render-migrate-from-heroku

A migration guide for moving a Heroku app to Render. Heroku and Render are cloud platforms that run applications; the guide reads the project files and can use account data when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect files such as a Procfile and dependency lists, plan the replacement services, and optionally create and verify them on Render.
Why use it?
It turns the existing Heroku setup into an equivalent Render setup and identifies information that must be supplied manually.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,052 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% 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 $0.00100 $0.04052
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02026
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00810
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00405

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03634b5a7ad3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

render-migrate-from-heroku scanned grade C with 2 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.

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/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/main/bin/install.sh | sh`
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to render-migrate-from-heroku — 8 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-migrate-from-heroku/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Heroku to Render Migration

Migrate from Heroku to Render by reading local project files first, then optionally enriching with live Heroku data via MCP.

Prerequisites Check

Before starting, verify what's available:

  1. Local project files (required) — confirm the current directory contains a Heroku app (look for Procfile, app.json, package.json, requirements.txt, Gemfile, go.mod, or similar)
  2. Render MCP (recommended) — check if list_services tool is available. Required for MCP Direct Creation (Step 3B) and automated verification (Step 6). Not required for the Blueprint path — the Render CLI and Dashboard handle generation, validation, and deployment.
  3. Heroku MCP (optional) — check if list_apps tool is available

If Render MCP is missing and the user needs it, guide them through setup using the MCP setup guide. If Heroku MCP is missing, note that config var values and add-on plan details will need to be provided manually.

Migration Workflow

Execute steps in order. Present findings to the user and get confirmation before creating any resources.

Step 1: Inventory Heroku App

Gather app details from local files first, then supplement with Heroku MCP if available.

1a. Read local project files (always)

Read these files from the repo to determine runtime, commands, and dependencies:

File What it tells you
Procfile Process types and start commands (web, worker, clock, release)
package.json Node.js runtime, build scripts, framework deps (Next.js, React, etc.)
requirements.txt / Pipfile / pyproject.toml Python runtime, dependencies (Django, Flask, etc.)
Gemfile Ruby runtime, dependencies (Rails, Sidekiq, etc.)
go.mod Go runtime
Cargo.toml Rust runtime
app.json Declared add-ons, env var descriptions, buildpacks
runtime.txt Pinned runtime version
static.json Static site indicator
yarn.lock / pnpm-lock.yaml Package manager (affects build command)

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 313 lines · 100 tokens per session scan C 03634b5a7ad3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

render-migrate-from-heroku is a skill published in the GitHub repository render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 4,052 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 97% identical to render-migrate-from-heroku, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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