n8n-skills CLAUDE.md

A collection of instructions for n8n-skills, a project that teaches AI assistants to build n8n workflows. n8n is a tool for connecting services and automating multi-step tasks; the instructions cover its tools, workflow patterns, expressions, and validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, configuring, checking, or deploying n8n workflows and when working with the repository's JavaScript, node, and workflow guidance.
Why use it?
They help an agent understand how the repository's skills work together with the n8n tool server instead of treating each workflow step in isolation.

Instructions file

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skills
Per session 2,609 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,609 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02609 $0.02609
Opus 5 $0.01305 $0.01305
Sonnet 5 $0.00522 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00261 $0.00261

Measured yesterday against content hash 2a78bab91866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n-skills CLAUDE.md 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.

CLAUDE.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This is the n8n-skills repository - a collection of Claude Code skills designed to teach AI assistants how to build flawless n8n workflows using the n8n-mcp MCP server.

Repository: https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skills

Purpose: 14 complementary skills that provide expert guidance on using n8n-mcp MCP tools effectively for building n8n workflows, plus deploying the self-hosted n8n that runs them.

Architecture:

  • n8n-mcp MCP Server: Provides data access (800+ nodes, validation, templates, workflow management)
  • Claude Skills: Provides expert guidance on HOW to use MCP tools
  • Together: Expert workflow builder with progressive disclosure

Repository Structure

n8n-skills/
├── README.md              # Project overview with video
├── LICENSE                # MIT License
├── skills/                # Individual skill implementations
│   ├── n8n-expression-syntax/
│   ├── n8n-mcp-tools-expert/
│   ├── n8n-workflow-patterns/
│   ├── n8n-validation-expert/
│   ├── n8n-node-configuration/
│   ├── n8n-code-javascript/
│   ├── n8n-code-python/
│   ├── n8n-code-tool/
│   ├── n8n-error-handling/
│   ├── n8n-binary-and-data/
│   ├── n8n-subworkflows/
│   ├── n8n-agents/
│   ├── n8n-multi-instance/
│   ├── n8n-self-hosting/         # Deployment/ops skill (deploy n8n to a VM); not in the router/hooks flow
│   └── using-n8n-mcp-skills/  # Always-on router skill (loaded by SessionStart hook)
├── hooks/                 # Enforcement layer: hooks.json + SessionStart/PreToolUse/PostToolUse scripts
├── evaluations/           # Test scenarios for each skill
├── docs/                  # Documentation
├── dist/                  # Build output (gitignored — zips ship as GitHub Release assets, never committed; committed zips broke Desktop/Cowork plugin installs)
├── NOTICES                # Attribution for Apache-2.0 material adapted from n8n-io/skills
└── .claude-plugin/        # Claude Code plugin configuration

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 224 lines · 2,609 tokens per session scan A 2a78bab91866

Subscribe to this mod's changes

n8n-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository czlonkowski/n8n-skills (6,153 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,609 tokens to every session, about $0.0130 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 2026-08-30.

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