render-cli

A guide for installing and using the Render command-line tool. Render is a cloud platform, and a command-line tool lets developers manage its services from a terminal or automation script.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy services, view live logs, connect to Postgres with psql, open SSH shells, validate Render Blueprints, and automate Render tasks in CI/CD.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform common deployment and troubleshooting tasks only through a web dashboard.

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/render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code/render-cli
Any agent
npx skills add render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code --skill render-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code

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 1,506 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00107 $0.01506
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00151

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92a67216566d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

render-cli scanned grade D with 3 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 2d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mv cli_v1.1.0 /usr/local/bin/render

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| **Linux/macOS** | `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/render-oss/cli/refs/heads/main/bin/install.sh \| sh` |

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| **Linux/macOS** | `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/render-oss/cli/refs/heads/main/bin/install.sh \| sh` |
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to render-cli — 0 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/render-cli/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Render CLI

The Render CLI manages services, databases, and deployments from the terminal. Supports interactive use, non-interactive scripting, and CI/CD automation.

When to Use

  • Deploying a service from the terminal or CI/CD
  • Tailing logs in real time
  • Opening psql to a Render Postgres database
  • SSHing into a running service or launching an ephemeral shell
  • Validating a render.yaml Blueprint
  • Scripting Render operations in CI/CD pipelines
  • Installing agent skills for AI coding tools

Installation

Method Command
Homebrew brew update && brew install render
Linux/macOS curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/render-oss/cli/refs/heads/main/bin/install.sh | sh
Direct download GitHub releases
Build from source git clone [email protected]:render-oss/cli.git && cd cli && go build -o render

After install, run render with no arguments to confirm.

Authentication

Interactive (local dev)

render login

Opens the browser to generate a CLI token. Token is saved to ~/.render/cli.yaml. Tokens expire periodically—re-run render login when prompted.

Non-interactive (CI/CD)

export RENDER_API_KEY=rnd_...

API keys do not expire. Generate one from Account Settings > API Keys in the Dashboard. The API key takes precedence over CLI tokens when set.

Set the active workspace:

render workspace set

Command Reference

Core commands

Command Purpose Key flags
render login Authenticate via browser
render workspace set Set active workspace
render services List all services and datastores -o json for scripting
render deploys create [SVC] Trigger a deploy --wait, --commit SHA, --image URL
render deploys list [SVC] List deploys for a service -o json
render logs -r [SVC] View logs --tail for streaming
render psql [DB] Open psql session -c "SQL", -o json, -- --csv
render ssh [SVC] SSH into running instance --ephemeral / -e for isolated shell
render blueprints validate Validate render.yaml Defaults to ./render.yaml
render skills [install|update|list] Manage agent skills
render workspaces List workspaces -o json

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 177 lines · 107 tokens per session scan D 92a67216566d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

render-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,506 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to render-cli, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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