# Vercel Agent now installs private packages from npm and custom registries

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- Publisher: Vercel
- Author credit: Matan Kushner; Tom Dale; Vishal Yathish
- Category: AI
- Original publication time: 2026-09-30T23:22:00Z
- Original update time: 2026-09-30T23:22:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:47Z
- Original source: https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-agent-now-installs-private-packages-from-npm-and-custom-registries
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-ccfbd9944801bc798aa7

## The brief

Vercel Agent can now install private dependencies from npm and custom registries using team-shared environment settings. The change supports npm, pnpm and classic Yarn, with separate configuration for npm tokens or additional registries. Vercel says credential values stay outside the agent’s sandbox. Project-scoped variables are not used for this feature, so existing build configuration may need to be adjusted.

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