Neon Functions

Long-running, serverless Node.js HTTP functions deployed onto your Neon branch, with DATABASE_URL injected automatically and compute that runs next to your data. Use when a user wants to host an API, an AI agent with long streaming responses, a WebSocket or server-sent-events (SSE) server, a webhook handler, a Discord bot, an MCP server, or any request/response workload that risks timing out on short, lambda-style serverless functions — and wants it to branch with their database. Also use for Function Triggers: a cron or an object-storage event that POSTs to a function. Triggers include "serverless function", "deploy an API", "long-running function", "streaming agent", "SSE server", "WebSocket server", "webhook handler", "MCP server", "cron", "scheduled function", "object storage trigger", "on upload", "function that won't time out", "function logs", "Neon Functions", "Neon Compute", "DDoS protection", "rate limiting", and "production hardening". For live UIs over database rows, use neon-realtime.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add neondatabase/agent-skills --skill neon-functions --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

FIRST: Use the parent neon skill for a Neon overview, getting started with Neon, Neon development best practices, and more.

If the neon skill is not installed, fetch it from https://neon.com/docs/ai/skills/neon/SKILL.md or install it with:

neon skills -s neon -y

Neon Functions

Currently available in aws-us-east-2, aws-us-east-1, aws-eu-central-1, and aws-ap-southeast-1.

Neon Functions are long-running Node.js HTTP handlers deployed onto a Neon branch. Each function gets a public HTTPS URL, runs in the same region as your database, and — if the branch has Postgres — gets DATABASE_URL injected automatically. You deploy and manage them through the same Neon CLI, neon.ts, and API you already use.

Use this skill to help the user define, run locally, deploy, and manage functions next to their database. Deliver a deployed function with its invocation URL, a working local neon dev loop, or a precise answer from the official Neon docs.