--- title: Introducing the New Neon API Command | daily.dev description: Neon has added an `api` command to its CLI that acts as an authenticated passthrough to the full Neon REST API. This solves two problems for AI agents: feature... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-neon-api-command-jmbngxduz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing the New Neon API Command | daily.dev og:description: Neon has added an `api` command to its CLI that acts as an authenticated passthrough to the full Neon REST API. This solves two problems for AI agents: feature... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-neon-api-command-jmbngxduz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JMbngXDuZ.png og:image:alt: Introducing the New Neon API Command og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing the New Neon API Command **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 4 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Neon has added an `api` command to its CLI that acts as an authenticated passthrough to the full Neon REST API. This solves two problems for AI agents: feature lag (human-friendly CLIs only expose a subset of API endpoints) and secret management risk (agents calling raw APIs must handle tokens manually, risking leaks). By routing API calls through the CLI, authentication is handled transparently in the background, agents always have access to the latest endpoints, and they can discover available operations via a built-in manifest command. The pattern was inspired by Vercel's CLI, adapted to support Neon's nested JSON payloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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