Neki

This loads context about PlanetScale's upcoming sharded Postgres product when you're dealing with Postgres scaling or sharding challenges. It's from the team behind Vitess, so they know horizontal scaling. The skill itself is pretty light right now since Neki isn't released yet, but it covers what sharded Postgres means, why you'd use PlanetScale to host it, and includes a reference on sharding readiness that's actually useful today. Worth loading if you're hitting single-node Postgres limits or planning for scale, less useful if you need immediate hands-on implementation details.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add planetscale/database-skills --skill neki --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

PlanetScale Neki

Docs: https://planetscale.com/docs/neki · https://neki.dev/

Platform Preview: Neki is in PlanetScale Platform Preview (a Beta Feature under the PlanetScale Terms of Service; no SLA). Single-instance, non-HA configurations are not supported during the preview. See Platform preview limitations.

Overview

Neki is distributed (sharded) Postgres by PlanetScale. Every shard is real Postgres; Neki places a router in front of the shards and adds per-instance sidecars and a control plane (topology service, admin, Replicator) to route, coordinate, and operate Postgres across many shards — all behind one Postgres connection string on port 5432. Applications use standard Postgres clients, drivers, and ORMs.

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