railway

railway is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 87 tokens per session (3,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment workflow for Railway, a managed platform that builds and runs applications without requiring you to manage servers or operating systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy a repository, provision a managed database, share variables between services, attach storage, or fix an application that builds but does not serve.
Why use it?
It helps connect your repository, services, databases, environment variables, volumes, networking, and domains correctly on Railway.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to deploy a repository, provision a managed database, share variables between services, attach storage, or fix an application that builds but does not serve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill railway
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 55
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00087 $0.03037
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00304

Measured 9d ago against content hash a258732503c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

railway scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

bash <(curl -fsSL railway.com/install.sh) # shell installer
skills/railway/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Railway — ship a repo to a managed PaaS

Railway is an opinionated PaaS: connect a GitHub repo or run railway up, and it builds your code (Railpack by default, or your Dockerfile), runs the container, networks it, and hands you a domain. You manage services, environments, variables, volumes, and databases — not servers, not an OS. This skill makes you fast and correct on Railway's specific surface, not generic deploy theory.

repo / `railway up`  →  Railpack (or Dockerfile) build  →  container runs (binds 0.0.0.0:$PORT)
   →  variables + reference vars injected  →  private net (*.railway.internal) + public domain

Is Railway the right target?

Settle this before touching config. If the user named the platform, honor it and route.

Want Use Why / route
Push a repo, get a built+running app with zero ops Railway (this skill) Managed PaaS, Railpack build, by-the-minute billing
render.yaml Blueprint, free static sites, their dashboard model render Different PaaS — route to the render skill
fly.toml, Firecracker microVMs, fly machine, multi-region edge fly-io Railway has no fly machine equivalent — route to fly-io
Self-host the PaaS on your own Hetzner/DO box coolify Railway is fully managed; Coolify is BYO-server
Raw VPS, you manage the OS hetzner / digitalocean IaaS, not PaaS
Platform-agnostic release strategy (rolling, blue-green theory) deployment This skill is Railway mechanics, not strategy

The 60-second path

# Install the CLI (pick one). npm form needs Node 16+.
brew install railway                          # macOS
npm i -g @railway/cli                          # any Node 16+ host
bash <(curl -fsSL railway.com/install.sh)      # shell installer

railway login            # opens browser; for CI use RAILWAY_TOKEN instead (no login)
railway init             # create a NEW project from this dir, OR:
railway link             # link this dir to an EXISTING project/service
railway up               # build + deploy the current dir; streams build/deploy logs

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 246 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A a258732503c3

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railway is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (82 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 3,037 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.