---
title: "Deploy Closedhand"
description: "A personal AI assistant you actually own, in your own Railway account."
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/closedhand
---

# Deploy Closedhand

A personal AI assistant you actually own, in your own Railway account.

**[Deploy Closedhand on Railway](https://railway.com/template/closedhand)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/closedhand/manifest.json

- **Creator:** notnotjim's Projects
- **Category:** AI/ML

## Template content

### db

- **Image:** pgvector/pgvector:pg16
- **Start command:** `docker-entrypoint.sh postgres -c log_connections=on -c log_disconnections=on`

### webapp

- **Image:** ghcr.io/notnotjim/closedhand-webapp:latest
- **Health check:** /health
- **Public domain:** Yes

### sandbox

- **Image:** ghcr.io/notnotjim/closedhand-sandbox:latest

### bot

- **Image:** ghcr.io/notnotjim/closedhand-bot:latest
- **Health check:** /health

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Closedhand on Railway

A personal AI assistant you actually own. It lives in your chat apps and works with anything you connect. Closedhand is free and open source, and everything it keeps stays in this project in your own Railway account.

## About Hosting Closedhand

This sets up the web app, the bot, Closedhand's sandbox computer and a Postgres database, each with its own storage.

## Common Use Cases

- **Moving a Closedhand you already run:** press Go always-on in its Settings. It sets all of this up for you and moves everything across.
- **Starting fresh:** open the webapp's address and type the setup code from the webapp service's Variables (SETUP_CODE).

## Dependencies for Closedhand Hosting

### Deployment Dependencies

Source: [github.com/notnotjim/Closedhand](https://github.com/notnotjim/Closedhand)

### Implementation Details

The images come from GitHub's container registry and update overnight.

## Why Deploy Closedhand on Railway?

So it's on all the time, in your own account.


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