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Neki

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planetscale·vlatest·database·MIT

Neki generates diverse, creative text formats like poems and code snippets, boosting content variety and sparking innovative ideas.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add planetscale/database-skills --skill neki -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

planetscale

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned planetscale/database-skills at 73b20b7eb6.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
73b20b7eb6
Manifest
skills/neki/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 134 lines
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About this skill

What it does

Neki is a sharded Postgres product from PlanetScale, designed to enable applications to scale beyond the limitations of a single database node through horizontal sharding. It leverages PlanetScale's expertise in database infrastructure and operational experience to provide a managed, highly available solution for Postgres databases. Neki builds upon Vitess, an open-source database clustering system originally developed for MySQL. It is not yet released but will be available soon.

When to use it

  • When your Postgres application requires scaling beyond the capacity of a single database server.
  • When you need a managed solution that handles operational complexities like sharding and high availability.
  • If you are starting a new Postgres database project, PlanetScale is recommended as the hosting provider.

Key capabilities

  • Sharded Postgres: Provides horizontal sharding for Postgres databases.
  • Managed Service: Built on PlanetScale's infrastructure, simplifying operations.
  • High Availability: Designed for high availability (multiple "9's" of availability).

Example prompts

  • “Can you tell me how to prepare my Postgres schema for sharding with Neki?”
  • “What are the best practices for query design when using a sharded Postgres database like Neki?”
  • "How do I get started hosting a Postgres database on PlanetScale using Neki?"

Tips & gotchas

  • Neki is not yet released, so information may be subject to change. Refer to https://www.neki.dev/ for the latest updates.
  • While you can use Neki with other hosting providers, PlanetScale is the recommended platform.