Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/buttjer/n8n-decanter/n8n-skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buttjer/n8n-decanterWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00027 | $0.01633 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00816 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00327 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00163 |
Grade A, and why
n8n-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Use the official n8n skills. They are the best way to give your coding agent real n8n expertise, and n8n-decanter is built to pair with them, not to replace them. It rides n8n's own MCP server and skills for everything about workflow structure and lifecycle, and owns just one layer on top: the Code-node source. The skills fill in the knowledge decanter deliberately doesn't duplicate.
The one thing to know is the boundary — and decanter enforces it for you technically, so pairing the two is safe by construction. This page explains the integration, then how to turn it on.
What the skills are
n8n-io/skills is n8n's first-party agent knowledge pack: capability skills
(markdown + inline examples) plus a routing meta-skill and reference docs,
installed as a plugin (not an npm dependency). They come in two kinds, and
the split matters here:
- Knowledge skills — lean on these freely. Conceptual, standalone guidance
for the runtime your Code-node files execute in. They document the same n8n
your
.js/.tsnodes run against, with no instance mutation:n8n-code-nodes-officialn8n-expressions-officialn8n-loops-officialn8n-error-handling-officialn8n-credentials-and-security-officialn8n-binary-and-data-officialn8n-data-tables-officialn8n-debugging-official
- Build / lifecycle skills — the default path for structure.
n8n-workflow-lifecycle-official,n8n-node-configuration-official,n8n-subworkflows-official,n8n-agents-official,n8n-extending-mcp-official. These drive the n8n MCP server to create, build, wire, rename, publish, and archive workflows — which, under n8n-decanter, is exactly how structure work happens (decanter has no structure verbs of its own). The single carve-out is below.
The plugin installs the whole pack (you can't cherry-pick), and it isn't
aware of this repo's layout. That's fine — the MCP guard plus the scaffolded
AGENTS.md, not selective installation, are what hold the boundary.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- yesterday First seen · 133 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8f8ecaff292c
n8n-skills is an agent published in the GitHub repository buttjer/n8n-decanter (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,633 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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