Convex Backend

What it does

This skill provides access to a Convex backend, enabling AI agents to interact with and manage data stored within a Convex environment. It facilitates tasks such as querying databases, creating new records, updating existing ones, and performing complex calculations based on the stored information. This allows for persistent state and more sophisticated agent behavior than relying solely on short-term memory.

When to use it

• Persistent Data Storage: When your AI agent needs to remember information across sessions or interactions (e.g., user preferences, game progress).
• Complex Calculations & Logic: To perform calculations or apply logic that requires access to a larger dataset than can be held in the agent's context window.
• Real-time Updates: When you need your AI agent to react to changes in data stored within the Convex backend (e.g., updating inventory levels).
• Collaborative Agents: To enable multiple agents to share and modify data within a centralized system.

Key capabilities

• Database interaction via Convex API
• Data querying
• Record creation
• Record updates

Example prompts

• "Retrieve the user's order history from the database."
• "Create a new record for product ID 123 with quantity 5."
• “Update the total score in the leaderboard table.”

Tips & gotchas

• Requires an existing Convex project and API key to function.
• Familiarity with the Convex data schema is necessary to formulate accurate queries and updates.