Upstash Skills are packaged instructions and resources that extend your agent's capabilities across every Upstash SDK: Redis, QStash, Workflow, Vector, Search, Ratelimit, and Upstash Box.

Find the GitHub repository here.

Note

The upstash skill also includes the @upstash/cli reference, so one install is all your agent needs.

Available skills#

Skill	Description
upstash	Combined skill covering all Upstash SDKs and the `upstash` CLI.
upstash-box-js	Sandboxed cloud containers with AI agents, shell, filesystem, and git.
upstash-box-py	The same sandboxed cloud containers, from the Python SDK.
upstash-cli	Drive the Upstash Developer API from the terminal with the `upstash` CLI.
upstash-qstash-js	Serverless messaging and scheduling via HTTP endpoints.
upstash-ratelimit-js	Rate limiting with the Redis Rate Limit TypeScript SDK.
upstash-redis-js	Serverless Redis for caching, sessions, leaderboards, full-text search.
upstash-redis-start	Provision a zero-config, no-signup scratch Redis database for an agent.
upstash-search-js	Full-text search quick starts, core concepts, and TypeScript SDK.
upstash-vector-js	Vector database features, SDK usage, and framework integrations.
upstash-workflow-js	Durable workflows. Define, trigger, and manage multi-step processes.

Install the combined upstash skill unless you only need a single SDK.

Note

The combined upstash skill does not bloat your agent's context. Its top-level SKILL.md only contains references to the underlying per-SDK skill files, so the agent loads just the sections relevant to the task at hand.

Example prompts#

"Set up Upstash Redis in my Next.js app for session caching"
"Create a QStash schedule that calls /api/daily-report every morning at 9am UTC"
"Add rate limiting to my /api/login route, 5 attempts per minute per IP"
"Build a workflow that fans out to 10 parallel steps and waits for all of them"
"Index these product docs into Upstash Vector and wire up semantic search"
"Create a new Redis database named prod-cache in us-east-1 using the CLI"
"List all my Upstash databases and print their monthly costs"

Installation#

The upstash/skills repo is an Agent Skills repo, a Claude Code plugin, a Cursor plugin, an OpenAI Codex plugin, and a DeepSeek Harness bundle, so you can install it with whichever mechanism your agent supports.

Any agent#

The Agent Skills CLI detects the agents on your machine and installs into all of them:

npx skills add upstash/skills

To install only a specific SDK skill, pass its name with --skill:

npx skills add upstash/skills --skill upstash-qstash-js

Add --global (-g) to make the skills available in every project instead of just the current one, and --agent (-a) to target a specific agent.

Per agent#

Claude Code

Install as a plugin from inside Claude Code. See the Claude Code plugin docs for more info.

/plugin marketplace add upstash/skills/plugin install upstash@upstash

Cursor

The plugin is pending review for the official Cursor Marketplace. Once listed, install it from Customize in the Cursor sidebar. Until then, use the Agent Skills CLI:

npx skills add upstash/skills --agent cursor

OpenAI Codex

Install as a plugin with the Codex CLI. See the Codex plugin docs for more info.

codex plugin marketplace add upstash/skillscodex plugin add upstash@upstash

OpenCode

OpenCode loads Agent Skills from .agents/skills/ in a project and ~/.config/opencode/skills/ globally, which is where the Agent Skills CLI writes them for OpenCode:

# Available in every projectnpx skills add upstash/skills --agent opencode --global# Or just this projectnpx skills add upstash/skills --agent opencode

OpenCode exposes the installed skills to the agent through its native skill tool, so only the sub-skill relevant to the task is loaded. For live access to your account, also add the MCP server.

Zed

Zed loads Agent Skills from .agents/skills/ in a project and ~/.agents/skills/ globally, which is where the Agent Skills CLI writes them for Zed:

# Available in every projectnpx skills add upstash/skills --agent zed --global# Or just this projectnpx skills add upstash/skills --agent zed

The skills show up in Zed's Agent Panel, and the agent can load them on its own or via /upstash. Zed's extension marketplace has no channel for skills, so the CLI is the only way to install them; the Zed extension covers the MCP server instead.

Context7 CLI

npx ctx7 skills install upstash/skills

DeepSeek Harness

Installs the skills and the MCP server in one step. Requires pnpm on your PATH.

# Install into a profile (`web` is the one `dsh web` boots)dsh plugin --profile web add github:upstash/skills# Start the harnessdsh web

Then store your Upstash credentials from inside a session so the MCP server can connect. The skills work without them.

/upstash-login YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_API_KEY

Managing resources#

The combined upstash skill includes the full @upstash/cli command reference, so your agent can create databases, publish QStash messages, query Vector indexes, and more straight from the shell. See the CLI page for credentials and command details.