--- title: eve description: eve is a filesystem-first framework for durable backend agents on Vercel. url: "https://vercel.com/kb/eve" published: 2026-06-17 last_updated: 2026-09-03 install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --- # eve eve is a filesystem-first framework for durable backend agents on Vercel. ## Ship your own software factory with eve - [Build a software factory with eve](/kb/guide/eve-software-factory): Foreman, a software factory built on eve. It turns GitHub and Linear work items into reviewed draft pull requests through four agent stations, triaging issues and fixing its own red CI along the way. - [Give your software factory a browser](/kb/guide/software-factory-browser): Add a KERNEL cloud browser to the eve software factory template so Foreman can reproduce flow bugs, sign in through managed auth, and verify fixes on preview deployments in attended sessions. - [Manage Vercel projects with a software factory](/kb/guide/software-factory-vercel-mcp): Add Vercel's hosted MCP to the eve software factory template so Foreman can read build logs, runtime errors, and deployment history for the app your target repository deploys, brokered at app scope through Vercel Connect. ## Getting started with eve - [Build a software factory with eve](/kb/guide/eve-software-factory): Foreman, a software factory built on eve. It turns GitHub and Linear work items into reviewed draft pull requests through four agent stations, triaging issues and fixing its own red CI along the way. - [Build an incident response sre agent with eve](/kb/guide/eve-incident-sre-agent): sre is an incident response agent for Slack. It investigates production issues using a hypothesis-driven approach and returns verifiable evidence from connected sources. - [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. - [Run a marketing team from Slack with eve](/kb/guide/marketing-team-eve): Team of five marketing agents built on eve. The lead routes work to specialists that write long-form into Notion, queue social posts in Typefully, run email in Resend, and audit for SEO, with approvals for anything irreversible. - [How to build a GitHub agent with eve and GitHub Tools](/kb/guide/github-agent-eve): Build a GitHub agent with eve, GitHub Tools, and Vercel Connect. Register AI-callable GitHub tools, gate writes behind durable approval, and reply to @mentions in issues and pull requests with no stored GitHub credentials. - [How to build a browser agent that works behind a login](/kb/guide/build-a-browser-agent): Build a browser agent with eve, Vercel Connect, and KERNEL managed auth that signs a user in through a human-in-the-loop handoff and completes tasks behind a login without exposing credentials. - [Give your eve agent an email inbox with Resend](/kb/guide/eve-agent-with-resend): Connect an eve agent to email using the Chat SDK channel and the Resend adapter. Handle inbound email, threaded replies, attachments, and proactive sends. - [Manage your Sanity project from Slack with eve](/kb/guide/eve-sanity-copilot): A Slack-based Sanity copilot built on eve. It queries and edits content with GROQ, shapes schemas, manages releases, and drafts long-form pieces into Notion. - [Ship social posts from Slack with eve and Typefully](/kb/guide/eve-typefully-social-media-agent): A Slack-based social media agent built on eve. It drafts posts and threads for X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon through Typefully, manages the publishing queue, reads analytics, and drafts long-form pieces into Notion. ## How to build with eve - [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 add skills to your eve agent](/kb/guide/how-to-add-eve-skills): Add skills to an eve agent by creating a file under agent/skills/ or installing a published skill with the npx skills add CLI. - [How to add tools to your eve agent](/kb/guide/how-to-add-eve-tools): Add tools to an eve agent by creating a TypeScript file under agent/tools/ with defineTool, and gate sensitive ones on human approval with approval. ## Build with a eve Template - [Data analyst](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-data-analyst): Slack-based data analyst built on eve that answers questions about your business from a Postgres database. - [Contentful assistant](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-contentful-agent): Slack-based Contentful assistant with Vercel Drives providing a searchable copy of your Contentful content. - [Marketing team](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-marketing-team): A team of marketing agents: a lead routes work to specialists for positioning, long-form content, social, SEO, and email, publishing through Notion, Typefully, and Resend. - [Software factory](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-software-factory): Software factory built on eve: AI agents work each stage of the development loop, and people make the judgment calls. - [Incident response](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-incident-response-agent): sre investigates production issues using a hypothesis-driven approach and outputs verifiable evidence from sources. - [GitHub maintainer](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-github-maintainer): Kody, a personal GitHub maintainer agent that emails you a weekly digest of open issues, acts on your email replies, summarizes new pull requests, answers @mentions, and works delegated Linear issues. - [Personal agent](https://vercel.com/templates/nuxt/eve-personal-agent): A durable AI assistant with long-term memory. Chat on the web or Slack, query Linear, and pick up where you left off. - [Vercel Drives Starter](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-vercel-drives-starter): An eve agent that reads and saves your team's files on a Vercel Drive. - [Memory](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-memory-agent): A Slack agent built on eve that remembers what your team tells it. Personal preferences and channel conventions are stored separately in Vercel Blob and recalled before every reply. - [TanStack Start agent](https://vercel.com/templates/eve/eve-tanstack-agent): Web chat built on eve and TanStack Start, where the agent can respond with generative UI like tables and dashboards. ## All eve 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. - [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 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. - [Manage Vercel projects with a software factory](/kb/guide/software-factory-vercel-mcp): Add Vercel's hosted MCP to the eve software factory template so Foreman can read build logs, runtime errors, and deployment history for the app your target repository deploys, brokered at app scope through Vercel Connect. - [Give your software factory a browser](/kb/guide/software-factory-browser): Add a KERNEL cloud browser to the eve software factory template so Foreman can reproduce flow bugs, sign in through managed auth, and verify fixes on preview deployments in attended sessions. - [Build a software factory with eve](/kb/guide/eve-software-factory): Foreman, a software factory built on eve. It turns GitHub and Linear work items into reviewed draft pull requests through four agent stations, triaging issues and fixing its own red CI along the way. - [Build an incident response sre agent with eve](/kb/guide/eve-incident-sre-agent): sre is an incident response agent for Slack. It investigates production issues using a hypothesis-driven approach and returns verifiable evidence from connected sources. - [How to build a browser agent that works behind a login](/kb/guide/build-a-browser-agent): Build a browser agent with eve, Vercel Connect, and KERNEL managed auth that signs a user in through a human-in-the-loop handoff and completes tasks behind a login without exposing credentials. - [Run a marketing team from Slack with eve](/kb/guide/marketing-team-eve): Team of five marketing agents built on eve. The lead routes work to specialists that write long-form into Notion, queue social posts in Typefully, run email in Resend, and audit for SEO, with approvals for anything irreversible. - [How to protect your eve agent from prompt injection with Arcjet](/kb/guide/eve-agent-prompt-injection): Detect and block prompt injection in your eve agent with Arcjet Guards. Screen tool results and incoming Slack messages before they reach your AI model. - [Ship social posts from Slack with eve and Typefully](/kb/guide/eve-typefully-social-media-agent): A Slack-based social media agent built on eve. It drafts posts and threads for X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon through Typefully, manages the publishing queue, reads analytics, and drafts long-form pieces into Notion. - [Manage your Sanity project from Slack with eve](/kb/guide/eve-sanity-copilot): A Slack-based Sanity copilot built on eve. It queries and edits content with GROQ, shapes schemas, manages releases, and drafts long-form pieces into Notion. - [How to build a GitHub agent with eve and GitHub Tools](/kb/guide/github-agent-eve): Build a GitHub agent with eve, GitHub Tools, and Vercel Connect. Register AI-callable GitHub tools, gate writes behind durable approval, and reply to @mentions in issues and pull requests with no stored GitHub credentials. - [Give your eve agent an email inbox with Resend](/kb/guide/eve-agent-with-resend): Connect an eve agent to email using the Chat SDK channel and the Resend adapter. Handle inbound email, threaded replies, attachments, and proactive sends. - [Using Chat SDK and eve together](/kb/guide/chat-sdk-and-eve): Understand how eve and Chat SDK divide responsibilities, when to use eve's first-class channels versus the Chat SDK channel, and how to bridge any Chat SDK adapter into an eve agent - [Draft documentation fixes from reader feedback with Sanity and eve](/kb/guide/sanity-eve-agent): Build an autonomous agent that drafts fixes in Sanity, stages them for human review, and calls the model through AI Gateway. - [How to add tools to your eve agent](/kb/guide/how-to-add-eve-tools): Add tools to an eve agent by creating a TypeScript file under agent/tools/ with defineTool, and gate sensitive ones on human approval with approval. - [How to use subagents with eve](/kb/guide/how-to-use-eve-subagents): Learn how to use subagents with eve, including the built-in agent tool, declared specialist subagents, the isolation boundary, when to split work into a subagent, and how to verify delegation. - [How to add skills to your eve agent](/kb/guide/how-to-add-eve-skills): Add skills to an eve agent by creating a file under agent/skills/ or installing a published skill with the npx skills add CLI. - [Build your first Slack agent with eve](/kb/guide/eve-slack-agent-starter): Deploy the eve Slack agent template: a starter Slack bot built on the eve framework with an example tool and skill. - [Draft content in your voice from Slack with eve](/kb/guide/eve-content-agent): Deploy the eve content agent template, a Slack bot that drafts blog posts, LinkedIn posts, release notes, and newsletters in your house voice from Notion, using Vercel Connect, Vercel Blob, and AI Gateway. ## Explore other topics in the Vercel Knowledge Base - [Vercel Sandbox](/kb/vercel-sandbox): The compute primitive designed to safely run untrusted or user-generated code on Vercel. - [Infrastructure and Compute](/kb/infrastructure-and-compute): Scale and deliver applications efficiently across regions using Vercel's Fluid Compute and CDN. - [Migrations](/kb/migrations): Learn how to migrate your application or agent to Vercel's agentic infrastructure. - [Backends](/kb/backends): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases.