n8n Skills

MIT licensed · 14 skills + router · Agent Plugin ready

n8n Skills

The expert skill pack for production-ready n8n workflows

Install the skills alone, or load the complete plugin with hosted n8n-mcp already connected over OAuth.

  1. you ask

    Build a webhook → Slack flow

    prompt

  2. router fires

    using-n8n-mcp-skills

    SessionStart hook

  3. skill loads

    n8n-workflow-patterns

    1 of 14

  4. it ships

    Validated workflow

    no error loop

$ npx skills add czlonkowski/n8n-skills
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Need it built for you?

AiAdvisors audits, builds, and operates production n8n automation — led by the author of n8n-mcp and n8n-skills.

Work with AiAdvisors

Runs in

Claude Code

CLI & IDE

Claude Desktop

Desktop app

Claude.ai

Web

The skills use the open Agent Skills format. The same repository also ships Agent Plugin manifests that connect supported clients to hosted n8n-mcp.

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agent plugin

Skills and n8n-mcp, wired together

The repository is more than a folder of Markdown. Its portable plugin package pairs the complete skill pack with the hosted n8n-mcp service while keeping authentication out of the manifest.

Portable Agent Plugin

The repository ships Agent Plugin 1.0 manifests alongside the skills, ready for clients that support the open package layout.

Hosted MCP over OAuth

The plugin points to n8n-mcp over Streamable HTTP. Authentication stays in the OAuth flow — no API key is copied into the package.

Current n8n surface

Guidance now covers routed workflow operations, agent and resource discovery, folders, data tables, credentials, and production operations.

Inspect the Agent Plugin manifest
the pack

Fourteen skills, one canvas

Each one owns a class of failure. They compose: a single workflow build can pull in patterns, node configuration, expressions, and validation without you naming any of them.

Expression Syntax

n8n-expression-syntax

$json, $node, and $now patterns — plus the webhook-data-lives-under-body gotcha that breaks most first drafts.

MCP Tools Expert

n8n-mcp-tools-expert

The right n8n-mcp route for workflows, folders, credentials, data tables, agents, resources, and every validation stage.

Workflow Patterns

n8n-workflow-patterns

Five architectures drawn from real templates: webhook, HTTP API, database, AI agent, and scheduled runs.

Validation Expert

n8n-validation-expert

Read errors and warnings correctly, handle routed test runs, separate real failures from false positives, and exit the fix loop.

Node Configuration

n8n-node-configuration

Operation-aware requirements for nodes and official MCP resources, so every field is configured with the right context.

Code JavaScript

n8n-code-javascript

Production-tested Code node patterns with $input, $json, and this.helpers — and the top five failure modes.

Code Python

n8n-code-python

Python in Code nodes, with a straight answer on the standard library and what simply isn't available.

Code Tool

n8n-code-tool

The AI-callable Custom Code Tool: string returns, the query binding, input schemas — a different node entirely.

Error Handling

n8n-error-handling

Error outputs, retryOnFail, 4xx/5xx response shapes, and Error Trigger runs. Failures get loud, not silent.

Binary & Data

n8n-binary-and-data

Files, images, and PDFs: $binary versus $json, keeping binary alive across transforms, agent-tool boundaries.

Sub-workflows

n8n-subworkflows

Typed inputs, all-versus-each execution, discoverable naming, and exposing a workflow as an agent tool.

AI Agents

n8n-agents

Agent, chain, or classifier; model, memory, tools, parsers, $fromAI, RAG, and official MCP agent operations.

Multi-Instance

n8n-multi-instance

Target the right instance across prod, staging, and clients — and never write a credential to the wrong one.

Self-Hosting

n8n-self-hosting

Production n8n with Caddy and Docker Compose: single or queue mode, managed OAuth, backups, updates, and hardening.

read the sourceEvery skill is plain markdown. Open one and see exactly what your agent is told.Browse on GitHub
enforcement layer

Guidance that arrives on time

A skill only helps if it loads at the moment of the decision. The plugin ships a router and hooks that surface the right one then — not only when your question happens to match a description.

Router skill

A SessionStart hook loads it into every session. It points at the skill that owns the decision, covers the full n8n-mcp surface, and re-fires after resume, clear, and compact.

PreToolUse hooks

Before a high-impact n8n-mcp call, a reminder names the relevant skill. Looking up Set, Code, Merge, Loop Over Items, DateTime, Data Table, or AI Agent fires a node-specific one. Credentials and instance switches get their own.

PostToolUse hooks

After validate_workflow, the node types get inspected and you're routed to whatever still carries risk — because a workflow passing validation is necessary, not sufficient.

Hooks run in the Claude Code and Codex plugin installs. Elsewhere the skills still activate by description — the pack degrades gracefully, just without the nudges. Every hook fails open and never blocks a tool call.

install

Pick your surface

Choose the complete Agent Plugin when your client supports it, or install the skills on their own. Self-hosted setups can keep using their own n8n-mcp configuration.

Agent Plugin package

Skills + hosted n8n-mcp

complete stack

Loads all 14 specialist skills and the router, then declares the hosted n8n-mcp endpoint over Streamable HTTP. The client completes OAuth without storing an API key in the plugin package.

Get the Agent Plugin package
skills.sh

Skills-only install for any agent

skills only
$ npx skills add czlonkowski/n8n-skills

Installs all 14 skills plus the router into whichever agent you use — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and the rest. Configure n8n-mcp separately when the client is not loading the Agent Plugin.

View the listing
Claude Code plugin

Includes the hooks layer

$ /plugin install czlonkowski/n8n-skills
  1. 01Open Add Marketplace and enter the repository address
  2. 02Enable the plugin under Manage Plugins
  3. 03Restart Claude Code

All 14 skills, the router, and the hooks enforcement layer come up after the restart.

Claude.ai & Desktop

Upload skills one by one

Download the per-skill zips from the latest release, then go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload Skill.

The complete bundle zip is Claude Code only — it uses a nested plugin structure Claude.ai can't read.

Direct file copy

For local installs

$ git clone https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skills.git
$ cp -r n8n-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

Available immediately. Copying folders skips the hooks layer — use the plugin install to get it.

walkthrough

Watch it work

Installing the pack and building a workflow with it, end to end.