Deploy to Render Checklist skill for Claude and Codex

Deploy to Render Checklist as an AI skill. It asks for App description, Service type, Build and start commands and 3 more, then does the rest. Free to install…

Install it once and Claude or Codex runs it for you. When your request matches, your AI loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When it is used

Use when an app is being put on Render for the first time and its service type, commands, health check and environment need confirming. Do not use for comparing platforms or tuning application performance. Related topics: devops, coding.

What it will ask you for

• App description (longer free text)
• Service type (choose one: Web service, Static site, Background worker, Cron job, Private service)
• Build and start commands (free text, e.g. "Both as run locally")
• Health check path (free text, e.g. "Route that returns 200 when healthy or none yet")
• Databases or caches (choose any: Postgres, Key Value store, Disk, None)
• Environment variable names (longer free text)

How it works

1. Confirm the service type matches the app and that the server binds to the PORT variable on all interfaces.
2. Verify build and start commands run from a clean checkout and keep installation out of the start step.
3. Define a lightweight health check path and describe what it must verify.
4. Set out database connection, backup and migration handling so concurrent instances cannot collide.
5. List environment names and platform caveats, then give a first-deploy test plan with a go or no-go line.

What you get

A checklist covering service, commands, health check, data and environment, with a first-deploy test plan and a go or no-go line.

What it watches out for

• Binding to localhost, so the service builds fine and then never receives traffic.
• Running database migrations in the start command on several instances, which races and corrupts the schema.
• Choosing a free instance for something that needs to answer instantly, then blaming the app for cold starts.

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.

Codex

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.agents/skills/ (or .agents/skills/ inside a project).
3. Codex picks it up on its own. Type $ and the skill name to use it, or just ask for the task.

Cursor

1. Download the Cursor rule (.mdc).
2. Save it in .cursor/rules/ inside your project.
3. Cursor's agent applies the rule when your request matches its description.

AGENTS.md (Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents)

1. Copy the AGENTS.md section.
2. Paste it into AGENTS.md at the root of your repository, creating the file if needed.
3. Coding agents that read AGENTS.md follow it when your request fits.