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title: "xata"
description: "Agent skills for Xata serverless PostgreSQL, the xata CLI, the Xata HTTP API, and PostgreSQL administration, plus the hosted Xata MCP server."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/xata
last-updated: 2026-09-25
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# xata
Agent skills for Xata serverless PostgreSQL, the xata CLI, the Xata HTTP API, and PostgreSQL administration, plus the hosted Xata MCP server.
- Slug: xata
- Publisher: Xata
- Repository: https://github.com/xataio/skills
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): databases
- Skills: 3 (managing-postgresql, using-xata-api, using-xata-cli)
- MCP servers: 1 (xata)
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-02-04
- Repository last pushed: 2026-08-10
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/xata
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What xata does, in the publisher's words

A collection of agent skills for AI coding assistants, packaged as an Agent Plugin.

A client that implements the standard loads it from a clone of this repository:

The plugin declares Xata's hosted MCP server at https://api.xata.tech/mcp, adding typed tools for organizations, projects, branches, and SQL. It is remote (nothing to install) and speaks Streamable HTTP only.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xataio/skills/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- managing-postgresql: Diagnoses and troubleshoots PostgreSQL database issues including slow queries, high CPU, memory pressure, connection problems, locks, deadlocks, disk space, vacuum, autovacuum, table bloat, index optimization, performance tuning, backup, recovery, pg_dump, replication, replication lag, failover, se…
- using-xata-api: Use the Xata HTTP API to manage organizations, projects, and branches, authenticate with an API key or OAuth, get a branch connection string, and understand pagination and error conventions. Triggers when calling the Xata API directly (curl, fetch, a Postgres driver, or an SDK), scripting against a…
- using-xata-cli: Manages Xata serverless PostgreSQL databases via the xata CLI. Triggers when working with Xata projects, branches, organizations, authentication, schema migrations (pgroll), data cloning, scratch (on-demand fast) branches, branch metrics, branch logs, or AI-powered SQL generation. Handles xata comm…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- xata: transport: streamable-http; url: https://api.xata.tech/mcp

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.