Set up Neon MCP in Continue

Manage Neon serverless Postgres projects, branches, databases, and run SQL queries and migrations directly from your AI editor.

Locate the config file

Continue reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

~/.continue/config.yaml

Create this file if it does not already exist.

Add the configuration

Add the following to your Continue config file:

yaml

mcpServers:
  - name: neon-mcp
    command: npx
    args:
      - -y
      - @neondatabase/mcp-server-neon
    env:
      NEON_API_KEY: YOUR_NEON_API_KEY

Set up environment variables

Neon MCP requires the following environment variables:

NEON_API_KEYRequired

Neon API key for authentication

Verify it works

Restart Continue. Neon MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 18 tools available.

This server adds approximately 9,270 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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