Changelog

Add Neon to your coding agent

Three new Neon CLI commands set up Neon in coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code, without manual config steps. Each runs an interactive walkthrough, or takes flags so you can script it.

neon mcp

Installs the Neon MCP Server into your agents by writing their MCP config for you. It points each agent at the hosted server, sets up authentication, and can limit which tools the agent sees. By default, it mints a Neon API key and writes it into the config. Alternativevly, pass --oauth to skip API-key creation and have the agent sign in to Neon on first use instead.

For example, install into Cursor and Claude Code with read-only tools:

neon mcp --agent cursor --agent claude-code --read-only

neon skills

Installs Neon's agent skills so tools like Cursor and Claude Code know how to work with Neon's Postgres, AI Gateway, Object Storage, and Functions. Skills install into the current directory by default, so they travel with the repository, and neon skills update refreshes them to their latest versions later.

For example, install the core Postgres and AI Gateway skills into Cursor:

neon skills -s neon -s neon-ai-gateway --agent cursor

neon plugins

Installs the neon-postgres plugin into agents that support plugin marketplaces, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. The plugin bundles Neon's agent skills and MCP access in one package, so a single install gives the agent both.

For example, install into Claude Code without prompts:

neon plugins --agent claude-code -y

The Neon CLI has seen many new additions over the past several weeks. For a tour of other recent additions, from the branch-first workflow to built-in Postgres diagnostics, see Just landed in the Neon CLI.

Postgres minor version rollout history now in the docs

Our Postgres version support policy docs now include a rollout history for recent minor releases. For each release, you can see the date PostgreSQL published it, the versions it included, when it became available on Neon, and how long that took. For example:

Each version in the table links to its PostgreSQL release notes, so you can see exactly which bug fixes and CVE patches that minor release contains.

Get started building on the Neon backend

Two new guides show what you can build with the Neon backend, where Object Storage, Functions, and the AI Gateway sit next to your database:

• Build an image processing API with Neon Functions, Sharp, and Neon AI Gateway: resize, crop, optimize, analyze, and AI-caption images on Neon Functions, then store the results in your branch's Object Storage bucket.
• Clean up orphaned S3 objects with Neon Object Storage branching: run a real storage-cleanup job on a branch first, where buckets branch with your database, then promote it to production once you've verified it.

Try the Neon backend, free during the beta

Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway are in beta in AWS US East (Ohio) and branch with your Postgres database, so your whole stack forks together.

Get started

Connect fx to Neon's MCP server

fx is a small, fast coding agent and CLI from Vercel Labs, built to embed in larger systems. You can now connect it to Neon's remote MCP server, using either OAuth or a Neon API key, so the agent can work with your Neon projects directly.

For example, add the server with OAuth:

npx add-mcp https://mcp.neon.tech/mcp -a fx

Then authorize from the fx shell:

/mcp auth neon --open

For the API key option and more detail, see Connect MCP clients to Neon.

Fixes & improvements

Faster Lakebase Search setup

Lakebase Search is now easier to install. You can install both Lakebase Search extensions (lakebase_vector and lakebase_text) directly with the following CREATE EXTENSION statements from your SQL client or the Neon SQL Editor:

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS lakebase_vector CASCADE;
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS lakebase_text CASCADE;

Previously, you had to run an SQL statement first to load the supporting libraries.

We also updated both extensions to newer versions (lakebase_vector 1.0.1 and lakebase_text 0.1.1). If you already have them installed, see Update an extension to get the latest version.

Postgres minor version updates

We updated supported Postgres versions to 14.24, 15.19, 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6. Minor releases bring you the latest upstream Postgres fixes and security patches.

When a new minor version is available, Neon applies it the next time your compute restarts. For more about how we handle PostgreSQL minor version updates, refer to our Postgres version support policy.

Neon CLI updates

Store credentials in your OS keyring. You can now keep a profile's credential in your operating system's keyring instead of a file. Pass --keyring to neon auth or neon profile create:

neon auth --keyring

The secret is stored in the macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or Linux Secret Service.

Inspect every database at once. neon inspect db now inspects every database on the branch when you omit the database name, adding a database column to the output. Pass the database name to inspect a single database, which also scopes locks and long-running-queries so their names resolve correctly.

Neon MCP server now an official Claude connector

The Neon MCP server is now listed in Claude's connectors. You can manage Neon from Claude: create projects and branches, run SQL, change schemas, and diagnose a slow query.

In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Connectors, click Browse connectors, add Neon, and authorize access to your Neon account.

Install Neon Agent Skills with Pi

You can now install Neon Agent Skills with Pi, straight from the repository:

pi install git:github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills

Pi reads the skills directly, so there's no separate sync step. This joins the existing install channels, including npx skills, the Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi Code plugins, and neon init.

New Neon Functions guides

Two new guides show what you can build on Neon Functions, which run alongside your database as part of the Neon backend:

• Automate Neon Functions deployments with GitHub Actions: set up CI/CD to deploy to production on merge and create preview functions for pull requests.
• Monitor Neon Functions with Sentry: add error tracking, structured logs, and request tracing.

Try the Neon backend

Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway branch with your Postgres database, so your whole stack forks together.

Get started

Electric joins Neon

Electric, the team behind the Electric sync engine and PGlite, is joining Neon. The sync engine keeps data continuously synchronized between a central Postgres database and connected clients such as browser tabs, mobile apps, and agents, so you can build real-time, collaborative, and agentic apps without hand-rolling websockets, caching, and a sync layer.

Real-time sync is hard to get right on your own: conflict resolution, partial replication, and reconnection logic are difficult to build from scratch. Electric turns it into a reusable primitive that handles the hard parts, so agents can add live, collaborative features by default instead of wiring up sync themselves.

Electric is coming to the Neon platform alongside Neon's other backend services (Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Storage, Functions, and the AI Gateway), with deeper integration already underway. To get familiar now, our guide to Electric on Neon walks through real-time sync with Shapes and a React app.

Read the full announcement: Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks.

Neon AI Gateway is now a Vercel AI SDK provider

The Neon AI Gateway gives you one API and one credential for 42+ frontier and open-source models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more), built into your Neon branch. It's now a community provider for the Vercel AI SDK: point the SDK at your branch and swap models without per-provider SDKs or keys.

import { neon } from '@neon/ai-sdk-provider';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: neon('gpt-5-mini'),
  prompt: 'What is serverless Postgres?',
});

Set NEON_AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL and NEON_AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN from your branch, or pull them with neon env pull.

Neon's skills and MCP install in any agent

Support for Agent Plugins 1.0.0

Neon's agent skills and MCP server now ship as an Agent Plugins package, an open standard for extending agents with skills and MCP. Point any conforming client, such as Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, or VS Code, at the repo to load them straight from source.

All existing native plugins remain available:

• Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add neondatabase/agent-skills, then /plugin install neon-postgres@neon
• Cursor: /add-plugin neon-postgres
• Kimi Code: /plugins install https://github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills

Neon CLI updates

The CLI keeps growing. Recent additions include a branch-first workflow (neon link, neon checkout, neon psql, neon data-api) and commands for the new backend services (neon functions, neon buckets); see the CLI reference for the full set. Two of the latest:

neon env pull gained a --service flag to pull credentials for only the services you name, repeatable for more than one:

neon env pull --service ai-gateway --service postgres

neon open (neonctl 3.2.0) opens your linked project's dashboard in the Neon Console, straight from the terminal:

neon open

Inspect a database from the Neon MCP server

We first shipped these diagnostics as the neon inspect db CLI command. The same checks are now built into the Neon MCP server as the inspect_database tool. It runs the same 14 read-only diagnostics: table and index sizes, unused indexes, sequential scans, long-running queries and locks, heavy and frequent statements, cache hit rate and working set, autovacuum and bloat, and replication state. Ask your assistant why a branch is slow or large without writing catalog SQL by hand.

Don't have the MCP server set up yet? Install it with neon init:

npx neon@latest init

Neon for Herdr

Neon for Herdr puts a live Neon pane in your Herdr terminal workspace. Browse projects, create and reset branches, start or suspend compute, and copy connection strings without leaving your editor.

herdr plugin install neon-solutions/neon-herdr
herdr plugin action invoke neon.herdr.dashboard

Read the post: Neon for Herdr: a Neon pane in your Herdr workspace.