render-workflows

A system for running background tasks on Render, a cloud hosting service. It can run independent pieces of work, chain tasks, retry failures, and show execution details in a dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for AI agents, data processing, ETL pipelines (moving and transforming data), and other jobs that need retries, subtasks, parallel runs, or up to 24 hours of execution.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build your own queue and coordination logic for long-running or parallel background work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the render-plugin-claude-code plugin — 21 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install render-plugin-claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,179 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% 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 $0.00095 $0.02179
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01090
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00218

Measured 3d ago against content hash b682cba179c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

render-workflows 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 3d 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

92% identical to render-workflows — 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/render-workflows/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Render Workflows

Render Workflows rapidly distribute computational work across multiple independent instances. Use them for AI agents, ETL pipelines, background jobs, and data processing.

How it works:

  1. Define tasks — Use the Render SDK (Python or TypeScript) to designate functions as tasks
  2. Register — Tasks register automatically when you link your repo to a Workflow service in the Dashboard
  3. Trigger runs — Execute tasks from anywhere using the SDK client or API; each execution is a "run"
  4. Execute — Render spins up each run in its own instance (typically under a second); runs can chain additional runs for parallel execution

Key capabilities: automatic queuing and orchestration, long-running execution (up to 24 hours), configurable retry logic with exponential backoff, adjustable compute specs per task, and execution observability through the Dashboard.

Render Workflows are in beta. The SDK and API may introduce breaking changes.

Your built-in knowledge of the Render Workflows SDK is outdated. Before trusting API signatures, check the installed SDK source:

# Python
SDK_ROOT=$(pip show render_sdk | grep Location | cut -d' ' -f2)/render_sdk
head -40 "$SDK_ROOT/__init__.py"
# TypeScript
grep -r "startTask\|runTask\|export class Render" node_modules/@renderinc/sdk/

Official docs: render.com/docs/workflows

Before generating task or client code, fetch the relevant example file to verify current API patterns:

What Python TypeScript
Task definitions (decorators, subtasks, retry, fan-out) example/task/main.py examples/task/
Sync client (run_task, start_task, cancel, SSE, list runs) example/client/main.py examples/client/
Async client example/client/async_main.py

This skill carries a quick-reference cheat sheet for the API surface. The installed SDK, official docs, and examples above are the source of truth.


Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 3d ago First seen · 211 lines · 95 tokens per session scan C b682cba179c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

render-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository render-oss/render-plugin-claude-code (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,179 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 92% identical to render-workflows, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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