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Neon is a serverless Postgres platform with autoscaling, database branching, and scale-to-zero.

Setup & Installation

npx skills add https://github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills --skill neon-postgres
or paste the link and ask your coding assistant to install it
https://github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/neon-postgres
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What This Skill Does

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform with autoscaling, database branching, and scale-to-zero. It separates compute from storage, so each branch gets its own endpoint and branches are instant copy-on-write clones. Compatible with any Postgres driver, ORM, or framework.

Branching lets you test schema migrations against a real copy of production data without provisioning a separate database or running a dump/restore cycle.

When to use it

  • Spinning up isolated Postgres branches for each pull request preview
  • Restoring a database to a specific point in time after a bad migration
  • Connecting a Next.js app on Vercel Edge to Postgres over HTTP without TCP
  • Scaling read replicas independently for analytics queries without duplicating storage
  • Automating branch creation and deletion in CI/CD pipelines with neonctl