Summary

On August 18, 2026, Vercel for Platforms added support for provider-supplied short-lived GitHub tokens for deployments; Vercel encrypts and retrieves source code on demand without permanently storing it.

What changed

Vercel for Platforms added support for user-provided short-lived GitHub tokens; source is fetched and encrypted at deploy time rather than persisted.

Why it matters

Ephemeral, scoped credentials and no-source-retention reduce the blast radius of a platform compromise, which matters as multi-tenant and agent-driven deploy flows proliferate and customers demand tighter supply-chain and data-handling guarantees.

Evidence excerpt

Users can now provide short-lived GitHub tokens for deployments; Vercel encrypts and retrieves source code without permanent storage.

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