Mini-workers - Ship 26 NYC Workshop

How do you go from user code you've never seen and don't trust to tools an agent can call safely? Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Jonathan Clem (Software Engineer, Notion, previously GitHub Actions) walks through how Notion Workers, the SDK and runtime for extending Notion with custom code, is built on Vercel Sandbox, then builds a mini version of it live. CHAPTERS 0:00 What are Notion Workers? 1:47 Safety lessons from GitHub Actions 4:23 Demo: is this workshop cursed? 7:08 The architecture: Blob, sandboxes, agents 11:37 Self-describing code: extracting tools safely 21:27 Executing untrusted tools in fresh sandboxes 25:09 Production tips: exits, output limits, snapshots 28:31 Q&A: dedup, billing, and Letterboxd LINKS Notion for developers → https://developers.notion.com Vercel Sandbox → https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-sandbox Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap 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 #Notion #NotionWorkers #Sandbox #AIAgents