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Gen and Vercel Partner to Bring Independent Safety Verification to the AI Skills Ecosystem
As AI agents evolve from assistants into autonomous digital actors capable of executing real-world tasks, Gen (NASDAQ: GEN) today announced a strategic partnership with Vercel to bring independent safety verification to the growing AI skills ecosystem at https://skills.sh/. Vercel's platform serves more than 6 million developers worldwide, and skills.sh – its open directory for reusable AI agent skills – serves as a discovery layer where developers can publish and install modular capabilities th
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