central-station_skill

Overview

This skill lets you search and browse Railway's Central Station — the community platform for threads, discussions, and support questions. Use it to find existing threads, recent activity, trending or pinned discussions, and full thread content formatted as markdown. It helps surface community solutions and feature requests before creating a new thread.

How this skill works

The skill queries Central Station via provided GraphQL endpoints and an LLM data export that contains full thread content. It can fetch recent, trending, pinned, or topic-filtered threads, retrieve a thread by slug, and return thread markdown for clean reading. For deep content searches, it uses the LLM data export to filter thread bodies locally and present matching items with status, topic, and links.

When to use it

• When a user asks to search Central Station or find community threads
• When looking for recent support questions, trending topics, or pinned announcements
• To find threads about specific topics (deploys, databases, domains, etc.)
• When the user asks what people are asking about a specific issue
• Before creating a new thread — to check for existing solutions

Best practices

• Prefer the LLM data export for keyword searches across full thread content
• Use topic filters (questions, feedback, community, etc.) to narrow results
• Return thread title, topic, status, a short summary, and a direct link
• If no results, suggest checking Railway docs or creating a new thread
• When a technical fix is identified, recommend the appropriate operational skill

Example use cases

• Find recent threads about Postgres connection errors and their resolutions
• List trending community questions to surface common pain points
• Fetch a specific thread by slug and present it as markdown for readability
• Search all thread content for mentions of a feature request or bug
• Show pinned or important threads related to billing or outages