Connect to your database

Silos speaks the standard PostgreSQL wire protocol, so anything that talks to Postgres talks to Silos — psql, your application's driver, your ORM. The only thing you need is a connection string.

Get a connection string

Fetch the connection string for a database with the CLI:

silos db connection-string my-app

It looks like this:

postgres://user:password@db-xxxx.silos.sh/main?sslmode=require

You can also copy it from the database page in the Console.

Connect with the CLI

The fastest way to get an interactive session is the connect command, which opens psql against the database for you:

silos connect my-app

You'll drop straight into a psql prompt:

main=>

Connect with psql directly

If you'd rather use psql yourself, pass the connection string:

psql "postgres://user:password@db-xxxx.silos.sh/main?sslmode=require"

Connect from your app

Because the engine is real PostgreSQL behind a standard wire protocol, your existing drivers and ORMs connect the same way they would to any Postgres — pg (node-postgres), psycopg, SQLAlchemy, Prisma, Drizzle, Kysely, and friends. Point them at the Silos connection string and they work like they always have. See Connecting for driver- and ORM-specific guidance.

Branch endpoints

Each branch of a database gets its own endpoint. The host encodes the branch name:

postgres://user:password@db-xxxx--branchname.silos.sh/main?sslmode=require

That means you can point a preview deployment or a test run at a branch just by swapping the host.

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