railway

railway is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud platform for deploying applications from GitHub or its command-line tool, with a GraphQL API for managing projects, environments, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps deploy code, synchronise environment variables, create temporary pull-request environments, manage service images, and automate deployments in CI/CD.
Why use it?
It removes much of the manual setup involved in deploying services and keeping staging, production, and pull-request environments aligned.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps deploy code, synchronise environment variables, create temporary pull-request environments, manage service images, and automate deployments in CI/CD.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/railway
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill railway
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 7d ago against content hash 09e5ca4ab3c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

railway 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (examples/basic.py, examples/cli.ts, examples/graphql.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/railway/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Railway API Skill

Quick Start

Railway allows you to deploy code simply by pushing to GitHub or using the CLI. The Railway Public API (GraphQL) allows programmatic management of projects, environments, and deployments.

npm install -g @railway/cli

Common Workflows

Environment Synchronization

Use the Railway CLI (railway run) to pull production or staging environment variables down to your local machine instantly, eliminating the need to manage .env files manually.

Production Patterns

Programmatic Deployments

Use the Railway GraphQL API to dynamically spin up new environments for Pull Requests, deploy specific images, and tear them down once the PR is merged.

Error Recovery

GraphQL errors are returned in the errors array of the response. Implement exponential backoff if you encounter rate limits when rapidly provisioning multiple services.

Security Notes

Generate Project Tokens for API access rather than Personal Tokens when automating CI/CD pipelines to restrict the blast radius to a single project.

Performance Considerations

Railway automatically manages Nixpacks builds. If your build is slow, provide a custom nixpacks.toml or Dockerfile to aggressively cache dependencies.

Testing Guidance

You can test deployment configurations entirely locally using railway up --detach linked to a sandbox project before applying changes to production.

Troubleshooting

If a deployment fails the health check, ensure your application is binding to the correct port (Railway injects the PORT environment variable) and 0.0.0.0 rather than localhost.

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with railway — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
  • Inventing environment variable names
  • Omitting error handling and retry logic

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 7d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 09e5ca4ab3c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

railway is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 541 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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