Introducing Vercel Connect (opens in new tab)

**Published:** June 17, 2026 | **Authors:** Hedi Zandi, Dima Voytenko, Kevin Corbett --- Giving your agents access to your tools, data, and services is what makes them useful. As agents perform deeper work across systems, authenticating and authorizing that access becomes central to your application architecture. Today, agent access is usually granted through long-lived provider tokens stored in your environment variables, provisioned for everything your agent might need. These tokens are ...