Vercel lets you scaffold, deploy and chat with an agent from the dashboard

A 28 August 2026 changelog entry: create an agent from the Vercel dashboard and get a deployed agent you can talk to straight away. The flow scaffolds the agent, creates a private Git repository and deploys it as a new Vercel project; you define the agent’s instructions, pick a model through AI Gateway, attach a web-chat or Slack surface, and wire in tools from services such as Linear and Notion or from your own MCP servers. Same-week entries added Cursor to the AI SDK harness layer and Claude Managed Agents to the Chat SDK.

What it means The distance from "we should try an agent for this" to a deployed, Slack-reachable one that calls your own MCP servers is now a dashboard form.