n8n Skills for Claude
https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skills- Category
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- v1.34.0
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About
Claude Code skillset for building flawless n8n workflows — generate, debug, and validate n8n nodes and connections from natural language.
What it does
This is a modular instruction pack that teaches an AI assistant n8n conventions, workflow patterns, node setup, validation, error handling, code nodes, AI agents, and self-hosting. Skills activate from query context. Plugin hooks also route the assistant toward relevant guidance before and after selected MCP operations.
Why it's ranked here
The pack is unusually specific about failure-prone details: webhook payload location, node-type formats, property dependencies, validation profiles, binary handling, and distinct code-node contracts. Its router and hooks reinforce that guidance during tool use. The result depends heavily on the separate n8n-mcp server, but the documented coverage is substantial.
What's good
The strongest material explains concrete traps instead of offering generic prompting advice. It distinguishes regular code nodes from agent-callable code tools, covers recoverable error paths, warns about multi-instance credential writes, and separates workflow construction from deployment operations. Development guidance also calls for real MCP responses, evaluation scenarios, and verified examples.
Tradeoffs
The skills cannot execute workflows by themselves, access an n8n instance without MCP API tools, modify running workflows independently, or diagnose runtime execution failures beyond configuration guidance. Proactive hooks work only with the Claude Code or Codex plugin installation. Individual Claude.ai uploads retain description-based activation but lose those reminders.
How to use it well
Use it when an AI assistant already has n8n-mcp available and regularly creates, configures, validates, or repairs n8n workflows. Ask specific, end-to-end questions that include validation and error handling. Keep n8n itself responsible for execution and runtime investigation. Use the separate self-hosting guidance only for fresh Linux VM deployments, not workflow design.
Technical notes+
README.md defines 14 capability skills plus the always-on router and enforcement layer. hooks/hooks.json registers SessionStart, PreToolUse, and PostToolUse command hooks around selected n8n-mcp operations. mcp.json declares a streamable HTTP n8n-mcp server, while .mcp.json.example shows a local stdio configuration with optional instance credentials. plugin.json supplies the Agent Plugins manifest. build.sh discovers immediate skill directories containing SKILL.md, creates individual Claude.ai archives, and builds a complete plugin bundle. docs/DEVELOPMENT.md specifies evaluation-first authoring, real MCP response capture, and concise skill entry points; docs/MCP_TESTING_LOG.md records the supporting tool observations.
Observed
- License
- MIT for the repository as a whole; NOTICES identifies adapted Apache 2.0 material.
- Primary format
- Markdown skill documentation, with Bash automation and JSON manifests.
- Install surfaces
- Claude Code or Codex plugin bundle, individual Claude.ai skill archives, and Agent Skills-compatible directories.
- Interface
- Skill pack for the n8n-mcp MCP server; it is not a standalone workflow runtime.
- MCP transport options
- Repository configuration shows streamable HTTP and local stdio server setups.
- Structure
- Fourteen capability skills, one always-on router skill, hooks, evaluations, documentation, and distribution tooling.
Read from README.md, docs/USAGE.md, docs/DEVELOPMENT.md, docs/INSTALLATION.md, docs/MCP_TESTING_LOG.md, docs/CODE_NODE_BEST_PRACTICES.md, LICENSE, NOTICES, build.sh, mcp.json, CLAUDE.md, plugin.json, .mcp.json.example, NOTICES-APACHE-2.0.txt, hooks/hooks.json.
What it can do
Generate n8n workflows from natural language descriptions
Natural language workflow description → Complete n8n workflow with nodes and connections
Create individual n8n nodes from text prompts
Natural language node description → Configured n8n node with proper settings
Debug existing n8n workflows
Broken or malfunctioning n8n workflow → Identified issues and suggested fixes
Validate n8n workflow configurations
n8n workflow or node configuration → Validation results with error detection
Generate node connections and data mappings
Node requirements and data flow description → Proper node connections with data mapping configuration
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