SKILL.md
--- name: using-neon description: "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." risk: safe source: "https://github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/neon-postgres" date_added: "2026-02-27" --- # 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. ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill when: - Working with Neon Serverless Postgres - Setting up Neon databases - Choosing connection methods for Neon - Using Neon features like branching or autoscaling - Working with Neon authentication or APIs - Questions about Neon best practices ## 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:** ```bash # Get list of all Neon docs curl https://neon.com/llms.txt # Fetch any doc page as markdown curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://neon.com/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 | | ------------------ | ------------------------