BSBruno Silva
AI Engineering
node_modules as Intelligence: The Quiet Shift to AI-Native Frameworks
Next.js 16 ships its own documentation inside the package, exposes a built-in MCP endpoint, and writes AGENTS.md by default. A teardown of what Vercel is actually building, and why frameworks now have to be machine-readable.
ai-native-engineeringnext.jsvercel
14 min read·May 13, 2026