--- title: "Vercel Knowledge Base: Guides, Videos, and Tutorials" description: In-depth guides, videos, and tutorials for building and deploying with Vercel. Covers AI agents, frameworks, SDKs, backend, security, and more. url: "https://vercel.com/kb" published: 2026-06-18 last_updated: 2026-09-22 install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --- # Knowledge Base In-depth guides, tutorials, and explainers for best practices with Vercel. ## Featured Topics - [Agent Stack](/kb/agent-stack): The building blocks for agentic applications on Vercel. - [Backend](/kb/backend): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases. - [Security](/kb/security): Secure your applications with Vercel's Firewall, Bot Management, deployment protection, and more. ## Featured Guides - [How to classify, route, and score with Jev and AI SDK](/kb/guide/typesafe-jev-and-ai-sdk): Use Jev from TypeSafe AI with AI SDK's experimental \`evaluate\` API to classify, route, score, and verify inside your application. Jev returns typed choices, scores, and boolean probabilities through AI Gateway. - [How to automatically approve tool calls in eve with Jev](/kb/guide/auto-approve-tool-calls-eve-jev): Use Jev to review tool calls in eve, allow routine actions, and request human approval when needed. Configure the policy and test its failure paths. - [Route form submissions with Jev and AI SDK](/kb/guide/jev-ai-sdk-form-router): Route form submissions to the right team with the Jev x AI SDK Form Router template. Jev routes clear cases and a fallback model decides uncertain ones. - [Moderate product reviews with Jev, TanStack AI, and AI Gateway](/kb/guide/moderate-product-reviews-jev-tanstack-ai): Moderate product reviews for an e-commerce storefront with Jev from TypeSafe AI and TanStack AI's \`decide()\` function. The \`@tanstack/ai-vercel-gateway\` adapter returns typed choices, scores, and boolean probabilities through Vercel AI Gateway, so your code can publish clear reviews and hold flagged ones. - [Build a v0-style app builder with OpenAI Agents API and Vercel Sandbox](/kb/guide/v0-clone-openai-agents-vercel-sandbox): Build a chat-to-app workspace with live Next.js previews, follow-up edits, and saved projects using the OpenAI Agents API preview, Vercel Sandbox, and Queues. - [Using TanStack Intent to ship and consume agent skills](/kb/guide/tanstack-intent): TanStack Intent is a CLI for shipping and consuming agent skills, markdown files that teach AI coding agents how to use a library correctly. This guide covers installing Intent, loading skills from your dependencies, and shipping skills as a maintainer. ## Latest Guides - [How to build a custom eve memory provider](/kb/guide/build-a-custom-eve-memory-provider): Implement the eve memory provider contract with defineMemoryProvider() to back an eve memory slot with your own database, vector index, or memory service. - [Identify users and control access in Next.js with Vercel Passport](/kb/guide/vercel-passport-nextjs): Use \`getIdentity()\` to read a visitor’s verified Vercel Passport identity in Next.js, then personalize pages, restrict routes by group, and log actions. - [Personalize and lock down a Nuxt app with Vercel Passport](/kb/guide/vercel-passport-nuxt): Use \`getIdentity()\` to read a visitor’s verified Vercel Passport identity in Nuxt server routes, then personalize pages, restrict routes by group, and log actions. - [Build user-aware TanStack Start apps with Vercel Passport](/kb/guide/vercel-passport-tanstack-start): Use \`getIdentity()\` to read a visitor’s verified Vercel Passport identity in TanStack Start server functions, then personalize internal apps, gate routes by group, and log actions. - [How to use Vercel Drives with an eve agent](/kb/guide/vercel-drives-eve-agent): Mount Vercel Drives in an eve agent's sandbox to give each user a persistent workspace and share read-only reference data across sessions. - [How to choose an eve memory provider](/kb/guide/choose-an-eve-memory-provider): Compare File memory, Supermemory, Upstash AgentKit, and Kybernesis Arcana by recall, capture, and storage to choose an eve memory provider for your agent. - [How to build a Shopify MCP agent on Vercel](/kb/guide/build-a-shopify-mcp-agent-on-vercel): Build a Shopify MCP agent on Vercel with AI SDK 7. Connect to Shopify's UCP MCP servers, update carts safely, and hand the buyer a checkout URL. - [How to architect multi-location QSR menus on Vercel](/kb/guide/multi-location-qsr-menus): Multi-location QSR menus vary by price, hours, and availability. Learn how to model them on Vercel with ISR, Global Config, and crawlable location pages. - [Rendering strategies for retail: ISR vs SSR vs static](/kb/guide/ssr-vs-ssg-vs-isr-vs-csr-for-ecommerce): Choose between SSR, SSG, ISR, and CSR for each ecommerce surface. Compare rendering modes on freshness, personalization, SEO, and cost. - [A/B testing on ecommerce storefronts without hurting Core Web Vitals](/kb/guide/ecommerce-ab-testing-core-web-vitals): Client-side A/B tools can worsen LCP and CLS on the pages you're testing. Run ecommerce A/B tests at the edge with Routing Middleware and Vercel Flags. ## All Topics Explore guides by topic across the Knowledge Base. - [Agent Stack](/kb/agent-stack): The building blocks for agentic applications on Vercel. - [AI](/kb/ai): Build AI-powered applications using Vercel's agentic infrastructure. - [AI Gateway](/kb/ai-gateway): The AI Gateway for developers. Route to hundreds of AI models through a centralized interface. - [AI SDK](/kb/ai-sdk): The unified TypeScript SDK for building AI apps with modern streaming, fallbacks, and multi-model support. - [Backend](/kb/backend): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases. - [Build and Deploy](/kb/build-and-deploy): Build, preview, and deploy with Vercel's CI/CD pipeline, git integration, rollbacks, and more. - [CDN](/kb/cdn): Vercel's CDN is a globally distributed platform that stores content near your customers and runs compute in regions close to your data, reducing latency and improving end-user performance. - [Chat SDK](/kb/chat-sdk): The unified TypeScript SDK for building chat bots across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, and more. Write your bot logic once, deploy everywhere. - [Comparisons](/kb/comparisons): Side-by-side comparisons of Vercel and alternative platforms, frameworks, and tools. Weigh features, pricing, and performance to choose the right fit for your project. - [Docker](/kb/docker): Learn how to run Docker on Vercel. Deploy any containerized HTTP server with a Dockerfile.vercel file. No registry or cluster setup needed. - [Enterprise Apps and Agents](/kb/enterprise): Explore how enterprises develop, deploy, and govern internal apps and AI agents. Learn about citizen development, shadow AI, access controls, and agent auditing, with practical guidance for turning employee-built tools into supported business applications. - [eve](/kb/eve): eve is a filesystem-first framework for durable backend agents on Vercel. - [FDE Field Notes](/kb/fde): Insights from our work with customers. Explore the patterns, diagnostics, and recommendations Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineers use in production. - [Infrastructure and Compute](/kb/infrastructure-and-compute): Scale and deliver applications efficiently across regions using Vercel's Fluid Compute and CDN. - [Integrations](/kb/integrations): Integrate third-party tools across observability, AI, storage, and more. - [Jev from TypeSafe AI](/kb/jev-from-typesafe-ai): Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model for fast, typed decisions. It evaluates supplied context and returns choices, scores, and probabilities that applications can use to classify requests, route tasks, and assess proposed actions without generating prose. - [Migrations](/kb/migrations): Learn how to migrate your application or agent to Vercel's agentic infrastructure. - [Observability](/kb/observability): Monitor and analyze performance with Speed Insights, Web Analytics, Logs, and more. - [Retail](/kb/retail): Build resilient storefronts and e-commerce experiences that hold up when traffic spikes. - [Security](/kb/security): Secure your applications with Vercel's Firewall, Bot Management, deployment protection, and more. - [Software Factory](/kb/software-factory): Software factories put an agent on every stage of your development loop: triage, planning against a live repo checkout, implementation verified with your own checks, and independent review. Work items become draft PRs while you keep the judgment calls. - [TanStack](/kb/tanstack): Everything you need to build and deploy TanStack apps on Vercel. Find migration and framework guides for TanStack Start, plus resources for the wider TanStack ecosystem. - [Vercel Blob](/kb/vercel-blob): Vercel Blob is a scalable, cost-effective object storage service with private and public access modes for files of any size. - [Vercel Connect](/kb/vercel-connect): Securely connect agents to the tools, data, and services they need to take action. - [Vercel Container Registry](/kb/vercel-container-registry): Vercel Container Registry (VCR) is a project-scoped registry for OCI container images. Use VCR to store, push, and pull Docker images on Vercel. - [Vercel Drop](/kb/vercel-drop): Vercel Drop lets you deploy a file, folder, or .zip by dragging it into your browser, with no Git, Vercel CLI, or local setup. - [Vercel Sandbox](/kb/vercel-sandbox): The compute primitive designed to safely run untrusted or user-generated code on Vercel. - [Vercel Services](/kb/vercel-services): Vercel Services let you deploy multiple backends and frontends within a single Vercel project. - [Webflow Cloud](/kb/webflow-cloud): Webflow Cloud is a hosting platform for full-stack apps built with Next.js or Astro. Deploy your app to its own domain or mount it into an existing Webflow site, with built-in storage and edge execution on Cloudflare Workers. - [Workflow SDK](/kb/workflow-sdk): 'use workflow' brings durability, reliability, and observability to async JavaScript. Build apps and AI Agents that can suspend, resume, and maintain state with ease.