Experimental native binaries for Vercel CLI
By Steven Van ·
Vercel's opt-in native CLI binary skips the Node.js dependency and adds code signing and macOS Keychain-scoped credentials.
The Vercel CLI now has an optional experimental native binary, opt-in via a separate package. It starts faster than the standard CLI and drops the Node.js runtime dependency entirely.
- Binaries are code-signed, so the OS can verify they came from Vercel and haven't been modified.
- On macOS, credentials are stored in the system Keychain scoped to the binary, so other processes can't read them without explicit permission.
- Install with pnpm i -g @vercel/vc-native -f; the -f flag is required because the package uses the same global vercel and vc bin names as the standard CLI.
- Once installed, vercel and vc run the native binary across macOS, Linux, and Windows on both x64 and arm64.
Vercel is taking feedback on GitHub during the experimental period.
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