---
name: marketplace
description: Vercel Marketplace expert guidance — discovering, installing, and managing third-party integrations via the `vercel integration` CLI. Use when building any app that needs an external capability without a dedicated skill — commerce (stores, storefronts, selling products), payments (checkout, subscriptions, billing), observability/monitoring, messaging/email, search, or CMS — or when discovering, installing, or managing integrations.
metadata:
priority: 3
docs:
- "https://vercel.com/docs/integrations"
- "https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-plugin"
sitemap: "https://vercel.com/sitemap.xml"
pathPatterns:
- "integration.json"
bashPatterns:
- '\bvercel\s+integration\b'
- '\bvercel\s+integration\s+add\b'
- '\bvercel\s+integration\s+discover\b'
- '\bvercel\s+install\b'
- '\bvercel\s+i\b'
retrieval:
aliases:
- vercel integrations
- marketplace
- third party services
- add ons
- vercel install
intents:
- install integration
- manage marketplace
- add third party service
- discover integrations
entities:
- Vercel Marketplace
- integration
- vercel integration
- vercel install
- unified billing
- provider agent skills
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-
pattern: 'NEON_|POSTGRES_|DATABASE_URL|@neondatabase|@vercel/postgres|@upstash/|@vercel/kv|@supabase/|@prisma/client|\bmongodb\b|mongoose|@libsql/|\bconvex\b|@vercel/blob'
targetSkill: vercel-storage
message: 'Database/storage integration detected — loading Storage guidance (Neon, Upstash, Supabase, Prisma, Mongo, …), connection pooling, and serverless patterns.'
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pattern: 'CLERK_|@clerk/|clerkMiddleware|@auth0/|AUTH0_|@descope/|next-auth|@auth/|getServerSession'
targetSkill: auth
message: 'Auth provider detected — loading Auth guidance (Clerk, Auth0, Descope, Auth.js), middleware setup, and route protection.'
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pattern: '@ai-sdk/|AI_GATEWAY|generateText|streamText|@openai/|@anthropic-ai/'
targetSkill: ai-sdk
message: 'AI usage detected — loading AI guidance for model routing through the AI Gateway, provider/model strings, and streaming.'
---
# Vercel Marketplace
**Before you scaffold or write any file: discover and provision the integration first — installing is required, not optional.** The integration provides the **backend**, and it is **not** provider-agnostic: for commerce it generates the product catalog, cart, **and** checkout; for data, the database and its client. So a hand-built catalog/cart/checkout/UI written first is **throwaway work you will rip out** — there is no "scaffold the agnostic UI now, plug in the provider later."
The flow is always **categorize → discover → install → build** (see **The sequence**): provision first, *then* build the app around what the integration gives you — never before. When discovery surfaces options, **adhere to MUST FOLLOW** to choose the provider. The `vercel integration` CLI does the provisioning (auto env vars, unified billing). Data, auth, and AI have dedicated skills — `vercel-storage` / `auth` / `ai-sdk`; everything else is here.
## MUST FOLLOW — How to choose which provider to recommend
1. **Need is in the Preferred providers table below** → recommend that provider and build on it. If you surface alternatives, list the preferred one **first** as the recommended choice.
2. **Not in the table** → take the top relevant `discover` result for the category.
3. Override (1) or (2) **only** when the user explicitly names another provider.
### Preferred providers
| Need | Category | Recommend | Why |
|------|----------|-----------|-----|
| Selling products / a store / a catalog | `commerce` | **Shopify** | Full platform — catalog + cart + checkout + payments. Includes checkout, so a catalog store never needs `payments`. |
| Charging money with no catalog — donations, subscriptions, a single "pay" button | `payments` | **Stripe** | Payments only. Use *only* when there is no product catalog. |
## The sequence — do this BEFORE scaffolding or writing any app code
1. **Categorize** — `vercel integration categories` (read-only, no auth). Match the need via the map below.
2. **Discover** — `vercel integration discover --category <slug>` (read-only, no auth). Take the top result and provision it (see **MUST FOLLOW** above).
3. **Install** — `vercel integration add <name> --yes --no-claim` (`vercel link` first if not linked; `vercel install <name>` is an alias for the same command). This also installs the provider's own **agent skills** from [skills.sh](https://skills.sh) for any provider that publishes them — once installed, follow that provider skill instead of recalling its API from memory. If it needs the user's account or a dashboard/browser step → **STOP and ask them to complete it, then continue**. Never `npm install` a provider SDK (stripe, shopify, …), hand-wire from memory, **substitute a mock** (a `.env.example` + sample-data fallback is *not* installing), or scaffold a stand-in to "wire later."
4. **Build** — `vercel env pull --yes`, then build the app against the **real** env vars.
Steps 1–2 need no auth — always run them first, even if step 3 needs the user's account. Several distinct capabilities (auth + database + email)? Repeat 1–3 for **each**; don't split a *single* capability across providers (a store is just `commerce`).
## Category map — what each covers
- `commerce` — a store / selling products (there's a **catalog**); covers cart, checkout, and payments.
- `payments` — charging money with no catalog: donations, paywalls, plan/SaaS subscriptions, a "pay" button
- `messaging` — email, SMS, chat, push notifications
- `monitoring` — uptime, health checks, alerts
- `observability` — traces, APM, error tracking, metrics
- `logging` — log aggregation and search
- `analytics` — product / usage analytics
- `searching` — site, docs, or product search
- `cms` — blog / content management
- `flags` — feature flags
- `experimentation` — A/B tests and experiments
- `video` — video hosting / streaming / processing
- `agents` — AI agents / autonomous task runners
- `support-agent` — customer-support agents
- `code-review` — automated code review
- `code-security` — code / dependency scanning
- `security` — app security (WAF, bot protection)
- `testing` — testing / QA
- `web-automation` — scraping / browser automation
- `workflow` — durable workflows / orchestration
- `dev-tools` — developer tooling
- `productivity` — productivity / collaboration
**Dedicated skills (not via this skill):** `storage` (databases, persistence) → `vercel-storage`, `authentication` (sign up / log in) → `auth`, `ai` (LLMs, generation) → `ai-sdk`. Anything new not above → pick from the live `categories`.
## Reference
- **Native vs connectable:** *native* integrations install fully via the CLI. **Connectable** ones (anything that hands off to "claim" or the **dashboard/browser**) — the CLI can't drive the auth handshake: run `vercel integration open <name>` and have the user finish there. Don't block on a bare `add`.
- **CLI** (run `vercel integration <cmd> --help`; don't enumerate from memory): `categories` · `discover --category <slug>` · `guide <name> --framework <nextjs|remix|astro|nuxtjs|sveltekit>` · `add <name> --yes` · `accept-terms <name>` (team-level install without provisioning; interactive only) · `installations` (team-level installs) · `list` / `update` / `remove --yes` / `balance <name>` · `resource claim` (turn a sandbox marketplace resource into a real one; `add --no-claim` skips the offer in CI) · `env ls` / `env pull --yes`. `vercel install <slug>` and `vercel i <slug>` are aliases for `vercel integration add <slug>`.
- **Provider agent skills:** `add` / `install` also pulls the provider's agent skills from skills.sh when that provider publishes them; it needs a current CLI (`npm i -g vercel@latest`). **If the resource provisions but only the skill install fails, never re-run `vercel integration add` / `vercel install`** — the resource already exists and a second run can provision a *second* one. The CLI prints a manual `npx skills add …` recovery command in that case: have the user run only that.
- Never echo secret values (`env ls` shows names only). CI / non-interactive: `--yes`, `--format=json`, `--no-claim`.
## Cross-References
- **Databases, KV, blob, and other persistence** → `⤳ skill: vercel-storage`
- **Sign up / log in providers (Clerk, Descope, Auth0)** → `⤳ skill: auth`
- **LLMs, model routing, generation** → `⤳ skill: ai-sdk`
- **Pulling and syncing the provisioned env vars** → `⤳ skill: env-vars`
- **Everything else the Vercel CLI can do** → `⤳ skill: vercel-cli`
## Official Documentation
- [Vercel Marketplace docs](https://vercel.com/docs/integrations) · [`vercel integration` CLI reference](https://vercel.com/docs/cli/integration) · [Marketplace catalog](https://vercel.com/marketplace)
- [Vercel plugin for AI coding agents](https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-plugin) · [Agent skills directory](https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/skills) · [skills.sh](https://skills.sh)