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# Render

Render (https://render.com) is a cloud application platform for deploying, securing, and scaling applications, from hundred-line prototypes to complex multi-service architectures.

## Start here

Route according to your task:

- To connect, install, set up, or configure Render for this agent environment, read https://render.com/agents.md and follow its steps in order. Treat it as a procedure, not as reference documentation.
- To perform a Render platform task (deploy a service, debug a failed deploy, add a database, configure a domain, scale a service, etc.), read https://render.com/agents/tasks.md.
- To retrieve documentation for a single topic, use the Documentation index below, search https://render.com/api/agent/docs-search?query={query}, or fetch the relevant page as Markdown from https://render.com/docs/{slug}.md.

## Agent interfaces

- Authenticated, account-scoped platform actions (Render MCP Server): https://mcp.render.com/mcp
- MCP server documentation: https://render.com/docs/mcp-server.md
- MCP OAuth 2.0 authorization server metadata: https://api.render.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- Public documentation keyword search: https://render.com/api/agent/docs-search
- Public documentation retrieval as Markdown: https://render.com/docs/{slug}.md
- Render REST API documentation: https://render.com/docs/api.md
- Render REST API OpenAPI specification: https://api-docs.render.com/openapi/render-public-api-1.json
- Render REST API reference material: https://api-docs.render.com/llms.txt
- Render REST API authentication (API keys): https://render.com/docs/api.md#setup
- Render webhooks documentation: https://render.com/docs/webhooks.md
- Installable Render agent skills: https://render.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json

## Setup guides

Use the guide that matches this agent environment and follow it in order:

- Claude Desktop: https://render.com/agents/claude-desktop.md
- Claude Code: https://render.com/agents/claude.md
- Codex Desktop: https://render.com/agents/codex-desktop.md
- Codex CLI: https://render.com/agents/codex.md
- Cursor: https://render.com/agents/cursor.md
- OpenCode: https://render.com/agents/opencode.md
- Pi: https://render.com/agents/pi.md

## Documentation

For the complete documentation corpus, use https://render.com/llms-full.txt only when the task requires broad access to the full Render documentation set.

Do not fetch it for single-topic lookups (it is over 900 KB). Instead, fetch individual .md pages or use the search endpoint.

### Core Platform

#### Start

- [Your First Render Deploy](https://render.com/docs/your-first-deploy.md): Run your web app in minutes.
- [Deploy for Free](https://render.com/docs/free.md): Preview the Render platform with free web services and datastores.
- [Platform Features by Plan](https://render.com/docs/platform-features-by-plan.md): Enable powerful platform capabilities with a Pro, Scale, or Enterprise plan.
- [Using Render with Coding Agents](https://render.com/docs/llm-support.md): Deploy and manage apps using LLM-powered tools.
- [Render FAQ](https://render.com/docs/faq.md)

##### Migrate from…

- [Migrate from Heroku to Render](https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku.md): Bring your Heroku apps and data to the Render platform.
- [Migrate from Railway to Render](https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-railway.md): Bring your Railway apps and data to the Render platform.

#### Compute

- [Render Compute Plans](https://render.com/docs/compute-plans.md): Specify your service's available CPU and RAM.

##### Service types

- [Services and Service Types](https://render.com/docs/service-types.md): Understand Render's core building blocks.
- [Static Sites](https://render.com/docs/static-sites.md): Host your website's frontend (React, Next.js, etc.) over a global CDN.
- [Web Services](https://render.com/docs/web-services.md): Host dynamic web apps (Express, Django, etc.) at a public URL.
- [Private Services](https://render.com/docs/private-services.md): Host apps that only accept traffic from your other services.
- [Background Workers](https://render.com/docs/background-workers.md): Offload asynchronous tasks to a separate service listening on a queue.
- [Cron Jobs](https://render.com/docs/cronjobs.md): Run periodic tasks on a schedule you define.
- [Multi-Service Architectures on Render](https://render.com/docs/multi-service-architecture.md)

##### Data storage

- [Render Key Value](https://render.com/docs/key-value.md): Provision Redis®-compatible datastores for caching and job queues.
- [Persistent Disks](https://render.com/docs/disks.md): Preserve your service's filesystem changes across deploys.

##### Sandboxes

- [Render Sandboxes](https://render.com/docs/sandboxes.md): Run untrusted code in an isolated, on-demand environment.
- [Sandboxes CLI reference](https://render.com/docs/sandboxes-cli-reference.md)
- [Sandboxes SDK for TypeScript](https://render.com/docs/sandboxes-sdk-typescript.md): Usage and symbol reference
- [Sandboxes SDK for Python](https://render.com/docs/sandboxes-sdk-python.md): Usage and symbol reference

#### Deploys

- [Deploying on Render](https://render.com/docs/deploys.md): Understand how deploys work.
- [Supported Languages](https://render.com/docs/language-support.md)
- [Connect your Git Provider to Render](https://render.com/docs/git-provider.md): Deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Cursor Origin.
- [Build Pipeline](https://render.com/docs/build-pipeline.md)
- [Monorepo Support](https://render.com/docs/monorepo-support.md): Deploy from a repo that contains the source for multiple apps.
- [Troubleshooting Your Deploy](https://render.com/docs/troubleshooting-deploys.md): Resolve issues deploying and running on Render.

##### Previewing changes

- [Service Previews](https://render.com/docs/service-previews.md): Test proposed changes in a temporary standalone instance.
- [Preview Environments](https://render.com/docs/preview-environments.md): Test proposed changes in a disposable copy of your production environment.

##### Docker deploys

- [Docker on Render](https://render.com/docs/docker.md): Build from a Dockerfile or pull from a container registry.
- [Deploy a Prebuilt Docker Image](https://render.com/docs/deploying-an-image.md): Pull images from Docker Hub, GitHub, and more.
- [Using Secrets with Docker](https://render.com/docs/docker-secrets.md)

##### Runtime

- [Native Runtimes](https://render.com/docs/native-runtimes.md): Run your app in an environment that's pre-configured for your language.
- [Environment Variables and Secrets](https://render.com/docs/configure-environment-variables.md)
- [Default Environment Variables](https://render.com/docs/environment-variables.md)

#### Workflows

- [Intro to Render Workflows](https://render.com/docs/workflows.md): Orchestrate chains of long-running, distributed tasks.
- [Your First Workflow](https://render.com/docs/workflows-tutorial.md): Register your first task and trigger its first run.
- [Limits and Pricing for Render Workflows](https://render.com/docs/workflows-limits.md)

##### How to…

- Defining Workflow Tasks
  - [v1 (current)](https://render.com/docs/workflows-defining.md)
  - [v0](https://render.com/docs/workflows-defining/v0.md)
- [Triggering Task Runs](https://render.com/docs/workflows-running.md): Kick off runs of registered workflow tasks.
- [Local Dev with Render Workflows](https://render.com/docs/workflows-local-development.md): Run tasks locally for faster development and testing.

##### SDK reference

- Workflows SDK for TypeScript
  - [v1 (current)](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-typescript.md)
  - [v0](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-typescript/v0.md)
- Workflows SDK for Python
  - [v1 (current)](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-python.md)
  - [v0](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-python/v0.md)

#### Render Postgres

- [Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql.md): Deploy fully managed, enterprise-grade databases that scale to any workload.
- [Create and Connect to Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-creating-connecting.md)
- [Database Credential Rotations for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-credentials.md): Perform zero-downtime rotations.
- [Supported Extensions for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-extensions.md)
- [Upgrading Your Render Postgres Version](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-upgrading.md): Move your database to a more recent version of PostgreSQL.
- [Logical Replication with Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-logical-replication.md): Subscribe to data changes from a publisher database.
- [Render Postgres Legacy Instance Types](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-legacy-instance-types.md)

##### Database recovery

- [Render Postgres Recovery and Backups](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-backups.md): Restore your database to a previous state and export logical backups.
- [High Availability for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-high-availability.md): Automatically swap to a standby database when your primary encounters an issue.

##### Database performance

- [Read Replicas for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-read-replicas.md): Offload expensive read operations to separate database instances.
- [Connection Pooling for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-connection-pooling.md)
- [Admin Apps for Render Postgres](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-apps.md): Quickly connect pgAdmin or PgHero to your database.
- [Repacking Postgres Tables with pg_repack](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-pg-repack.md): Reclaim database bloat without long-held locks.
- [Troubleshooting Render Postgres Performance](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-performance-troubleshooting.md)

#### Networking

- [Regions](https://render.com/docs/regions.md): Deploy your apps and datastores close to your users.
- [Inbound IP Rules](https://render.com/docs/inbound-ip-rules.md): Allow incoming connections only from specified IP ranges.
- [Edge Caching for Web Services](https://render.com/docs/web-service-caching.md): Serve static content from a global edge cache for faster delivery.
- [WebSockets on Render](https://render.com/docs/websocket.md): Send and receive data in real time.
- [Fully Managed TLS Certificates](https://render.com/docs/tls.md)

##### Custom domains

- [Custom Domains on Render](https://render.com/docs/custom-domains.md)
- [Configuring Cloudflare DNS](https://render.com/docs/configure-cloudflare-dns.md)
- [Configuring Namecheap DNS](https://render.com/docs/configure-namecheap-dns.md)
- [Configuring DNS Providers](https://render.com/docs/configure-other-dns.md): Point a custom domain to your Render service.

##### Internal traffic

- [Private Network](https://render.com/docs/private-network.md): Communicate securely between services without traversing the public internet.
- [Private Link Connections](https://render.com/docs/private-link.md): Securely connect your Render infrastructure to AWS-hosted cloud services.

##### Outbound traffic

- [Outbound IP Addresses](https://render.com/docs/outbound-ip-addresses.md): Render services send traffic from specific IP ranges.
- [Dedicated IPs](https://render.com/docs/dedicated-ips.md): Send outbound service traffic through fixed, reserved IP addresses.
- [Outbound Bandwidth](https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth.md): Understand how egress traffic is measured and priced on Render.
- [Handling Outbound Network Changes](https://render.com/docs/outbound-connection-resets.md)

##### Static site config

- [HTTP Headers for Static Sites](https://render.com/docs/static-site-headers.md)
- [Static Site Redirects and Rewrites](https://render.com/docs/redirects-rewrites.md)

#### Operational Controls

- [The Render Dashboard](https://render.com/docs/render-dashboard.md): Manage your Render services, workspaces, and billing.
- [SSH and Shell Access](https://render.com/docs/ssh.md): Connect to your services from your terminal or the Render Dashboard.
- [Projects and Environments](https://render.com/docs/projects.md): Organize your services and set environment-level controls.

##### Service actions

- [Scaling Render Services](https://render.com/docs/scaling.md): Run multiple instances to handle additional load.
- [Rollbacks](https://render.com/docs/rollbacks.md): Quickly revert your service to a previous deploy.
- [Maintenance Mode](https://render.com/docs/maintenance-mode.md): Temporarily disable public traffic to your web service.
- [One-Off Jobs](https://render.com/docs/one-off-jobs.md): Run standalone tasks using your service's latest build.

##### Infrastructure as code

- [Render Blueprints (IaC)](https://render.com/docs/infrastructure-as-code.md): Manage your Render infrastructure with a single YAML file.
- [Blueprint YAML Reference](https://render.com/docs/blueprint-spec.md)
- [Render Terraform Provider](https://render.com/docs/terraform-provider.md): Manage Render resources alongside your other infrastructure.

#### Observability

- [Service Metrics](https://render.com/docs/service-metrics.md): Visualize the performance of your apps and datastores.
- [Health Checks](https://render.com/docs/health-checks.md): Render makes sure your services are ready for incoming traffic.
- [Best Practices for Maximizing Uptime](https://render.com/docs/uptime-best-practices.md)

##### Logging

- [Logs in the Render Dashboard](https://render.com/docs/logging.md)
- [Streaming Render Service Logs](https://render.com/docs/log-streams.md): Forward logs to your third-party logging provider.

##### OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics

- [Streaming Render Service Metrics](https://render.com/docs/metrics-streams.md): Push metrics for CPU, memory, and more to your OTel-compatible provider.
- [OpenTelemetry Metrics Reference](https://render.com/docs/metrics-streams-reference.md): Look up supported metrics and their properties.

##### Notifications

- [Render Webhooks](https://render.com/docs/webhooks.md): Trigger custom workflows in response to service events.
- [Email and Slack Notifications](https://render.com/docs/notifications.md): Receive updates about important Render service events.

#### Integrations

- [Render MCP Server](https://render.com/docs/mcp-server.md): Manage your Render resources from Claude, Codex, and Cursor.

##### Render CLI

- [The Render CLI](https://render.com/docs/cli.md): Manage your Render resources from the command line.
- [Render CLI Reference](https://render.com/docs/cli-reference.md): Look up supported commands and options.

##### REST API

- [The Render API](https://render.com/docs/api.md): Manage your Render infrastructure programmatically.

##### Third-party connections

- [Managed Auth with OpenID Connect](https://render.com/docs/oidc.md): Connect Render services to popular providers using OIDC.
- [Integrating Render with Datadog](https://render.com/docs/datadog.md)

#### User Management

- [Workspaces, Members, and Roles](https://render.com/docs/team-members.md): Create your workspace, add collaborators, and manage access.
- [Login Settings](https://render.com/docs/login-settings.md): Connect your login provider and enforce requirements for your workspace.
- [Audit Logs](https://render.com/docs/audit-logs.md): Export a timeline of material actions performed in your workspace or organization.

##### Organizations

- [Organizations](https://render.com/docs/organizations.md): Manage users and services across multiple workspaces.
- [SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)](https://render.com/docs/saml-sso.md): Manage access to your Render organization with your identity provider.

#### Platform Protections

- [DDoS Protection](https://render.com/docs/ddos-protection.md)
- [Render Platform Maintenance](https://render.com/docs/platform-maintenance.md): Learn about periodic upgrades to Render's underlying infrastructure.

##### Compliance

- [Render Platform Compliance and Certifications](https://render.com/docs/certifications-compliance.md): Learn about compliance with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and more.
- [HIPAA on Render](https://render.com/docs/hipaa-compliance.md): Run HIPAA-compliant apps and store protected health information.
- [Building HIPAA-Compliant Apps on Render](https://render.com/docs/hipaa-best-practices.md): Follow best practices to help keep PHI secure.
- [Shared Responsibility Model](https://render.com/docs/shared-responsibility-model.md): Understand how Render and our customers work together to keep applications secure.
- [Render Penetration Testing Policy](https://render.com/docs/penetration-testing.md): Understand which types of pentests are allowed.

#### Compare

- [Render vs Heroku](https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison.md)
- [Render vs Vercel](https://render.com/docs/render-vs-vercel-comparison.md)

#### Additional docs

- [Back Up Render Postgres to Amazon S3](https://render.com/docs/backup-postgresql-to-s3.md)
- [Setting your Bun Version](https://render.com/docs/bun-version.md)
- [Render Community Migration](https://render.com/docs/community.md): Join the Render community on Discord.
- [Updates to Render Compute Plans](https://render.com/docs/compute-plans-update.md)
- [Connecting to MongoDB Atlas](https://render.com/docs/connect-to-mongodb-atlas.md)
- [Connect to Render Key Value with ioredis](https://render.com/docs/connecting-to-redis-with-ioredis.md)
- [Setting Your Elixir and Erlang Versions](https://render.com/docs/elixir-erlang-versions.md)
- [Formspree](https://render.com/docs/formspree.md)
- [Migrating from GitHub Pages](https://render.com/docs/from-github-pages.md): Move to a Render static site in minutes.
- [Migrate MongoDB GraphQL to Render](https://render.com/docs/migrate-mongodb-graphql-to-render.md)
- [Migrate MongoDB Static Hosting to Render](https://render.com/docs/migrate-mongodb-static-hosting-to-render.md)
- [Setting Your Node.js Version](https://render.com/docs/node-version.md)
- [Setting Your Poetry Version](https://render.com/do