Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-render
Every Render endpoint, plus diff, drift, cost, audit, and orphan analytics no other Render tool ships. Trigger phrases: `diff render env vars`, `promote env vars between render services`, `check render blueprint drift`, `render monthly cost`, `clean up stale render preview environments`, `where is this render env var used`, `render incident timeline`, `render audit log search`, `use render`, `run render-pp-cli`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds multiple executable commands for Render analytics that significantly enhance the AI's capabilities in managing and auditing Render environments.
What it needs
Requires render-pp-cli installed locally. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Render — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the render-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: render-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Use render-pp-cli when you need to reason about your Render footprint as a whole, not one resource at a time. It shines for env-var promotion across environments, blueprint drift checks in CI, monthly cost rollups, preview cleanup, and audit-log forensics. For one-off interactive workflows like render psql or render ssh, the official CLI is fine — render-pp-cli covers those too but its real value is the analytical commands the dashboard hides. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Local state that compounds env diff — Compare env vars between any two services, env-groups, or a service vs an env-group, three-way diff style. Reach for this when promoting config across environments — it's the cheapest way to see what's actually different without click-through. env promote — Copy env vars from a source service or env-group to a target with --only/--exclude/--dry-run. Use when shipping a known-good staging config to prod without dragging dev-only keys along. drift — Compare a checked-in render.yaml against live workspace state and report added/removed/modified entities by name. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/render