railway

railway is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 15 tokens per session (321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A platform that deploys applications and databases directly from a code repository. It can run several services, such as a frontend, backend, and worker, from one repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy web apps, background workers, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, scheduled tasks, and multiple services in a monorepo.
Why use it?
It removes much of the infrastructure setup needed for a small application. Private networking lets services communicate without exposing every service publicly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to deploy web apps, background workers, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, scheduled tasks, and multiple services in a monorepo.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-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 G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill railway
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 321 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 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 $0.00015 $0.00321
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 9d ago against content hash 33c682c88fe9, 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 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 9d 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.

skills/devops/railway/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Railway

Railway is a modern PaaS that offers "Infrastructure from Code". It introspects your repo and deploys it. Can also deploy Databases (Postgres, Redis, Mongo).

When to Use

  • Heroku Alternative: Cheaper and more modern interface than Heroku.
  • Databases: Spining up a private network with a Service and a Redis/Postgres DB is 1 click.
  • Monorepos: Excellent support for building multiple services (frontend, backend, worker) from one repo.

Quick Start (CLI)

railway login
railway init
railway up

Core Concepts

Services

Apps or Databases.

Canvas

A visual graph of your infrastructure showing usage and relationships.

Config as Code

railway.toml allows you to define build commands and deploy health checks.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use Private Networking: Services communicate over private IP (IPv6). Explicitly expose only what needs public access.
  • Use Templates: One-click deploy "PostHog", "Metabase", "Cronicle".
  • Use Priority Boarding: For critical production apps, upgrade the plan to ensure capacity.

Don't:

  • Don't rely on ephemeral disk: Just like Heroku, filesystem is reset on deploy.

References

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 · 53 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 33c682c88fe9

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railway is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 321 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.