deploy

What This Skill Does

The deploy skill is a robust interface for the Railway CLI, enabling seamless code deployment directly from your OpenClaw agent environment to your Railway infrastructure. It automates the railway up workflow, ensuring that your local code changes are pushed, built, and deployed with proper metadata. The skill handles complex deployment scenarios, including detached background pushes, CI-integrated builds with live log streaming, and targeted deployments to specific project IDs or services, all while strictly adhering to the mandatory requirement of descriptive commit messages for version control integrity.

Installation

To install this skill, use the following command in your terminal within the OpenClaw CLI: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/dbanys/railway-deploy Ensure you have the Railway CLI authenticated on your host system before usage.

Use Cases

• Production Pushes: Quickly deploying feature updates or hotfixes to your live production environment.
• Debugging Build Issues: Utilizing CI mode to stream build logs, allowing the agent to diagnose and suggest fixes for build-time errors in real-time.
• Multiservice Management: Deploying changes to specific services within a monorepo or a multi-service project.
• Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Integrating with the agent to perform headless deployments without manual intervention.

Example Prompts

• "Deploy the current directory to Railway with a message saying fix authentication race condition."
• "Ship this code to the staging environment and watch the logs until the build finishes."
• "Deploy to project id prj_12345 in production with the message: update dependencies and patch security hole."

Tips & Limitations

• Commit Messages: Always provide a meaningful -m flag. The skill is designed to enforce this practice to maintain a clean deployment history.
• Directory Context: Railway CLI searches upwards for linked projects. If you are in a deep subdirectory, the CLI will naturally find the nearest railway.json file.
• Service Targeting: Use the --service flag for targeted deploys. If you need to change the root directory of a project, use the environment skill first rather than chaining complex directory traversal commands.
• CI Mode Warning: Do not attempt to run railway logs --build after a successful CI deploy; the build logs have already been streamed and captured, and any further debugging should be routed through the deployment skill with the --lines flag for context, not streaming.