docs: document railway ssh and clarify that railway run executes locally#30
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- Add 'Shell access' section to operate.md covering railway ssh usage, the railway run vs railway ssh distinction, and SSH key setup - Add railway ssh to the common quick operations table in SKILL.md - Add execution rule railwayapp#6 explicitly warning that railway run is local - Add ssh docs and CLI source to 'Validated against' block
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Summary
operate.mddocumentingrailway sshfor interactive shells and one-off commands inside running containersrailway runis notrailway ssh—railway runexecutes locally with injected env vars, not inside the remote containerrailway sshto the common quick operations table inSKILL.mdSKILL.mdwarning thatrailway runis local-onlyValidated againstwith SSH docs and CLI source linksMotivation
Without this documentation, AI agents using this skill naturally reach for
railway runwhen asked to execute a command "on" a service, since it's the only relevant command visible. This leads to silently wrong behaviour — the command runs locally, not remotely — and the agent has no way to know it made a mistake.railway sshis already used extensively in the analysis scripts (dal.py,analyze-*.py) but is never surfaced in the main skill references where agents would discover it.