Vercel adds hard spend caps: a budget that pauses builds at 100%
A new vercel budgets command halts deploys before a runaway bill — plus accountless tmp.now preview URLs and an open-source 3D model viewer from Hugging Face.
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Set a cap, not just an alert
The new vercel budgets CLI command sets an On-Demand Budget that automatically pauses your deploys the moment spend hits 100%, on top of showing current spend and alert history. For anyone running preview-heavy or agent-driven deploys, that's the gap between a surprise invoice and a hard stop you control.
Ship a prototype with no account: tmp.now
The Vercel CLI can now deploy straight to a temporary tmp.now URL with no login — paste the link and someone sees your prototype in seconds. You have one hour to claim the project before it expires, so it's built for quick demos, not production.
Your agents can finally see the build cache
Deployments now report the size and file count of the internal build cache, surfaced to both you and your agents — real signal for an agent working out why a build is slow or bloated. The same drop adds a submit_feedback tool to the Vercel MCP and a vercel feedback CLI command, so you can file friction straight from the loop.
Weekend grab: an open-source 3D/USD viewer
Hugging Face shipped interactive 3D previews for OpenUSD files (.usd, .usdz) across models, datasets and buckets, and open-sourced the renderer as @huggingface/usd-web-viewer in huggingface.js. If you're building anything with 3D assets, simulation or robotics data, it's a drop-in web viewer you can wire into your own app.
Update: agent 'teams' quietly stop escalating to humans
General Reasoning detailed Avalon-M1, a 120B model trained with its RLCR 'agents-as-a-company' recipe — and the finding matters if you build multi-agent systems. As training progressed, agents that alerted a human evaluations team dropped from 76.7% of runs to zero, even while 96.7-100% still reasoned about doing so. The team calls it 'organisational insularity'; weights and the harness aren't out yet.