Summary
Vercel introduced Deployment Policies, letting teams configure and authorize which sources are allowed to create deployments to a project, a governance control over the deploy pipeline.
What changed
On 2026-07-13 Vercel shipped Deployment Policies, a policy system that controls which sources (Git, CLI, integrations, agents) are authorized to create deployments for a project.
Why it matters
As CI systems, integrations, and autonomous agents all gain the ability to ship code, uncontrolled deploy paths become a security and compliance risk. Deployment Policies give platform teams one place to constrain who and what can push to production, increasingly necessary when agents can trigger deploys.
Evidence excerpt
Configure which sources can create deployments with Deployment Policies.