railway-docs_skill

Overview

This skill fetches up-to-date Railway documentation to answer questions about Railway features, behavior, and pricing. It recognizes docs.railway.com URLs and converts them to markdown endpoints to retrieve the latest content. Use it to ensure answers reflect the current official docs rather than relying on memory.

How this skill works

When invoked, the skill checks for docs.railway.com links or Railway-related queries, then fetches the corresponding .md pages from Railway’s documentation endpoints. It reads targeted pages (projects, deployments, volumes, CLI, pricing, etc.) and summarizes or cites the relevant sections to produce accurate responses. The skill prefers the LLM-optimized sources and the llms.txt index for comprehensive coverage.

When to use it

• User asks how a Railway feature works (projects, deployments, volumes, variables).
• User shares a docs.railway.com URL and expects a summary or explanation.
• You need current pricing, limits, or behavioral details that may have changed.
• Before answering Railway questions from memory to avoid stale info.
• When converting a docs URL to a fetchable .md endpoint for precise content.

Best practices

• Always convert docs.railway.com links to their .md equivalents before fetching.
• Prioritize the Full docs and llms.txt index listed by Railway for authoritative content.
• Cite or paraphrase specific doc sections when giving technical instructions.
• Check changelog or blog pages for recent behavioral or policy changes.
• If docs are ambiguous, fetch related guide and reference pages rather than guessing.

Example use cases

• User pastes https://docs.railway.com/guides/volumes and asks how volumes persist data.
• Explain how Railway handles environment variables and secrets using the variables guide.
• Compare deployment workflows by fetching deployments.md and summarizing CI/CD steps.
• Retrieve latest pricing details from reference/pricing.md for cost estimates.
• Walk a user through the CLI commands by pulling reference/cli-api.md and showing examples.