Vercel Eve Review: Filesystem-First Agent Framework Tested
Ever stared at an Agent project with tools scattered across five files, prompts buried in environment variables, and no clear answer to “where does this thing even run from?” Yeah, me too. That’s been the state of Agent development for the past year — powerful frameworks, zero conventions. Then Vercel dropped eve three days ago, and the repo hit 1,358 stars before I’d even finished my morning coffee. So I installed it, pushed it around for an afternoon, and here’s what I found: eve treats the filesystem as the agent’s authoring interface. Your agent lives in a directory structure — agent/instructions.md, agent/tools/, agent/skills/, agent/channels/, agent/schedules/. Write files, not boilerplate. The framework discovers them and wires them up automatically. ...