Vercel Eve is a filesystem-first, Apache-2.0, public-beta framework for durable backend AI agents.
An agent is a directory under agent/. Eve discovers the files, compiles a manifest, and runs locally, on Vercel, or on a long-running Node host.
You can read the agent the way you read a repo. Instructions, tools, skills, connections, and subagents are files. That is what “filesystem-first” means.
Needs Node.js 24 or newer, plus a model credential (AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY, a linked Vercel project, or a provider key).
npx eve@latest init my-agent
npm run dev
npx eve info
Into an existing app (no agent/ files yet):
npx eve@latest init .
This is a getting-started page, not a full course. Installed package docs win when they disagree: read node_modules/eve/docs/ in a project, then https://eve.dev/docs/llms.txt.
Official: https://eve.dev/docs/getting-started · https://eve.dev/docs/llms.txt · https://vercel.com/docs/eve/concepts
Eve is in public beta. Recheck the docs before asserting the framework cannot do something.