# Agent skills for backend services, Lakebase Search GA, Postgres version updates, and more

## Agent skills for Neon Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway

[Neon Agent Skills](/guides/ai-agents-on-neon-ai-agent-skills) are instruction files that teach AI coding assistants how to work with Neon. The collection now includes skills for [Neon Functions](/guides/neon-functions-index), [Object Storage](/guides/object-storage-index), and [AI Gateway](/guides/ai-gateway-index), the backend services currently in **private preview**.

To install all Neon agent skills:

```bash
npx skills add neondatabase/agent-skills
```

For the complete list of skills and other install options, see the [Agent Skills documentation](/guides/ai-agents-on-neon-ai-agent-skills).

## Lakebase Search is now available to all users

[Lakebase Search](/guides/postgres-ai-lakebase-search) is now available to all Neon users on Postgres 16+. Two extensions, [`lakebase_vector`](/guides/postgres-extensions-lakebase-vector) and [`lakebase_text`](/guides/postgres-extensions-lakebase-text), bring **vector**, **keyword**, and **hybrid** search into Postgres, so you can run semantic RAG, exact-term lookups, and combined rankings without a separate search stack.

First, [enable the shared preload libraries and restart your compute](/guides/postgres-ai-lakebase-search-get-started). Then install the extensions and query with the same operators you already know from `pgvector` and full-text search:

```sql
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS lakebase_vector CASCADE;
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS lakebase_text CASCADE;

-- Semantic: nearest neighbors by embedding
SELECT title FROM documents ORDER BY embedding <=> $query_vector LIMIT 5;

-- Keyword: BM25 relevance with top-K pushdown
SELECT title FROM documents
ORDER BY body_tsv <@> to_bm25query(to_tsvector('english', 'vector search'), 'documents_bm25')
LIMIT 5;
```

For production search, combine both with **Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)**: merge top vector and BM25 candidates into one score. The [get started guide](/guides/postgres-ai-lakebase-search-get-started#dt-step-combine-results-with-hybrid-search) includes a full hybrid example in TypeScript.

Why Lakebase Search on Neon:

- **`lakebase_ann`**: drop-in `pgvector` compatibility; scales to 1B+ vectors; index builds 50-100× faster than HNSW
- **`lakebase_bm25`**: standard `tsvector` types; BM25 ranking GIN can't do natively
- **Scale-to-zero**: indexes live in storage, so they're ready immediately after a cold start; branches copy indexes without rebuilds

See the [Lakebase Search overview](/guides/postgres-ai-lakebase-search) to get started.

## Postgres version updates

We updated supported Postgres versions to [14.23](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/14.23/), [15.18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/15.18/), [16.14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/16.14/), [17.10](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/17.10/), and [18.4](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.4/), respectively.

When a new minor version is available on Neon, it is applied the next time your compute restarts. For more about how we handle Postgres version upgrades, refer to our [Postgres version support policy](/guides/postgres-postgresql-postgres-version-support).

## Ephemeral database branches for Vercel Eve agent sessions

In [June, Vercel introduced Eve](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-eve), an open-source, filesystem-first framework for durable agents. Sessions checkpoint as they run, can last for days, and pause for human approval before resuming. Eve includes a sandbox, evals, and built-in channels.

We published a guide that pairs Eve with Neon branching. The integration is a small hook in `agent/hooks/provision-branch.ts`: create a branch when a session starts, delete it when the session ends. Agent tools read the branch connection URI and work against an isolated copy of your production schema.

```typescript
export default defineHook({
  events: {
    async "session.started"(_event, ctx) {
      const branch = await createBranch(`eve-${ctx.session.id.slice(0, 12)}`);
      dbBranch.update(() => ({ connectionUri: branch.connectionUri }));
    },
  },
});
```

Read the guide: [Running Vercel Eve agents and evals on disposable Neon branches](https://neon.com/guides/vercel-eve-neon)

## Related pages

- [AI tools for Agents](./ai-agents-on-neon-index.md)
- [APIs & SDKs](./apis-sdks-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Integrating with Neon](./building-on-neon-index.md)
- [Lakebase Postgres](./postgres-index.md)
- [Managed Better Auth](./auth-index.md)
- [More](./more-index.md)
- [Neon AI Gateway](./ai-gateway-index.md)
- [Neon community](./community-index.md)
- [Neon documentation](./neon-docs-index.md)

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