render-disks

render-disks is a skill for Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,378 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of render-disks, MIT.

A guide to persistent disks on Render, which keep files available across service restarts and deployments. Without one, files written to the local filesystem are temporary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to store uploads or CMS media, run a database or stateful system on local storage, manage mount paths and snapshots, or transfer disk files.
Why use it?
It helps avoid losing uploads, media, or self-managed data when a service is redeployed. It also explains the limits that disks place on scaling and deployment availability.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to store uploads or CMS media, run a database or stateful system on local storage, manage mount paths and snapshots, or transfer disk files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/render-disks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill render-disks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,378 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.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.01378
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00689
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00138

Measured 6d ago against content hash 662cfd8c0d8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

render-disks 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 6d ago.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to render-disks — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cloud-infra/codex/render-disks/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Render Persistent Disks

Persistent disks are high-performance SSDs you attach to a Render service to preserve filesystem changes across deploys and restarts. Without a disk, services have an ephemeral filesystem—all local file changes are lost on every deploy.

When to Use

  • Storing file uploads, CMS media, or user-generated content
  • Running a self-managed database (MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse) on Render
  • Deploying stateful infrastructure (Elasticsearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mattermost)
  • Understanding why scaling is blocked or zero-downtime deploys are disabled
  • Restoring data from an automatic disk snapshot

For managed databases, prefer Render Postgres (render-postgres) or Key Value (render-keyvalue) over self-managed alternatives on disk.

Critical Constraints

These constraints affect architecture decisions. Understand them before attaching a disk:

Constraint Impact
Single instance only Cannot scale horizontally (numInstances must be 1, autoscaling not available)
No zero-downtime deploys Old instance stops before new instance starts (brief downtime on each deploy)
Runtime access only Disk is not available during buildCommand or preDeployCommand (those run on separate compute)
Not accessible from other services Only the attached service can read/write the disk
Not available on cron jobs Attach to a web service, private service, or background worker instead
Not available on one-off jobs One-off jobs run on separate compute without disk access
Can increase size, cannot decrease Start small and grow as needed

Setup

Dashboard

  1. Go to your service's Disks page
  2. Set the mount path (absolute path where persistent data is stored)
  3. Choose a size in GB
  4. Click Add disk — triggers a new deploy

Blueprint

services:
  - type: web
    name: cms
    runtime: node
    plan: starter
    region: oregon
    buildCommand: npm ci && npm run build
    startCommand: npm start
    disk:
      name: cms-data
      mountPath: /var/data
      sizeGB: 10

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 6d ago First seen · 150 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 662cfd8c0d8a

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render-disks is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,378 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to render-disks, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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