Chinese Tech Daily — 2026-05-05#

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Vercel Open-Sources Open Agents for Background AI Coding Workflows. Vercel has open-sourced Open Agents, providing a full-stack reference architecture to create and run persistent, background AI coding agents. By decoupling the agent logic from a sandboxed execution environment that handles file systems, shell commands, and dev servers, the release marks a significant shift from simple request-bound tools to autonomous, long-running systems capable of independently managing complex code changes across multiple steps.