railway.app llms.txt
In short
railway.app serves a 6.5 KB llms.txt with 7 H2 sections and 40 links, graded B on the llmstxt.org structure (5 of 6 checks). It lacks same-site links. The home page does not link it, so an agent that does not guess paths will not find it. No llms-full.txt was found. Read 4 November 2026.
llms.txt 6.5 KB, 67 lines
# Railway
> Railway is an infrastructure platform that simplifies your stack from servers to observability with a single, scalable, easy-to-use platform. Railway's superior developer experience makes it easy to deploy cloud infrastructure, full-stack applications, and websites.
## About Railway
- [Railway Features](https://railway.com/features.md): An unparalleled developer experience for infrastructure […] build, deploy, network, scale, observe, and secure your apps
- [Railway Customers](https://railway.com/customers.md): Loved by developers at 31% of the F500. Hear how Railway powers businesses across AI, Fintech, B2B SaaS, and more
- [About Railway](https://railway.com/about.md): Railway is building the cloud computing stack that unburdens developers, so they can focus on what matters
- [Railway Careers](https://railway.com/careers.md): Railway is hiring engineers and designers to rebuild the cloud computing stack
## For AI Agents
- [Railway for AI Agents](https://railway.com/agents.md): Critical setup instructions for agents […] CLI setup with `bash <(curl -fsSL cli.new) --agents -y`, local MCP and agent skills, optional remote MCP, and core use cases (deploy, databases, volumes, functions, config).
- [railway.com/index.md](https://railway.com/index.md): The same agent setup briefing, served at the site root
- [Railway Remote MCP Server](https://railway.com/mcp.md): Connect AI coding agents to Railway over OAuth […] […] token files
- [Authenticating to Railway](https://railway.com/auth.md): The four ways to hold a Railway credential […] CLI login, remote MCP over OAuth, public API tokens, and Login with Railway […] with the exact headers to send
## Machine-Readable Endpoints
- [AI catalog (ARD)](https://railway.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json): Agentic Resource Discovery catalog of every agentic resource […] MCP server, API, and instruction pages […] with stable identifiers
- [API catalog](https://railway.com/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset naming every Railway API, its docs, its auth metadata, and its status page
- [MCP server card](https://railway.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): Identity and transport for the remote MCP server at `mcp.railway.com`
- Public API (GraphQL): `https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2` […] single endpoint, schema by introspection
- [Template deploy manifests](https://railway.com/deploy/llms.txt): Machine-readable deploy manifest per template […] one line each with validation status; inputs and deploy commands inline at https://railway.com/deploy/llms-full.txt, JSON index at https://railway.com/deploy/index.json, per-template manifests at https://railway.com/deploy/{template}/manifest.json
- [OpenAPI description](https://railway.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 for the GraphQL entrypoint and the OAuth 2.0 / OIDC endpoints
- [API reliability](https://railway.com/api-reliability.md): Errors and error codes, rate limits and headers, retry guidance, and the versioning/deprecation policy
- OpenID Connect discovery: `https://backboard.railway.com/oauth/.well-known/openid-configuration`
## Product Details
- [Railway Sandboxes](https://railway.com/sandboxes.md): Linux VMs with coding agents preinstalled, private networking, checkpoints, forks, and usage-based pricing
- [Free VMs, no sign up](https://railway.com/free-vm.md): `ssh railway.new` gets a free Linux VM with coding agents preinstalled and a preview URL, no account needed; agents can use it too
- [Railway Pricing](https://railway.com/pricing.md): Plans, per-second usage rates for CPU/memory/disk/egress/storage, and committed spend
- [Railway Enterprise](https://railway.com/enterprise.md): […] scale, security, and support for organizations and enterprise teams
- [Railway Domains](https://railway.com/domains.md): Register and manage custom domains for your Railway services, with automatic SSL certificates
- [Railway Mobile App](https://railway.com/mobile.md): Deploy, monitor, and manage your services from anywhere
- [Migrate from Heroku](https://railway.com/heroku.md): Railway is the Heroku alternative with cheaper pricing, faster builds, and better developer experience
- [Railway Template Marketplace](https://railway.com/deploy.md): Template categories and the most deployed one-click templates
- [Railway AI Templates](https://railway.com/deploy/category/ai.md): One-click AI templates like Ollama, Open WebUI, and vector databases, with FAQs on hosting AI apps
- [Railway Templates](https://railway.com/llms-templates.md): One-click deploy templates with architecture details, service configs, and READMEs
- [Railway Product Changelog](https://railway.com/llms-changelog.md): Product changelog entries with titles, dates, and links
- [Railway Changelog Index](https://railway.com/changelog.md): Product updates ordered by date; individual entries are available at /changelog/<slug>.md
## Programs & Events
- [Railway Affiliate Program](https://railway.com/affiliate-program.md): Earn 15% commission on every invoice from your Railway referrals for 12 months after signup
- [Railway Template Kickback Program](https://railway.com/open-source-kickback.md): Earn 25% revenue commission whenever someone deploys your template on Railway
- [Railway Open Source Partner Program](https://railway.com/partners.md): Turn your open source project into a deployable Railway template, support users directly, and earn commission on every deployment
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Parse graded B, 5 of 6
file: https://railway.app/llms.txt
Railway
Railway is an infrastructure platform that simplifies your stack from servers to observability with a single, scalable, easy-to-use platform. Railway's superior developer experience makes it easy to deploy cloud infrastructure, full-stack applications, and websites.
7 sections, 40 links, no Optional section.
Ora's cached score: 87, grade A, scanned 2 November 2026.
The parse
railway.app lists 40 links: 0 point at railway.app or a relative path, 40 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: railway.com (37), blog.railway.com (1), docs.railway.com (1), station.railway.com (1).
| H2 section | Links |
|---|---|
| About Railway | 4 |
| For AI Agents | 4 |
| Machine-Readable Endpoints | 6 |
| Product Details | 12 |
| Programs & Events | 5 |
| Legal | 6 |
| Railway Ecosystem | 3 |
Grade against the llmstxt.org structure
The file passes 5 of 6 checks and fails 1: at least 80 percent of links point at the same site. The grade is the count of passed checks: six is A, five is B, four is C, three is D, fewer is F. It measures structure only. Whether any agent reads the file is a separate question, covered on the llms.txt reference.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Starts with an H1 naming the site or project | Pass | H1: Railway |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 7 H2 sections, 7 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Fail | 0 of 40 links stay on railway.app (0 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 6625 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |
Ora's cached score
Ora's cached report for railway.app gives it 87 of 100, grade A, scanned on 2 November 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 57 of 61 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/railway.app on 5 November 2026. The score is Ora's, not this site's, and the structure grade above is a different measure: it grades the llms.txt file against the llmstxt.org proposal, while Ora's score covers the whole site. Ora's report for railway.app has every layer.
| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 2 of 3 |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown URL fallback | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| llms.txt exists | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| llms.txt formatting | Partial | 1 of 2 |
| JSON-LD structured data | Pass | 4 of 4 |
| Metadata completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Code fence validity | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Content behind auth | Not applicable | 0 of 2 |
| OpenAPI spec published | Pass | 7 of 7 |
| Markdown agent docs | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Markdown negotiation with Vary | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Markdown for agent user agents | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 |
Linking and the companion file
The home page of railway.app does not link the file in its HTML. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that 86 percent of llms.txt fetches by agents arrived through a link, so an unlinked file is mostly a file nobody opens. No llms-full.txt was found at the same root.
How it compares
At 6.5 KB the file is larger than 44 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 40 links put it ahead of 54 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: 2 to 10 KB. Tranco rank 2,197. Category: Infrastructure.
Live file: https://railway.app/llms.txt. Read 4 November 2026. If the file has since changed or gone, the live URL is the authority; this page records what the crawl read on that date.
Sources
- railway.app llms.txt https://railway.app/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026
- llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
- Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026
- Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
- Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026