If SSH somehow isn’t working, you can deploy a Filebrowser template into your project.

Shut down your Openclaw service, unmount your volume, and mount it to Filebrowser. You should be able to download and upload modified files from there.

I'll try, thanks! Will I be able to install other dependencies as well?

I'm not too sure how Openclaw exactly works, but if installing dependencies just involves modifying its files, then yes, you should be able to do that.

There are two approaches depending on what you need:

1. Installing system/npm dependencies (persistent across restarts)

Fork the template repo and add your dependencies to the Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y your-package

# or

RUN npm install -g your-package

Push the change → Railway redeploys with your packages baked in. This is the only reliable way since anything installed at runtime gets wiped on restart.

2. Editing files on the mounted volume

You don't need SSH for this — the OpenClaw agent itself has full access to its mounted volume (~/.openclaw). Just ask it directly:

"Create a file at ~/.openclaw/skills/my-skill/SKILL.md with the following content: ..."

or

"Run this command: npm install -g some-tool --prefix ~/.openclaw"

The agent can read, write, and execute — and since it writes to the mounted volume, changes persist across restarts.

3. Temporary shell access

If you just need a one-off session, Railway CLI gives you a shell:

railway run bash

Note: anything installed outside the volume path won't survive a redeploy.