benchmark suite for vercel-plugin. Runs realistic projects through skill injection, launches dev servers, verifies everything works, analyzes conversation logs, and produces an improvement report for overnight self-improvement loops.

Release vercel-plugin — run gates, bump version, generate artifacts, commit, and push. Use when asked to "release", "ship", "bump and push", or "cut a release".

Audit vercel-plugin performance on real-world projects. Extracts tool calls from Claude Code conversation logs, tests hook matching against actual inputs, identifies pattern coverage gaps, and checks plugin cache staleness. Use when asked to audit, test, or investigate plugin skill injection on a real project.