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- Agent hosting & deployment
- Sandboxed compute
- Scheduling
- Message streaming
- Long-running agent support
Updated March 27, 2026
Smolagents is Hugging Face minimalist agent framework for building AI agents with code-based actions.
Vercel for background agents — hosting and deployment platform for long-running AI agents with sandboxed compute, scheduling, and message streaming.
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What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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