Vercel introduced a managed Microsoft connector that handles application registration and credential setup for connected projects. After tenant authorization, a deployment can use its own identity to request short-lived access credentials. The announcement distinguishes application access approved by an administrator from acting for a user within that user's authorized permissions.
This reduces the client-secret setup developers must manage while keeping access dependent on authorization. It resembles the runtime-credential approach in the earlier GitHub tools integration, whose announcement describes generating short-lived credentials for repository operations.
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
