deploy-on-basicdeploy

A deployment guide for putting a web app, API, or website online with BasicDeploy, a hosting service that provides a container, database, file storage, and a public HTTPS address.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a BasicDeploy container, transfer and start application code, configure environment variables, and expose the running service online.
Why use it?
It explains the setup detail that commonly makes deployments fail: the app must listen on 0.0.0.0:8080 so the public address can reach it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akacianl/basicdeploy-mcp/deploy-on-basicdeploy
Any agent
npx skills add AkaciaNL/basicdeploy-mcp --skill deploy-on-basicdeploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AkaciaNL/basicdeploy-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 892 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00107 $0.00892
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00446
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash 82c8357a2df3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-on-basicdeploy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/deploy-on-basicdeploy/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy on BasicDeploy

BasicDeploy gives each app a live container with a PostgreSQL database, S3-compatible object storage, and a public HTTPS URL, all wired in. Follow these steps to deploy reliably.

The one rule that breaks deploys

The container's public URL is always routed to port 8080. Your app MUST listen on 0.0.0.0:8080 — not localhost/127.0.0.1, and not 3000/5000/8000. Any other port, or a loopback bind, returns HTTP 503 at the public URL even though the process is running. If the framework reads a PORT env var, set it to 8080.

Steps

  1. (Optional) Check the account: call get_account for plan limits and selectable memory sizes.
  2. Create a container: call create_container (optionally memoryMb). It returns the container id + public URL and auto-provisions a Postgres database and an S3 bucket.
  3. Put the app in the container — two ways:
    • Chat / remote connector (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini): use exec_command. There is no shared filesystem, so deploy_app's tarball path will NOT work here. Write the app files into the container with exec_command (heredoc/echo, or git clone), install deps, then start the server bound to 0.0.0.0:8080.
    • Local stdio server: use deploy_app with a tarball path on your own machine (Dockerfile / package.json / requirements.txt / go.mod at the archive root).
  4. Use the preset env vars — do not hardcode: DATABASE_URL (Postgres) and S3_ENDPOINT / S3_ACCESS_KEY / S3_SECRET_KEY / S3_BUCKET are already set in the container environment. Read them from the environment.
  5. Keep it running: there is no init/supervisor — a process started via exec_command runs only until the container sleeps or restarts and is NOT relaunched. For a long-running web server, run it as the container's main process and enable always-on with set_always_on (free on Pro/Scale; a paid add-on on Free). For a one-shot job, re-run the start command after each wake.
  6. Verify: open the public URL from step 2. A 503 means the app is on the wrong port or bound to localhost — fix it to 0.0.0.0:8080. Use get_logs to debug.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 82c8357a2df3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-on-basicdeploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository AkaciaNL/basicdeploy-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 892 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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