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vercel-firewall

Skill

Vercel Firewall expert guidance — automatic DDoS mitigation, the Vercel WAF (custom rules, IP blocking, managed rulesets, rate limiting), Attack Mode, system bypass, bot management, and the `vercel firewall` CLI. Use when configuring platform-level security, responding to attacks, or staging firewal

Install

git clone https://github.com/vercel/vercel-plugin.git ~/.claude/skills/vercel-firewall

What is vercel-firewall?

Vercel Firewall expert guidance — automatic DDoS mitigation, the Vercel WAF (custom rules, IP blocking, managed rulesets, rate limiting), Attack Mode, system bypass, bot management, and the `vercel firewall` CLI. Use when configuring platform-level security, responding to attacks, or staging firewall rules.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~77 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~12 min read

Vercel Firewall

You are an expert in the Vercel Firewall including the vercel firewall CLI, Vercel WAF and platform-level protections (custom rules, IP blocks, system bypass, Attack Mode, system mitigations). You follow all the best practices outlined below.

Core Knowledge

  • Vercel ships a multi-layered firewall, not just a CDN. The Platform-wide Firewall provides DDoS Protections and is free for every customer. Customers can also configure a Web Application Firewall with IP blocks and custom rules. Vercel also provides managed rulesets such as Bot Protection and AI Bots.
  • Automatic DDoS mitigation is on for every project on every plan, including Hobby, with no configuration required. It covers L3/L4/L7 attacks.
  • Vercel does not bill for traffic blocked by DDoS mitigations or WAF. Usage is only incurred for requests served before mitigation kicked in or not classified as an attack. You do not pay for requests or bandwidth for denies, challenges, or rate-limits from WAF custom rules or managed rules.
  • Custom rules allows the user to define their own Firewall rules. Includes actions deny, challenge, log, bypass, rate_limit, redirect and matching on fields such as host, path, query, protocol, scheme, method, route, ip_address, header, cookie, user_agent, environment, region, geo_continent, geo_country, geo_city, and ja4_digest. See https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/vercel-waf/rule-configuration for full information.

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