Railway · Opus 5.5 · medium effort · HIPAA organization · trial 1
API / Backend Service on Railway
Needs a person stopped at the human stage
Deployed to https://….up.railway.app. Every deployment is deleted after it's verified and reviewed.
Technologies
- Runtime
- Node.js 20+
- Frameworks
- Express
- Libraries
- node-postgres
- Packaging
- railway.json
Named from the app's dependencies, Dockerfile and config files, and the cloud resources it created.
Human steps
- Sign up for an account and verify the email address · 3 min
prerequisite: account setup - Create an API token and hand it to the agent · 2 min
prerequisite: account setup; agent: Re-run ./deploy.sh (RAILWAY_API_TOKEN and BENCH_API_KEYS in env) and set deployment.json `url` to the printed https://*.up.railway.app domain (Creates project adb-hnc3c-api with Postgres + adb-hnc3c-api-web (API_KEYS=BENCH_API_KEYS, DATABASE_URL reference), deploys and generates the public HTTPS dom - Add a payment method to the account · 2 min
agent: In the Railway dashboard for workspace "Javier Luraschi's Projects", free up the trial's project allowance (e.g. delete the unrelated projects adb-ytghj-static / adb-bbchf-static if no longer needed) or add a payment method / activate the Hobby plan (projectCreate fails with 'Free plan resource prov
What blocked the deploy
- agent In the Railway dashboard for workspace "Javier Luraschi's Projects", free up the trial's project allowance (e.g. delete the unrelated projects adb-ytghj-static / adb-bbchf-static if no longer needed) or add a payment method / activate the Hobby plan (projectCreate fails with 'Free plan resource prov
- agent Re-run ./deploy.sh (RAILWAY_API_TOKEN and BENCH_API_KEYS in env) and set deployment.json `url` to the printed https://*.up.railway.app domain (Creates project adb-hnc3c-api with Postgres + adb-hnc3c-api-web (API_KEYS=BENCH_API_KEYS, DATABASE_URL reference), deploys and generates the public HTTPS dom
Stack fit
Not rated: no reachable deployment to review.
Security & compliance review
Not scored: no reachable deployment to review.
Cloud resources and cost
| Traffic | Per month | How it was priced |
|---|---|---|
| Light use Barely used: a few visits a week, about 2,000 requests a month. A scale-to-zero app is awake about 10 hours a month, idle timeouts included. | $0.00 | nothing deployed |
| Busy A public app that crawlers, uptime monitors and visitors hit around the clock: one request a second on average, so it never goes idle. | $0.00 | nothing deployed |
The benchmark found no cloud resources for this cell.
The agent estimated $2.00 a month.
Code
- Code
- 512 lines in 15 files (JavaScript 494, JSON 63, Markdown 47, Shell 18)
- Dependencies
- 2 npm, 0 Python
- Deploy config
railway.json
The agent's sessions
| Phase | Status | Time | Turns | Tokens | Cost | Shell commands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build | completed | 2m 20s | 11 | 453.7K | $0.52 | 10 |
| Deploy | completed | 1m 00s | 9 | 534.1K | $0.21 | 8 |
The agent's deploy summary
The app is still not deployed. The Railway token works, but the account won't let me create any new resources, so there is no public URL and I couldn't test anything through one.
What happened
- I tried to create the project
adb-hnc3c-apitwice, once with the CLI and once directly through Railway's API. Both times Railway answered: "Free plan resource provision limit exceeded. Please upgrade to provision more resources!" - The workspace "Javier Luraschi's Projects" is still on its trial: Railway shows it as inactive, with $5 of credit.
- It already holds two projects from other runs,
adb-ytghj-staticandadb-bbchf-static, which appear to use up the trial's allowance. They aren't mine, so I didn't delete them or deploy into them. - Nothing was created, so nothing is being billed. I didn't save anything to
.envbecause the token already comes from the environment.
Human steps (recorded as blocking in deployment.json):
- Free up room in the workspace, either by deleting those two projects if they're no longer needed or by adding a payment method to activate the Hobby plan.
- Run
./deploy.shwithRAILWAY_API_TOKENandBENCH_API_KEYSset, then copy the printedhttps://….up.railway.appaddress intodeployment.json.
The script creates the project, a Postgres database and the adb-hnc3c-api-web service. It sets API_KEYS to exactly BENCH_API_KEYS, uploads the code and creates the public HTTPS address. It has still never run against Railway, because every attempt stopped at creating the project. I expect the app to cost about $1–2 a month of usage credit.
After it's deployed: Railway's database template names its service Postgres, which breaks the naming rule. Renaming it to adb-hnc3c-api-db means also updating DATABASE_URL to the new name. The rate limit is counted in the server's memory, so keep the web service at one copy.
8 shell commands during deploy
- 3s
railway --version && railway whoami 2>&1 | head -3; railway list 2>&1 | head - 7s
railway init --name adb-hnc3c-api 2>&1 | tail -3 && railway add --database postgres 2>&1 | tail -3 - 13s
cd /tmp && q(){ curl -s https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_API_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$1"; } - 17s
q(){ curl -s https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_API_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$1"; } - 21s
q(){ curl -s https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_API_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$1"; } - 25s
sleep 35; q(){ curl -s https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_API_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$1"; } - 29s
q(){ curl -s https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAILWAY_API_TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$1"; } - 52s
python3 - <<'EOF'
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