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Create Vercel Firewall rules with natural language

Vercel has introduced natural language support for its Firewall, allowing users to create WAF custom rules by describing the desired behavior in plain text. The feature generates rules that can log, block, challenge, rate limit, or redirect traffic based on conditions like IP address, path, country, and user agent. This update simplifies traffic management for developers by eliminating the need to manually configure complex rule syntax.

read1 min publishedMay 12, 2026

Vercel Firewall now lets you create WAF custom rules using natural language. Describe the behavior you need and the dashboard will generate the rule.

Visit the firewall custom rules page to try creating a rate-limiting rule:

Or use the Vercel CLI:

WAF custom rules let you control traffic to your site by logging, blocking, challenging, rate limiting, or redirecting requests based on conditions like IP address, path, country, user agent, and more.

For example, you can: Log all requests to /api/webhook

with a missing authorization header

Block all requests to /wp-admin

Challenge all traffic to /checkout

that doesn't come from the US

Generate your first rule or learn more in the documentation.

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