Using Render with Coding Agents

Deploy and manage apps using LLM-powered tools.

Render integrates with popular coding agents to help you manage your infrastructure, diagnose issues, and learn about the platform.

Agent skills and plugins

Render's official skills enable agents to deploy, debug, and monitor your apps. These skills are also bundled into official marketplace plugins for Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code.

Install

Render provides official plugins for Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code.

Open the plugin marketplace for your preferred tool (usually with /plugins) and search for render:

Adding the Render plugin in the Claude Code plugin marketplace

Every plugin bundles Render's official skills to provide a unified interface for using them with your coding agent. Some plugins also include the Render MCP server. See your plugin's documentation for details.

Requires version 2.10 or later of the Render CLI.

Check your current version with render --version

Run the following command:
The CLI detects supported tools on your system (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode) and prompts you to select which skills to install.

You can also specify options directly for non-interactive use:

See the CLI reference for the full list of skills subcommands, including update, remove, and list.

Clone the Render Skills GitHub repository.

From the repo's skills/ directory, copy each skill directory into your tool's skills directory.

Default skills directories for popular tools are listed below:

Tool	Skills Directory
Claude Code	`~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/`
Codex	`~/.codex/skills/<skill-name>/`
Cursor	`~/.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/`
OpenCode	`~/.config/opencode/skills/<skill-name>/`

Depending on your tool, you might need to restart it after installing.

After installing, your agent can automatically select and invoke skills to fulfill relevant prompts. You can also invoke a skill manually using your coding agent's syntax (usually a / or $ symbol followed by the skill's name).

Invoking the render-deploy skill in Codex

Supported skills

Render interfaces

Skill	Description
render-cli	Install and use the Render CLI for deployment and operations.
render-mcp	Connect and configure the Render MCP server for your coding agent.

Service lifecycle

Skill	Description
render-deploy	Deploy applications using IaC with Render Blueprints or directly via MCP.
render-docker	Build and deploy containerized services using Docker on Render.
render-scaling	Scale services with manual instance controls or autoscaling settings.

Service diagnostics

Skill	Description
render-debug	Debug deployment issues using logs, metrics, and database queries. Detects common issues like missing environment variables, port binding errors, and resource constraints.
render-monitor	Monitor service health, performance metrics, logs, and resource usage in real-time.

Skill

Description

render-debug

Debug deployment issues using logs, metrics, and database queries.

Detects common issues like missing environment variables, port binding errors, and resource constraints.

render-monitor

Monitor service health, performance metrics, logs, and resource usage in real-time.

Service config

Skill	Description
render-blueprints	Author and validate `render.yaml` files for use with Render Blueprints for multi-service infrastructure.
render-domains	Configure custom domains and HTTPS/TLS for web services and static sites.
render-env-vars	Manage environment variables, secrets, and environment groups across services.
render-networking	Connect services over Render's private network using internal DNS and service discovery.

Service types

Skill	Description
render-background-workers	Configure queue-based background workers for asynchronous job processing.
render-cron-jobs	Set up and troubleshoot scheduled tasks using Render cron jobs.
render-private-services	Set up internal-only private services that are reachable on Render's private network.
render-static-sites	Deploy and configure static sites on Render's global CDN.
render-web-services	Configure and troubleshoot public web services on Render.
render-workflows	Set up, build, and deploy Render Workflows for distributed task execution.

Datastores

Skill	Description
render-disks	Attach and manage persistent disks for stateful workloads.
render-keyvalue	Provision and configure Render Key Value instances.
render-postgres	Set up and operate Render Postgres databases.

Migration

Skill	Description
render-migrate-from-heroku	Plan and execute migrations from Heroku to Render.

Example prompts

Ask your tool to perform any of these tasks:

Deploy my application to Render

Debug my Render deployment

Is my Render service healthy?

Your tool will invoke the appropriate set of skills and guide you through the process.

Skill source

View skills on GitHub

Render MCP server

Connect to Render's official MCP server to manage your Render infrastructure directly from apps like Cursor and Claude Code:

The MCP server provides tools for actions such as:

Creating new services and redeploying existing ones
Querying databases
Analyzing metrics and logs

It's especially useful for helping you identify and resolve issues with service deploys.

Get started with Render MCP

Documentation features

The Render documentation provides the following capabilities to improve content discoverability and parsing for agents:

Articles as markdown

Each article under render.com/docs/ is available in a simplified markdown format that's well suited for LLMs.

Obtain an article's markdown version by doing any of the following:

Append .md to the end of an article's URL:
Include an Accept: text/markdown header in your request to an article's URL (no .md extension required).
- Agentic tools like Claude Code often include this header in their HTTP requests by default.
Click Copy page in the top-right corner of an article to copy its markdown version to your clipboard (not available on smaller screen widths).

Reading `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`

The Render documentation includes llms.txt and llms-full.txt files at the following URLs:

File	Description
`llms.txt`	Provides a summary of the Render documentation, including links and descriptions of each article.
`llms-full.txt`	Combines most of the Render documentation into a single, simplified markdown file. Some content types are omitted for brevity.

Docs via MCP

This feature is experimental.

Render might discontinue support for this documentation-specific MCP server at any time in the future.

Render's primary MCP server does not yet provide tools for querying the Render documentation.

To query the Render docs from LLMs, you can connect your app or agent to the following additional MCP server:

This MCP server provides "tools" for searching and asking questions about the Render docs. It uses the same LLM-powered answer engine as the Ask AI assistant in the documentation.