Using Neon

# 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

| 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, scrip