Build an Agent with Eve: The Open Agent Framework - Ship 26 NYC Workshop

Vercel
12,684 views July 20, 2026

An agent can literally just be an instructions file. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Andrew and Casey, the tech leads on eve, Vercel's open-source agent framework, build one from scratch on stage: scaffold it on the command line, talk to it in the terminal, deploy it to the cloud, and chat with it in Slack, with the audience tagging it live. CHAPTERS 0:00 Scaffolding an agent: npx init and eve dev 3:24 Channels: from terminal to Slack via Vercel Connect 6:05 Debugging live in the Vercel dashboard 7:25 Connections: OpenAPI data in one prompt 11:36 Tools with approvals: the MongoDB example 17:49 Evals: deterministic checks and LLM as judge 20:38 WebSockets, generative UI, and frameworks 28:10 Architecture: stateless harness on the Workflow SDK 35:34 Q&A: extensibility, pricing, and eve versus the field LINKS Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap Vercel docs → https://vercel.com/docs Start building → https://vercel.com FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #eve #AIAgents #AgentFramework #NextJS

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