n8n CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for working on n8n, a workflow automation platform that connects services and can include custom code and AI features.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding development work in the n8n codebase, whether it is self-hosted or cloud-based.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project context and rules it should follow when changing n8n.

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/n8n-io/n8n/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
Per session 5 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00005 $0.00005
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00003
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured yesterday against content hash 336cc4fbf19b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n 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 · 2 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 2 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 336cc4fbf19b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

n8n CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository n8n-io/n8n (202,853 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 5 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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.