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NeonCarlota Soto5 min readrelease notesintermediate

Just landed in the Neon CLI

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Summary

Neon renamed its CLI to `neon` and added a suite of commands for agent onboarding, branch‑first development, diagnostics, credential management, schema diffing, API fallback, snapshots, auth, Data API, and a built‑in psql client. The post lists usage examples and flags for each new feature.

  • The CLI binary is now `neon` (npm package `neon`), with `neonctl` kept as an alias.
  • `neon init`, `neon mcp`, and `neon skills` provide one‑shot or granular agent setup (OAuth, MCP server, skill installation).
  • Branch‑first workflow commands: `neon link` (bind dir to project), `neon checkout <branch>` (pin branch and pull env), and `neon env pull` (populate .env, optionally per service).
  • `neon inspect db <check>` offers read‑only Postgres diagnostics (bloat, unused indexes, locks, etc.) for any linked branch or arbitrary URL.

The expanded CLI surface lets developers and coding agents operate entirely from the terminal, reducing context switches to the Neon Console and enabling automated CI/CD pipelines with fine‑grained credentials and branch‑scoped environment handling.

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