LABSCO SUMMARY
neondatabase/postgres-skills is two skills, and only one of them, postgres-best-practices, is actually about Postgres.
postgres-best-practices covers schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, migrations, and common pitfalls, and triggers whenever an agent is writing SQL, designing a schema, optimizing a query, or setting up a Postgres database — vendor-agnostic, so it applies whether the database sits on Neon, RDS, or bare metal. It is credited to two named reviewers rather than an anonymous contributor list: Stas Kelvich, Neon's cofounder and a long-time Postgres contributor, and Jonathan Katz, a PostgreSQL Core Team member and Principal Product Manager on Amazon RDS. The repository's own AI Policy states plainly that skills here must be written by humans, on the reasoning that content an AI can already generate on demand has no reason to be pre-encoded into a skill.
The second skill, skill-creator, is the generic agent-skills-authoring tool that walks a user through building a new skill of their own; it isn't Postgres-specific, and it isn't mentioned anywhere in the readme's "Available Skills" section, which describes only postgres-best-practices. Someone installing this package for Postgres guidance gets one real skill and one general-purpose skill-building tool bundled alongside it.
The readme runs an open, paid call for contributors, gated on demonstrated production Postgres experience and a public record of writing about it, and names its current reviewers individually rather than listing a broad author pool — the shape of a repository still filling out its shelf, not one that has stalled at two skills.
Neither the readme nor the skill descriptions state an account, API key, or local tool either one needs, so treat "install and go" as likely but not confirmed until you've tried it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
A reference shelf for the Postgres database, with a page each on designing tables, making slow queries fast, backups, replication, security and version upgrades, so you go straight to the one that matches the problem in front of you.
Walks you through designing, writing and packaging a new Skill — a self-contained instructions bundle that gives Claude a workflow or domain knowledge it doesn't already have — ending with a distributable file ready to share.
Postgres best practices and guidelines for coding agents.
INSTALL
CHOOSE SKILLS
Run this outside your AI tool, using Node.js 22.20.0 or newer. Skills CLI 1.7.2 starts with no skills selected; prompts cancel installation without an interactive terminal. For project installation, open your project's folder first.
Install checklist
Select All, then Enter. Enter alone cannot continue with nothing selected.Additional agents. ↑/↓ moves, Space toggles selections, Enter confirms.Installing to: for your intended tool. Stop if it names a different tool.Symlink (Recommended) for shared files or Copy to all agents for separate copies; review the summary before confirming installation.Install the find-skills skill? defaults to Yes, adding another skill for all projects. Choose No if you don't want that extra installation.npx skills add neondatabase/postgres-skillsSINGLE SKILL
Run this outside your AI tool, using Node.js 22.20.0 or newer. Skills CLI 1.7.2 skips skill selection; prompts cancel installation without an interactive terminal. If choosing Project when asked about installation scope, open your project's folder before running this.
Install checklist
Additional agents. ↑/↓ moves, Space toggles selections, Enter confirms.Installing to: for your intended tool. Stop if it names a different tool.Symlink (Recommended) for shared files or Copy to all agents for separate copies; review the summary before confirming installation.Install the find-skills skill? defaults to Yes, adding another skill for all projects. Choose No if you don't want that extra installation.Find the skill name in the Skills tab and put it in the command before running it. Each entry there installs independently.
npx skills add neondatabase/postgres-skills --skill <YOUR_SKILL_NAME> --full-depthPLUGIN MARKETPLACE
/plugin marketplace add neondatabase/postgres-skills/plugin install postgres-best-practices@postgres-skillsTyped inside the agent's own prompt, not in a terminal. The marketplace is called postgres-skills, which is the part after the @.