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Gen and Vercel Partner for AI Skills Safety Verification


Gen and Vercel Partner for AI Skills Safety Verification
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  • February 19, 2026

Gen has partnered with Vercel to integrate Gen's Agent Trust Hub (ATH) with skills.sh, Vercel's open directory for reusable AI agent skills. The collaboration provides independent safety verification and transparent risk ratings for skills published on the platform, helping developers and users make informed decisions before installing or executing agent capabilities.

Quick Intel

  • Gen's Agent Trust Hub will verify and classify skills on skills.sh as Safe, Low Risk, High Risk, or Critical Risk using advanced risk modeling and threat intelligence from Gen Threat Labs.
  • Vercel’s skills.sh serves as a discovery layer for modular AI agent capabilities, supporting more than 6 million developers worldwide.
  • The partnership addresses emerging risks from agentic AI browsers and skills, including data exposure, prompt injection vulnerabilities, and indistinguishable human vs. AI activity.
  • Verification focuses on security weaknesses, unsafe permissions, behavioral anomalies, and potential malicious intent, embedding trust directly into the ecosystem.
  • Quote from Howie Xu, Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Gen: “AI agents are becoming powerful digital actors. Trust must be built into the ecosystem itself.”
  • Quote from Andrew Qu, Chief of Software at Vercel: “Developers want to move quickly, and users want confidence. This partnership with Gen's Agent Trust Hub helps ensure that as AI capabilities grow, so does transparency.”

Securing the Skills Layer in Agentic AI

AI agents increasingly execute real-world tasks autonomously, relying on modular skills for capabilities such as web browsing, API connections, and multi-step workflows. As these skills proliferate, risks from malicious or poorly designed components—such as data exposure via always-on AI sidebars or prompt injection attacks—grow significantly. Gen’s Agent Trust Hub analyzes skills independently, providing clear risk classifications visible in the discovery experience on skills.sh. This enables safer adoption without blanket blocking, preserving innovation velocity while closing critical security gaps.

Building Trust in Agentic Commerce and Workflows

The partnership advances ecosystem-level trust infrastructure essential for agentic AI. Where traditional security protects devices and networks, Agent Trust Hub focuses on the AI agents themselves and the skills they depend on. By making verification an integrated part of the development and discovery lifecycle, Gen and Vercel help ensure that as AI transitions from assistive to autonomous, safety scales alongside capability.

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. The Gen family of consumer brands is rooted in providing financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations. Today, Gen empowers people to live their digital lives safely, privately and confidently for generations to come. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

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