Inside Skydive: building virtual coworkers, powered by Neon

Skydive, a platform for deploying specialized AI coworkers for tasks such as scheduling, recruiting, support, and coding, uses Neon to give agents rapidly provisioned PostgreSQL backends whenever they need durable state beyond their ephemeral cloud sandboxes. Agents can create isolated databases during tasks in about 0.7 seconds, with an average cold start to first row of 1.13 seconds, supporting uses such as receiving webhooks, hosting internal applications, and retaining data for scheduled routines. Skydive’s API command creates a Neon project and main Postgres 18 branch, places a pooled database connection string in the agent’s secret store, and injects it into the sandbox as an environment variable, while its control plane retains only project and branch identifiers rather than connection strings. The system uses isolated resources and access boundaries between agents, scales compute to zero when idle for cost efficiency, and allows agents to manage database sizes and lifecycle settings through Neon’s API, ranging from small 1 GiB deployments to larger configurations with up to 50 GiB of storage and 4 compute units.

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