Give Your Agent a Computer — Nico Albanese, Vercel

Описание: The key insight from Vercel's internal agent work: giving an agent a file system didn't just add storage, it changed how the agent behaved. It started following through on long tasks, staying on track, and building on its own prior work. That's what this workshop builds toward.

‪@nicoalbanese10‬ walks through AI SDK v6 from scratch: a tool loop agent, provider-executed web search, end-to-end type safety, and Vercel's new persistent named sandboxes. The agent gets a bash tool, a memories.md file it reads and writes, and instructions that make it generate Python scripts for repeatable tasks and store them for later. By the end, it's an agent that accumulates tools and context across sessions without any manual memory management.

Speaker info:
https://x.com/nicoalbanese10
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https://github.com/nicoalbanese

Timestamps:
0:00 Setup and project initialization
7:31 Installing dependencies
9:02 Introduction to AI SDK v6 and tool loop agents
11:05 Defining the agent in agent.ts
13:40 Building the route handler for the chat API
15:26 Creating the frontend UI with useChat
16:53 Modifying agent instructions
18:40 Adding web search tool (provider-executed tools)
23:55 Adding UI components for tool usage
27:43 The importance of persistent sandboxes (file systems for agents)
33:45 Managing context and message history across steps
45:11 Initializing persistent sandboxes
47:20 Defining custom call options and context
51:10 Creating the bash execution tool
55:05 Integrating the bash tool into the agent
57:15 Adding persistent memory (memories.md)
1:03:44 Making agents learn by generating Python scripts
1:05:58 Reviewing the full agent system and sub-agents