Railway MCP Server integrates Claude with Railway.app's cloud infrastructure platform, enabling autonomous deployment and management of containerized applications, databases, and web services through natural language commands. Key capabilities: - Deploy services directly from GitHub repositories or Docker images to Railway's managed cloud infrastructure - Manage environment variables, service configurations, and networking settings across projects - Monitor and control deployments with service listing, restart capabilities, and deployment status tracking - Handle complete project lifecycle operations including creation, detailed inspection, and deletion - Provision and manage persistent volumes for stateful applications and data storage - Database template support with automated provisioning workflows (in development)

Railway MCP Server

  

Let Claude and other MCP clients manage your Railway.app infrastructure. Deploy services, manage variables, and monitor deployments - all through natural language.

Please Note: This is under development and not all features are available yet. 🚧

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for integrating with the Railway.app platform.

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Table of Contents

Features • Installation • Available Tools • Example Workflows • Security • Troubleshooting • Contributing

Features

| Status | Meaning | |--------|---------| | ✅ | Complete | | 🚧🔨⏳ | Being Built or Needs Testing | | ❌ | Not Built at the moment |

Installation

Prerequisites

#### Quick Start

This MCP server is designed to work with MCP Clients like:

Installing via Smithery

To install railway-mcp automatically, we recommend using Smithery

Claude Desktop

npx -y @smithery/cli install @jason-tan-swe/railway-mcp --client claude

Cursor

npx -y @smithery/cli@latest run @jason-tan-swe/railway-mcp --config "{\"railwayApiToken\":\"token\"}"

Manual Installation For Cursor

1. Head to your cursor settings and find the MCP section

2. Click 'Add new MCP server'

3. Name it however, you like, we recommend railway-mcp for better clarity

4. Paste this command into the 'Command' section, where is your accounts Railway token:

npx -y @jasontanswe/railway-mcp 

Manual Installation For Claude

1. Create or edit your Claude for Desktop config file: - macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json - Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add the railway-mcp server to your configuration with your API token:

   "railway": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@jasontanswe/railway-mcp"],
      "env": {
         "RAILWAY_API_TOKEN": "your-railway-api-token-here"
      }
   }

When you have multiple MCP servers, your config file might look like this:

```json { "mcpServers": { // ... All of your existing MCP servers ...

// Add the railway-mcp server to your configuration with your API token