Ship with your agents

What a session looks like

1. Set up

   You: Install railway agent tools using railway.com

   • curl -fsSL agents.railway.com | sh: cli · skill · mcp
   • railway whoami: signed in

   Agent: Railway is set up: the CLI, the skill and MCP, signed in as you.

2. Deploy the app

   You: Deploy this app to Railway and give it a domain

   • create_project my-app: created
   • railway up: deployed
   • generate_domain web: domain added

   Agent: Done. Web is live at my-app.up.railway.app.

3. Add Postgres

   You: Add my api service, with a Postgres database

   • create_service api: created
   • railway up ./api -s api: deployed
   • deploy_template postgres: deployed
   • add_reference_variable api: DATABASE_URL set

   Agent: Done. Api and Postgres are in. Api is redeploying.

4. Fix the crash

   You: The api just crashed. Why?

   • railway-agent "why did api crash?": pg not installed
   • edit api/package.json: pg → dependencies
   • railway up ./api -s api: deployed

   Agent: Fixed. Pg was only a dev dependency. I moved it and redeployed.

5. Check production

   You: Is everything running in production now?

   • environment_status production: 3 active
   • list_deployments api: success · 1 min ago

   Agent: Yes. All 3 services are running, right on track.