How to connect Railway to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Railway MCP. List recent failed railway deployments, redeploy production service on railway, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Railway is a deployment platform for building, shipping, and scaling applications with managed infrastructure. It helps teams deploy faster with instant builds, automatic scaling, and simple project operations.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Railway account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list recent failed Railway deployments, redeploy production service on Railway, check Railway project environment variables, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Railway to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Railway account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Railway or give it any Railway-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List recent failed Railway deployments"
  • "Redeploy production service on Railway"
  • "Check Railway project environment variables"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Railway account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Railway through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Railway MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Railway MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Railway account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Railway operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Railway action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Plugin

Creates a new plugin in Railway for the specified project.

Delete Variable

Delete a Railway environment variable.

Delete Volume

Permanently delete a persistent volume and all its associated data from Railway.

Delete workspace

Delete a Railway workspace and all data associated with it.

Disconnect Discord account

Disconnects the authenticated user's Railway account from Discord.

Get Deployment Logs

Retrieve runtime logs for a deployment.

Get Environment

Get details of a specific Railway environment by its ID, including service instances and deployment information.

Get GitHub PR Info

Get information for a GitHub pull request associated with a Railway service.

Get User Kickback Earnings

Get the total kickback earnings for the authenticated Railway user.

List API Tokens

Retrieve all API tokens for the authenticated user from Railway.

List Environment Patches

Retrieve all patches for a Railway environment using the GraphQL API.

List GitHub Repos

Retrieve a list of GitHub repositories that Railway has access to.

List GitHub Writable Scopes

Retrieve the list of GitHub scopes the user has installed the installation to.

List Integration Auths

Retrieve all integration auths for the authenticated user from Railway.

List Notification Deliveries

Retrieve notification deliveries for the authenticated user.

List Railway Trusted Domains

Fetch all trusted domains for the authenticated Railway workspace.

Update Project

Update project settings and configuration on Railway.

Update Service Instance

Update build/deploy settings for a service in a specific environment on Railway.

FRAMEWORKS

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Railway MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Railway tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Railway and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Railway tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Railway scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Railway data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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