Upstash Skills

Work with any Upstash product, SDK, or tool, including serverless Redis (caching, sessions, leaderboards, key-value storage), Ratelimit…

Context cost
90.2k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
78 files · 373.5 kB1 script among them — read before you run
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Work with any Upstash product, SDK, or tool, including serverless Redis (caching, sessions, leaderboards, key-value storage), Ratelimit (rate limiting and throttling), QStash (message queue, cron schedules, background jobs), Workflow (durable long-running functions), Vector (vector database for embeddings, semantic search, and RAG), Search (full-text and semantic search), Box (sandboxed cloud containers for AI agents, TypeScript/JavaScript and Python), Blob (serverless S3-compatible file storage with direct browser uploads), the Upstash CLI, and no-signup scratch Redis for agents.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

cloudredis
Filed under

Cloud & DevOps

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md12.3 kB · preview
--- name: upstash license: MIT metadata: author: Upstash homepage: https://upstash.com ---
10# Upstash Skills
11
12This skill combines documentation for all Upstash SDKs. Pick the relevant sub-skill below.
13
14If Upstash MCP tools are available in this session, prefer them for account and data operations —
15creating and inspecting databases, indexes and Blob buckets, running Redis commands, reading stats,
16logs and the DLQ, and remote work in a Box (shell, browser, git, preview URLs, PRs, screenshots
17uploaded to Blob; see upstash-box-remote-work). The sub-skills below are for writing application code; reach for
18upstash-cli only when there is no MCP or the work is inherently shell work.
19
20## [upstash-blob-js](upstash-blob-js/overview.md)
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22Work with the @upstash/blob TypeScript/JavaScript SDK for S3-compatible object storage with direct browser uploads, presigned URLs, multipart, and signed reads. Use when storing files or blobs, uploading avatars, images, videos, attachments or user documents, letting a browser upload straight to storage without proxying bytes through a server, generating public or time-limited signed URLs, serving private files, streaming large files with pause and resume, setting cache headers on stored objects, or reaching an S3-compatible bucket from the AWS SDK.
23
24## [upstash-box-cli](upstash-box-cli/overview.md)
25
26Drive an Upstash Box (a remote sandboxed workspace) from the terminal with the box CLI. Use when asked to run commands, edit files, clone repos, run builds or tests, publish a public URL, browse or screenshot a page, open a pull request or issue with a screenshot attached, schedule recurring work, run an AI agent, or do any work inside a box rather than on this machine.
27
28## [upstash-box-js](upstash-box-js/overview.md)
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,715 words
Files78
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈200
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
89,950
on trigger
The instruction body and 77 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
45.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

90.2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

78 files, 373.5 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 1 script in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md12.3 kB
  • upstash-box-js/overview.md33.2 kB
  • upstash-box-py/overview.md34.8 kB
  • upstash-cli/overview.md9.6 kB
  • upstash-qstash-js/overview.md2.8 kB
  • upstash-ratelimit-js/algorithms.md2.7 kB
  • upstash-ratelimit-js/features.md3.2 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 1 script beside the text, so the bundle is 78 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Upstash Skills · 90.2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/upstash-skills/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/upstash-skills" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/upstash-skills ] || { mv .claude/skills/upstash-skills "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/upstash-skills" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/upstash-skills"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add upstash/upstash-skills

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/upstash-skills/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/upstash-skills/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/upstash-skills" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/upstash-skills ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/upstash-skills "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/upstash-skills" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/upstash-skills" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/upstash-skills/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as upstash in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, upstash-skills.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceupstash/upstash-skills

Versions

Its author publishes no version number, so there is nothing here to pin to: what you install is the folder as it stands today. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

Pinning

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