Build an Agent with Eve: The Open Agent Framework
summary
Eve is an open-source agent framework from Vercel that builds durable, long-running agents with one-folder conventions: start with npx eve init and a single instructions.md persona file, add skills, tools, channels, subagents, schedules and heartbeats. It uses Vercel Fluid Compute for cheap asynchronous execution and sandboxed code runs, connects to GitHub/Stripe/Notion/Telegram/Slack, shows per-run observability and token/waterfall traces, and ships working examples (YouTube summarizer, deployed on Vercel) used at scale (over 1,000 agents in Slack).
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40Meet Eve, the open agent framework
- 1:42Why traditional infrastructure is not built for agents
- 2:17Vercel infrastructure and Fluid Compute
- 4:47Eve as a framework for agents
- 5:22Create an agent with npx eve init
- 5:54Configuring the agent persona
- 6:17Models, tools, and skills
- 7:33Nondeterminism, evals, and sandboxing
- 9:00Channels
- 9:43Connections, subagents, and schedules
- 11:03Agentic developer experience
- 12:25Live demo
- 14:49Adding agentic features to Next.js
- 15:48A YouTube agent example
- 16:46Deployment and run observability
- 20:22Framework recap
- 21:26Deployment options and closing
