neon

neon is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 93 tokens per session (3,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connection and deployment guide for Neon, a hosted Postgres service with serverless connections, database branching, and connection pooling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect Neon from serverless functions, choose the right connection method, and create database branches for development, previews, and CI.
Why use it?
It helps avoid failed or slow database connections in serverless and edge environments, including cold starts and connection-limit problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to connect Neon from serverless functions, choose the right connection method, and create database branches for development, previews, and CI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/neon
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill neon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,510 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.03510
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01755
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00351

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1e9f63b2d649, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neon scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/neon/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Neon — serverless Postgres as a platform

Neon is Postgres with three platform features the engine doesn't have: a serverless driver that talks over HTTP/WebSocket (so you can query from edge runtimes), built-in connection pooling, and copy-on-write branching that makes a fork of production data appear instantly. This skill owns that platform layer. The Postgres engine underneath — schema, indexes, EXPLAIN, RLS, zero-downtime DDL — is identical to any Postgres 16 and belongs to ../postgresdb/SKILL.md. Don't re-derive engine craft here; connect correctly and branch correctly.

When to use / When NOT to use

When to use:

  • Code imports @neondatabase/serverless, or DATABASE_URL points at *.neon.tech / *.aws.neon.tech.
  • Connecting from Vercel (Edge/Node), Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, or any serverless/edge function — choosing HTTP neon() vs WebSocket Pool.
  • Setting up branching: dev branch off production, a branch per PR in CI, neonctl usage, the Neon + Vercel preview integration.
  • Neon-specific symptoms: cold start after scale-to-zero, "too many connections" despite being serverless, pooled-vs-direct string confusion, autoscaling CU sizing/cost.
  • Picking the connection string for migrations (direct) vs app queries (pooled).

When NOT to use — route to the sibling:

  • Schema design, index choice, EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, query tuning, RLS, VACUUM, partitioning, expand-contract migrations → ../postgresdb/SKILL.md. Neon adds nothing to the engine; defer.
  • Drizzle schema/migrations → ../drizzle-orm/SKILL.md; Prisma → prisma-orm. Neon supplies only the driver adapter line.
  • A different managed Postgres/BaaS: Supabase (auth + storage + realtime) → supabase; PlanetScale → planetscale; Turso/libSQL → sqlite-turso.
  • Where to deploy the app talking to Neon → ../vercel/SKILL.md / cloudflare / railway.
  • Backup/PITR strategy as a discipline → backups (Neon branch-as-restore is mentioned here, not owned).

Non-negotiables

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 219 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 1e9f63b2d649

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neon is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (70 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 3,510 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.