--- title: "Give Your Agent a Computer — Nico Albanese, Vercel" url: https://daily.dev/posts/give-your-agent-a-computer-nico-albanese-vercel-ytkzlxnsx source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wflNENRSUb4 type: video:youtube source: "AI Engineer" published: 2026-05-12T18:10:22.675Z updated: 2026-07-30T02:12:30.672Z tags: ["ai-agents", "ai-sdk", "nextjs", "vercel"] reading_time: 68 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Give Your Agent a Computer — Nico Albanese, Vercel **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 68 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live workshop walkthrough by Nico Albanese from Vercel demonstrating how to build an AI agent with a persistent computer/sandbox using the Vercel AI SDK. The session covers setting up a Next.js app with the AI SDK's ToolLoopAgent, adding web search via provider-executed tools, integrating Vercel Sandbox (beta) for persistent file system access, and implementing agent memory via a markdown file stored in the sandbox. Key concepts include the three types of tools (custom, provider-defined, provider-executed), call options and runtime context for passing sandbox instances to tools, context window management strategies, and how a file-system-backed agent dramatically improves task completion and reduces hallucination. The talk concludes with a demo of a production coding agent system using sub-agents, durable workflows, and a 91% cache token read ratio. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Learning Vercel AI SDK—Part 2: Creating Your First Agent](https://daily.dev/posts/learning-vercel-ai-sdk-part-2-creating-your-first-agent-jc5omyhsf) · Telerik · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-sdk](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-sdk), [#nextjs](https://daily.dev/tags/nextjs), [#vercel](https://daily.dev/tags/vercel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/give-your-agent-a-computer-nico-albanese-vercel-ytkzlxnsx)