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Building durable Agents with Workflow DevKit & AI SDK - Peter Wielander, Vercel

8.4K views · Jan 06, 2026 · 69:48 min · Watch on YouTube ↗
Takeaway

Wrap long-running agents in a workflow library to get durability, retries, observability and human approval without manual queue plumbing.

Summary

  • Vercel's Peter Wielander demos the Workflow DevKit: a TypeScript open-source library that adds durability, retries, observability and human-in-the-loop to AI SDK agents.
  • Replaces ad-hoc queue+DB+retry plumbing for long-running serverless agents with a single workflow primitive composed of retriable steps.
  • Live demo converts a vibe-coding agent into a workflow-backed agent with resumability and first-class tracing on Vercel.
  • Workflow DevKit is cloud-agnostic — runs on any TS frontend/backend and any cloud, not Vercel-only.
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Original description
Learn to build and deploy AI agents using Vercel's new open source Workflows platform.

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