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
• 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 (coming soon)

$skill-installer render-deploy
$skill-installer render-debug
$skill-installer render-monitor

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

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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

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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?"

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Contributing

Adding a New Skill

1. Create skills/your-skill-name/ with SKILL.md (optional references/, assets/).
2. Add frontmatter in SKILL.md:

   ---
   name: your-skill-name
   description: Brief description
   license: MIT
   compatibility: Prerequisites and requirements
   metadata:
     author: Render
     version: "1.0.0"
     category: category-name
   ---

3. Keep SKILL.md concise; move details to references/.
4. Test locally:

   claude plugin add /path/to/skills

Examples: deploy, debug, monitor.

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Repository Structure

render-skill/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json              # Plugin manifest
│   └── marketplace.json         # Marketplace metadata
├── skills/
│   ├── render-deploy/           # Deployment skill
│   ├── render-debug/            # Debugging skill
│   └── render-monitor/          # Monitoring skill
├── hooks/
│   ├── hooks.json               # Hook configuration
│   └── auto-approve-render.sh   # Auto-approval script
├── scripts/
│   └── install.sh               # Multi-tool installer
├── .mcp.json                    # MCP server configuration
├── README.md                    # This file
├── .gitignore
└── LICENSE

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Support

• Documentation: https://render.com/docs
• Issues: https://github.com/render-oss/skills/issues
• Render Support: support@render.com

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License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.