Railway MCP

A Model Context Protocol server for interacting with your Railway account. This local MCP server provides a set of opinionated workflows and tools for managing Railway resources.

Prerequisites

The Railway CLI is required for this server to function.

Features

• Non-destructive by design: The MCP server doesn't include destructive actions
• CLI version detection: Automatically detects your Railway CLI version to use appropriate features
• Template deployment: Deploy from Railway's template library

Available Tools

Status & Authentication

• check-railway-status - Checks that the Railway CLI is installed and that the user is logged in

Project Management

• list-projects - List all Railway projects
• create-project-and-link - Create a new project and link it to the current directory

Service Management

• list-services - List all services in a project
• link-service - Link a service to the current directory
• deploy - Deploy a service
• deploy-template - Deploy a template from the Railway Template Library

Environment Management

• create-environment - Create a new environment
• link-environment - Link an environment to the current directory

Configuration & Variables

• list-variables - List environment variables
• set-variables - Set environment variables
• generate-domain - Generate a railway.app domain for a project

Monitoring & Logs

• get-logs - Retrieve build or deployment logs for a service (CLI v4.9.0+ supports lines and filter parameters)

Example Usage

Creating a new project and deploying:

Create a Next.js app in this directory and deploy it to Railway. Make sure to also assign it a domain.

Deploy from a template:

Deploy a Postgres database

Pull environment variables:

I would like to pull environment variables for my project and save them in a .env file

Create a new environment:

I would like to create a new development environment called development where I can test my changes. This environment should duplicate production. Once the environment is created, I want to set it as my current linked environment