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Do not create a new project.\n\nReference Neon branching documentation: https://neon.com/llms/manage-branches.txt\n\n**Use the Neon API directly. Do not use neonctl.**\n\n## Core Workflow\n\n1. **Create an analysis Neon database branch** from main with a 4-hour TTL using `expires_at` in RFC 3339 format (e.g., `2025-07-15T18:02:16Z`)\n2. **Check for pg_stat_statements extension**:\n   ```sql\n   SELECT EXISTS (\n     SELECT 1 FROM pg_extension WHERE extname = 'pg_stat_statements'\n   ) as extension_exists;\n   ```\n   If not installed, enable the extension and let the user know you did so.\n3. **Identify slow queries** on the analysis Neon database branch:\n   ```sql\n   SELECT\n     query,\n     calls,\n     total_exec_time,\n     mean_exec_time,\n     rows,\n     shared_blks_hit,\n     shared_blks_read,\n     shared_blks_written,\n     shared_blks_dirtied,\n     temp_blks_read,\n     temp_blks_written,\n     wal_records,\n     wal_fpi,\n     wal_bytes\n   FROM pg_stat_statements\n   WHERE query NOT LIKE '%pg_stat_statements%'\n   AND query NOT LIKE '%EXPLAIN%'\n   ORDER BY mean_exec_time DESC\n   LIMIT 10;\n   ```\n   This will return some Neon internal queries, so be sure to ignore those, investigating only queries that the user's app would be causing.\n4. **Analyze with EXPLAIN** and other Postgres tools to understand bottlenecks\n5. **Investigate the codebase** to understand query context and identify root causes\n6. **Test optimizations**:\n   - Create a new test Neon database branch (4-hour TTL)\n   - Apply proposed optimizations (indexes, query rewrites, etc.)\n   - Re-run the slow queries and measure improvements\n   - Delete the test Neon database branch\n7. **Provide recommendations** via PR with clear before/after metrics showing execution time, rows scanned, and other relevant improvements\n8. **Clean up** the analysis Neon database branch\n\n**CRITICAL: Always run analysis and tests on Neon database branches, never on the main Neon database branch.** Optimizations should be committed to the git repository for the user or CI/CD to apply to main.\n\nAlways distinguish between **Neon database branches** and **git branches**. Never refer to either as just \"branch\" without the qualifier.\n\n## File Management\n\n**Do not create new markdown files.** Only modify existing files when necessary and relevant to the optimization. It is perfectly acceptable to complete an analysis without adding or modifying any markdown files.\n\n## Key Principles\n\n- Neon is Postgres—assume Postgres compatibility throughout\n- Always test on Neon database branches before recommending changes\n- Provide clear before/after performance metrics with diffs\n- Explain reasoning behind each optimization recommendation\n- Clean up all Neon database branches after completion\n- Prioritize zero-downtime optimizations\n","description":"Identify and fix slow Postgres queries automatically using Neon's branching workflow. 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