railway-central-helper

🚄 Railway Central Station AI Helper

A Streamlit app that pulls recent threads from Railway’s community forum and uses Claude to draft helpful, engineer-style replies — so you can triage and respond to community questions faster.

What it does

Fetches the 20 most recent threads from Railway’s community GraphQL endpoint
Lets you filter to just bounty/paid threads with one click
Shows a preview of each thread’s content in an expandable card
Generates an AI-drafted reply for any thread on demand, written in the voice of a senior Railway engineer
Caches generated reviews per-session so you don’t burn API calls re-generating the same reply
Lets you pull up a review in a copyable code block

Requirements

Python 3.9+
An Anthropic API key with access to Claude

Setup

Clone the repo and install dependencies:
```
pip install streamlit requests
```
Set your Anthropic API key as an environment variable:
```
export ANTHROPIC_KEY="your-api-key-here"
```
Run the app:
```
streamlit run railway_helper.py
```

Usage

Click 🔄 Refresh Recent Threads to load the latest threads.
Optionally check Show only Bounty threads 💰 to filter to threads mentioning bounties or “$”.
Expand any thread to read its content.
Click 🤖 Get AI Review to generate a suggested reply with Claude.
Click 📋 Show for Copy to display the generated reply in a plain-text code block for easy copying.

Notes

Reviews are cached only for the current session (st.session_state) — refreshing the browser tab clears them.
Thread data is only refetched when you explicitly click Refresh Recent Threads; otherwise the app reuses what’s already loaded, so switching the bounty filter or generating reviews won’t reset your view.
Network calls (to the Railway GraphQL endpoint and the Anthropic API) use explicit timeouts and surface errors in the UI rather than failing silently.

Known limitations

The “Copy” button doesn’t use the system clipboard (Streamlit has no native clipboard API) — it displays the text in a code block for manual copy.
No pagination beyond the first 20 threads.
No persistence across sessions or users; this is a single-session helper tool, not a multi-user dashboard.