Upstash Agent Skills

Connect your AI coding agent to Upstash. This repo ships skills (per-SDK instruction packs your agent loads on demand) and the plugin manifests that install them — and now the Upstash MCP server — into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Zed, and any Agent Skills–compatible client.

The Upstash agent surface

• Skills — packaged instructions and CLI references for each Upstash SDK (Redis, QStash, Workflow, Vector, Search, Box, Blob, Ratelimit). No credentials needed. → docs

• MCP server — live tools to query, debug, and manage your account. Two ways to run it:

  • Remote (hosted) — https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp, streamable HTTP, authenticated with OAuth (browser consent, on first use) or a developer API key header. Nothing to install.
  • Local (stdio) — @upstash/mcp-server run with npx, authenticated with your account email + a developer API key.

  → docs

• New here? Start with the AI Tools overview, and see Install by agent for full per-client setup.

What's in this repo

• skills/upstash-*/ — the per-SDK skill sources (each has a SKILL.md). Edit these.
• skills/upstash/ — the combined skill, generated from all the sources by npm run build. Never hand-edit it (see AGENTS.md).
• Plugin manifests — .claude-plugin/, .codex-plugin/, .cursor-plugin/, gemini-extension.json, and the portable Agent Plugins plugin.json + mcp.json. They make the repo installable as a plugin/extension. These plugins now bundle the remote Upstash MCP server (OAuth), so installing the plugin sets up the skills and the MCP in one step — no separate MCP configuration for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI.
• zed-extension/ — a Zed MCP server extension (Rust → Wasm).
• assets/ — branding used on the plugin card, read by Codex (interface.logo / interface.composerIcon) and Cursor (logo). Claude Code, Gemini CLI and the Agent Plugins schema have no icon field.

Available Skills

Skill	Description
upstash	Combined skill covering all Upstash SDKs and CLIs.
upstash-blob-js	S3-compatible object storage with direct browser uploads and signed URLs.
upstash-box-cli	Drive a sandboxed cloud container from the terminal with the box 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 — 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

Installing through a plugin (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI) sets up both the skills and the remote MCP server — approve the MCP's OAuth consent on first use. The skills-only installers (Agent Skills CLI, OpenCode, Zed) install skills; add the MCP server separately if you want live account access.

For the full, up-to-date per-client instructions, see Install by agent.

Claude Code (skills + MCP)

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add upstash/skills

# Install the plugin
/plugin install upstash@upstash

OpenAI Codex (skills + MCP)

# Add the marketplace
codex plugin marketplace add upstash/skills

# Install the plugin
codex plugin add upstash@upstash

Cursor (skills + MCP)

We are waiting for this plugin to be accepted to the official Cursor Marketplace. Once listed, it can be installed from Customize in the Cursor sidebar, and it brings both the skills and the MCP server.

Gemini CLI (skills + MCP)

Gemini CLI loads this repo as an extension — the manifest is gemini-extension.json at the repo root; every skill under skills/ and the remote MCP server are picked up automatically:

gemini extensions install https://github.com/upstash/skills

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 project
npx skills add upstash/skills --agent opencode --global

# Or just this project
npx skills add upstash/skills --agent opencode

OpenCode exposes the installed skills to the agent through its native skill tool, so the agent loads only the sub-skill relevant to the task at hand. For live access to your account (create databases, inspect QStash logs, and so on), add the MCP server as well.

Zed

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

# Available in every project
npx skills add upstash/skills --agent zed --global

# Or just this project
npx skills add upstash/skills --agent zed

The skills then show up in Zed's Agent Panel, and the agent can load them on its own or via /upstash. Zed's extension marketplace carries languages, themes, debuggers, snippets, and MCP servers, but has no channel for skills, so the CLI is the only way to install them. The Zed extension in zed-extension/ covers the MCP server instead.

Context7 CLI

npx ctx7 skills install upstash/skills

Agent Skills CLI

npx skills add upstash/skills

DeepSeek Harness

Installs the skills and the Upstash 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 harness
dsh web

Then store your Upstash credentials from inside a session:

/upstash-login YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_API_KEY

Credentials are stored in ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml and the MCP server connects as soon as both are set. The skills work without them.

MCP Server

Installing a plugin above already wires up the remote MCP server. Set it up on its own when you use a skills-only installer (OpenCode, Zed) or a client without a plugin.

Remote (recommended) — no install; OAuth on first use, or pass a developer API key header (email:API_KEY) for headless/CI. Create a key at Console → Account → API Keys.

Claude Code

# OAuth (browser consent on first /mcp use)
claude mcp add --transport http upstash https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp

# Or a developer API key, no browser
claude mcp add --transport http upstash https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer you@example.com:YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (add headers with the Authorization line for the API-key path):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upstash": { "url": "https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp" }
  }
}

OpenCode

Add to opencode.json, or ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json to make it available everywhere. See the OpenCode MCP docs.

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "upstash": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}

Scope which product tools the agent sees by appending ?features= to the URL — comma-separated from redis, qstash_workflow, vector, search (omitted means all), e.g. https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp?features=redis,qstash_workflow.

Local (stdio) — run @upstash/mcp-server yourself, authenticated with your email + API key. Read-only keys are supported (the server then disables every state-changing tool).

Claude Code

claude mcp add upstash -- npx -y @upstash/mcp-server@latest --email YOUR_EMAIL --api-key YOUR_API_KEY

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upstash": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@upstash/mcp-server@latest", "--email", "YOUR_EMAIL", "--api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

OpenCode

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "upstash": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": ["npx", "-y", "@upstash/mcp-server@latest", "--email", "YOUR_EMAIL", "--api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY"],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}

Zed

This repo ships a Zed MCP extension in zed-extension/. Once it is accepted into the Zed extension registry, install Upstash Redis MCP Server from Settings → AI → MCP Servers → Add Server → Install from Extensions, and Zed will prompt for upstash_email and upstash_api_key. Until then, install it as a dev extension (zed: install dev extension, then pick the zed-extension/ directory).

To skip the extension entirely, add the server to your Zed settings by hand (zed: open settings file):

{
  "context_servers": {
    "upstash": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@upstash/mcp-server@latest", "--email", "YOUR_EMAIL", "--api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Making changes

Updating an existing skill

1. Edit the files in the individual skill folder (e.g. skills/upstash-qstash-js/).
2. Run npm run build to regenerate skills/upstash/.
3. Commit both the source changes and the regenerated output.

Adding a new skill

1. Create a new folder under skills/ (e.g. skills/upstash-redis-js/).
2. Add a SKILL.md with the standard frontmatter (name and description) and any supporting files.
3. Run npm run build — the new skill will be picked up automatically.
4. Commit everything.

Changing the combined skill header

The frontmatter and introductory text for skills/upstash/SKILL.md comes from scripts/header.md. Edit that file, then run npm run build.

Updating the plugin version

When making a release, bump the version field in every manifest that carries one: plugin.json (the portable Agent Plugins manifest), .claude-plugin/plugin.json, .cursor-plugin/plugin.json, .codex-plugin/plugin.json, and gemini-extension.json.

The Zed extension

zed-extension/ is a Zed MCP server extension that runs @upstash/mcp-server. It is a Rust crate compiled to WebAssembly, and it is only about the MCP server — Zed extensions cannot carry skills.

cd zed-extension
rustup target add wasm32-wasip2   # once
cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasip2

Test a local build with zed: install dev extension and point Zed at zed-extension/. Open Zed on a folder while testing — context servers are project-scoped, so with no project open (or one whose worktree fails to open) the server never starts and the panel sits on "Connecting Server..." until Zed's 60s timeout.

To publish or update it, open a PR against zed-industries/extensions that adds this repo as a submodule under extensions/mcp-server-upstash and an entry in extensions.toml:

[mcp-server-upstash]
submodule = "extensions/mcp-server-upstash"
path = "zed-extension"
version = "0.1.0"

The version there has to match version in zed-extension/extension.toml, so bump both together. zed-extension/LICENSE is a symlink to the repo's MIT license — Zed requires a license at the extension path, not just at the repo root, and rejects the PR in CI without one.

Zed plans to deprecate MCP server extensions in favor of the official MCP registry. If that lands, publishing @upstash/mcp-server to registry.modelcontextprotocol.io replaces this extension.

Scripts

Script	Command	Description
build	npm run build	Regenerates skills/upstash/ from all individual skills.
check	npm run check	Runs the build, then fails if there is a git diff — used in CI to ensure the generated output is committed.

CI

The GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/check.yml) runs npm run check on every push and PR. If you forget to run npm run build before pushing, CI will fail.