Turns YOUR repo classification (you scan the repo and pass what you found) into a complete, approvable deploy plan WITHOUT creating anything. ⚡ REDU NEEDS THREE FILES IF THEY EXIST - redu.md, the compose file, the Dockerfile - and there are two ways to give them. ⭐ BEST, for an upload-mode deploy: run prepare_upload FIRST and pass its `source_token`; redu reads all three straight out of the upload you already made, the upload stays deployable, and you emit nothing. Pasting the same files costs you 20-29 KB of output for bytes the server already has. Otherwise (git mode) paste `redu_md` (cat redu.md), `compose_yaml`, `dockerfile`. Either way you do NOT read or interpret them; redu parses them SERVER-SIDE and returns (a) a short digest, (b) `pin_dname` so a redeploy keeps the SAME public URL, and (c) `preflight` - preemptive fixes for known failure patterns found in YOUR repo, each learned from a real failed build. Giving redu these files is the single highest-value thing you can do for a first deploy. picks the VM + managed-Postgres sizes, prices them at the real pricing_rules rates, and checks they FIT your quota — so a plan that can't provision is caught HERE, before any spend. You pass what you detected in the repo (runtime, port, needs_postgres/redis/clickhouse/vector_db); it returns resources + £/hr + £/mo + a feasibility verdict + a checkpoint summary to confirm with the user. Defaults: app VM m1.medium, managed Postgres m1.small, managed ClickHouse m1.medium; pass single_vm to collapse the app + Postgres onto one VM. SET needs_clickhouse:true FOR ANY ANALYTICS-SHAPED APP (Plausible, PostHog, Langfuse, Matomo, SigNoz, or anything with a clickhouse image / CLICKHOUSE_* env / a ClickHouse client dep): those products keep config in Postgres and EVERY EVENT in ClickHouse, so the events tier is a second VM with a second line on the bill: measured 2026-08-07, omitting it quoted GBP 53.29/mo for a GBP 65.99/mo deployment. It is sized, quota-checked and priced here; unlike Postgres and Redis it is not auto-wired by deploy_app, so the plan tells you to run plan_managed_datastore engine:'clickhouse' -> create_clickhouse and pass CLICKHOUSE_* env yourself. Vector-DB needs are flagged, not provisioned. Any containerizable app works (node, python, go, ...) — it deploys as a container, so the language doesn't gate it. Set serves_http:false for a non-web repo (a library, CLI, or language runtime with no HTTP server) and it returns a clean not-a-web-service verdict instead of a costed VM plan. Set heavy_build:true for resource-heavy builds (compiled-from-source native code, a monorepo/turborepo build, a large Node heap) and it raises the app VM to a build-capable floor so the on-VM build doesn't get OOM-killed. Set memory_heavy:true for a RAM-forward app whose persistent state lives in a MANAGED DB / external store (Next.js like cal.com/cal.diy, Rails, Django, JVM/Java apps) — it sizes onto a memory-optimized SMALL-DISK flavor (m1.mem16/m1.mem32: full RAM, a lean 40 GB disk instead of 160 GB) that costs less and snapshots/clusters far faster; do NOT set it if the app keeps lots of data on local disk. Also returns a brand-named markdown report (Mermaid diagram + cost) to save as redu-deploy-plan.md and show the user. Every deploy leaves TWO MANDATORY files at the repo root with DIFFERENT purposes: redu-deploy-plan.md = THIS run's plan/estimate, and redu.md = the DURABLE deploy memory the NEXT deploy reads. If a redu.md exists, READ it FIRST and reuse its known-good plan + recorded fixes; if NONE exists, one MUST be created at the end of the deploy (get_deployment returns redu_md_bootstrap_markdown for exactly that case; when a redu.md DOES exist, pass it as redu_md and write the merged redu_md_markdown). They are SEPARATE files — even if your own memory/notes from a prior deploy call redu-deploy-plan.md 'the record', the durable record is redu.md, so do not skip creating it.
