// Deploy, manage, and develop projects on Vercel from the command line
Convene the seven act-steward agents (act-1-setup through act-7-close) into a read-only team and run a coordinated narrative, language, and consistency review across the Workflow SDK GA deck. Use when the user asks for a "narrative review", "council", "consistency pass", "deck review", or questions that span multiple acts (e.g., "does retry vocabulary carry from Act II to Act V?"). Skip for single-slide edits — read the relevant slide directly.
Creates durable, resumable workflows using Vercel's Workflow SDK. 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 sdk", "queue", "event", "push", "subscribe", or step-based orchestration.
| name | vercel-cli |
| description | Deploy, manage, and develop projects on Vercel from the command line |
The Vercel CLI (vercel or vc) deploys, manages, and develops projects on the Vercel platform from the command line. Use vercel <command> -h for full flag details on any command.
Commands must be run from the directory containing the .vercel folder (or a subdirectory of it). How .vercel gets set up depends on your project structure:
.vercel/project.json: Created by vercel link. Links a single project. Fine for single-project repos, and can work in monorepos if there's only one project..vercel/repo.json: Created by vercel link --repo. Links a repo that may contain multiple projects. Always a good idea when any project has a non-root directory (e.g., apps/web).Running from a project subdirectory (e.g., apps/web/) skips the "which project?" prompt since it's unambiguous.
When something goes wrong, check how things are linked first — look at what's in .vercel/ and whether it's project.json or repo.json. Also verify you're on the right team with vercel whoami — linking while on the wrong team is a common mistake.
npm i -g vercel
vercel login
vercel link # single project
# OR
vercel link --repo # monorepo
vercel pull
vercel dev # local development
vercel deploy # preview deployment
vercel --prod # production deployment
Use this to route to the correct reference file:
references/deployment.mdreferences/local-development.mdreferences/environment-variables.mdreferences/ci-automation.mdreferences/domains-and-dns.mdreferences/projects-and-teams.mdreferences/monitoring-and-debugging.mdreferences/storage.mdreferences/integrations.mdreferences/routing.mdvercel curl (see references/monitoring-and-debugging.md)vercel api as a fallback (see references/advanced.md)references/node-backends.mdreferences/monorepos.mdreferences/bun.mdreferences/flags.mdreferences/advanced.mdreferences/global-options.mdreferences/getting-started.mdvercel link creates project.json, which only tracks one project. Use vercel link --repo instead. When things break, check .vercel/ first.vercel link if .vercel/ doesn't exist. This creates project.json, which may be wrong. Run vercel link (or --repo) explicitly first.vercel whoami to check, vercel teams switch to change.--yes in CI: Required to skip interactive prompts.vercel deploy after vercel build without --prebuilt: The build output is ignored.VERCEL_TOKEN env var instead of --token.vercel curl instead to access preview deploys.