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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.

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:

# 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

Database Drivers & ORMs

HTTP/WebSocket queries for serverless/edge functions.

Auth & Data API SDKs

Authentication and PostgREST-style data API for Neon.

Neon Platform API & CLI

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