Using neon

Skill onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library/skills/using-neon

Guides and best practices for working with Neon Serverless Postgres. Covers getting started, local development with Neon, choosing a connection method, Neon features, authentication (@neondatabase/auth), PostgREST-style data API (@neondatabase/neon-js), Neon CLI, and Neon's Platform API/SDKs. Use for any Neon-related questions.From its SKILL.md

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Neon Serverless Postgres

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that separates compute and storage to offer autoscaling, branching, instant restore, and scale-to-zero. It's fully compatible with Postgres and works with any language, framework, or ORM that supports Postgres.

Neon Documentation

Always reference the Neon documentation before making Neon-related claims. The documentation is the source of truth for all Neon-related information.

Below you'll find a list of resources organized by area of concern. This is meant to support you find the right documentation pages to fetch and add a bit of additonal context.

You can use the curl commands to fetch the documentation page as markdown:

Documentation:

# Get list of all Neon docs
curl https://neon.tech/llms.txt

# Fetch any doc page as markdown
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://neon.tech/docs/<path>

Don't guess docs pages. Use the llms.txt index to find the relevant URL or follow the links in the resources below.

Overview of Resources

Reference the appropriate resource file based on the user's needs:

Core Guides

Area	Resource	When to Use
What is Neon	`references/what-is-neon.md`	Understanding Neon concepts, architecture, core resources
Referencing Docs	`references/referencing-docs.md`	Looking up official documentation, verifying information
Features	`references/features.md`	Branching, autoscaling, scale-to-zero, instant restore
Getting Started	`references/getting-started.md`	Setting up a project, connection strings, dependencies, schema
Connection Methods	`references/connection-methods.md`	Choosing drivers based on platform and runtime
Developer Tools	`references/devtools.md`	VSCode extension, MCP server, Neon CLI (`neon init`)

Database Drivers & ORMs

HTTP/WebSocket queries for serverless/edge functions.

Area	Resource	When to Use
Serverless Driver	`references/neon-serverless.md`	`@neondatabase/serverless` - HTTP/WebSocket queries
Drizzle ORM	`references/neon-drizzle.md`	Drizzle ORM integration with Neon

Auth & Data API SDKs

Authentication and PostgREST-style data API for Neon.

Area	Resource	When to Use
Neon Auth	`references/neon-auth.md`	`@neondatabase/auth` - Authentication only
Neon JS SDK	`references/neon-js.md`	`@neondatabase/neon-js` - Auth + Data API (PostgREST-style queries)

Neon Platform API & CLI

Managing Neon resources programmatically via REST API, SDKs, or CLI.

Area	Resource	When to Use
Platform API Overview	`references/neon-platform-api.md`	Managing Neon resources via REST API
Neon CLI	`references/neon-cli.md`	Terminal workflows, scripts, CI/CD pipelines
TypeScript SDK	`references/neon-typescript-sdk.md`	`@neondatabase/api-client`
Python SDK	`references/neon-python-sdk.md`	`neon-api` package

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