render-plugins

Render Skills for AI Agents

Skills to deploy, debug, and monitor Render services.

Table of Contents

• Compatibility
• Installation
• Skills
  • render-deploy
  • render-debug
  • render-monitor
  • render-migrate-from-heroku
  • render-workflows
• Auto-Approval Hooks
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
• Contributing
• Repository Structure
• Support
• License

Compatibility

Feature	Claude Code	Codex	OpenCode	Cursor
Skill prompts (SKILL.md)	✅	✅	✅	✅
Render CLI commands	✅	✅	✅	✅
Render MCP tools	✅	✅	✅	✅
Auto-approval hooks	✅	❌	❌	❌

Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

Install to all detected tools:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/render-oss/skills/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Targets: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add render-oss/skills
/plugin install render@skills

OpenAI Codex

$skill-installer render-deploy
$skill-installer render-debug
$skill-installer render-monitor
$skill-installer render-migrate-from-heroku
$skill-installer render-workflows

Manual Installation

Copy each skill directory from skills/ into your tool's skills directory:

• Claude Code (skills mode): ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
• Codex: ~/.codex/skills/<skill-name>/
• OpenCode: ~/.config/opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
• Cursor: ~/.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/

Example (Codex):

cp -R skills/render-deploy ~/.codex/skills/render-deploy
cp -R skills/render-debug ~/.codex/skills/render-debug
cp -R skills/render-monitor ~/.codex/skills/render-monitor
cp -R skills/render-migrate-from-heroku ~/.codex/skills/render-migrate-from-heroku
cp -R skills/render-workflows ~/.codex/skills/render-workflows

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Skills

render-deploy

Deploy via Blueprint (render.yaml) or direct MCP creation.

• Detects common stacks and configures build/start
• Creates services, cron jobs, and databases via MCP
• Verifies deploys with basic health/metrics checks

Full Documentation

render-debug

Find root causes using logs, metrics, and (when needed) database queries.

• Structured log queries via MCP
• CPU/memory/latency diagnostics
• Fix suggestions for common deploy failures

Full Documentation

render-monitor

Check service health, performance metrics, and recent logs.

• Health checks and deploy status
• CPU/memory/latency/bandwidth
• Log filtering and summaries

Full Documentation

render-migrate-from-heroku

Migrate Heroku apps to Render by reading local project files and generating equivalent Render services.

• Reads Procfile, dependency files, and app config to determine runtime and commands
• Generates Blueprint YAML or creates services via Render MCP
• Optionally uses Heroku MCP to enrich with live config vars and add-on details
• Generates database migration commands and verifies deployment health

Full Documentation

render-workflows

Set up, develop, test, and deploy Render Workflows.

• Scaffolds a workflows/ directory via CLI or manual setup (Python and TypeScript)
• Guides task configuration with retries, subtasks, and fan-out patterns
• Local development with render workflows dev
• Deploys workflow services via Dashboard
• Constraints, pricing, and troubleshooting reference

Full Documentation

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Auto-Approval Hooks

Auto-approves safe, read-only CLI operations:

• Listing services: render services list, render services -o json
• Reading logs: render logs -r, render logs --raw
• Checking workspaces: render workspace current, render workspace list

Operations that modify infrastructure still require permission:

• Deployments (render deploy)
• Service restarts (render services restart)
• Service creation/deletion (render services create, render services delete)
• Configuration changes (render services update)
• Workspace changes (render workspace set)

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Prerequisites

• Render MCP tools configured with an API key
• RENDER_API_KEY environment variable
• Git repository pushed to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket (for deploys)
• Optional: Render CLI for streaming logs/SSH

Quick Start

Deploy: "Deploy my application to Render"
Debug: "Debug my Render deployment"
Monitor: "Is my Render service healthy?"
Migrate: "Migrate my Heroku app to Render" Workflows: "Set up Render Workflows in my project" Add tasks: "Add a new workflow task with retries"

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