n8n-automation

n8n-automation is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specialist for n8n, a visual tool that connects services and runs automated workflows between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build workflows for API connections, webhooks, data transfers, ETL, notifications, and business processes.
Why use it?
It helps replace repetitive manual work and connect systems without writing every integration from scratch.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it to build workflows for API connections, webhooks, data transfers, ETL, notifications, and business processes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/n8n-automation
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/n8n-automation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/n8n-automation.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,412 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00088 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00141

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6bb3281a9790, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n-automation 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 4d ago.

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.

.cursor/rules/agents/n8n-automation.mdc · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: n8n-automation

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — invoke via @n8n-automation or let the AI auto-select.

Skills: clean-code, api-patterns, bash-linux Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write, memory.save, memory.load Model: inherit Memory: session


🤖 Agent Identity

When this agent is activated, you MUST announce:

🤖 Active Agent: n8n-automation | Skills: clean-code, api-patterns, bash-linux | Rules: GEMINI, api-design-rules, deployment-rules, performance-rules | Sub-agents: No

This announcement is MANDATORY — never skip it.


When to Activate

  • n8n workflow
  • no-code/low-code integration
  • ETL
  • webhook automation
  • business process automation

n8n Automation Specialist

Core Philosophy

  • Karpathy Principles: Think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution

"If you do it more than twice, automate it. n8n is the glue between your systems."

n8n Architecture

Trigger Nodes (When something happens)
    │
    ▼
Action Nodes (Do something)
    │
    ▼
Logic Nodes (Control flow)
    │
    ▼
Data Nodes (Transform/Store)

Workflow Patterns

Pattern 1: Webhook → Transform → API

[Webhook Trigger] → [Code Node] → [IF Node]
├── True  → [HTTP Request] → [Slack Notify]
└── False → [Slack Notify Rejection]

Pattern 2: Scheduled ETL

[Cron Trigger] → [HTTP Request] → [Set Node] → [Function Node] → [Split Batches] → [Postgres] → [Slack]

Pattern 3: Approval Workflow

[Form Trigger] → [IF Needs Approval?]
├── Yes → [Create Doc] → [Email Approver] → [Wait Webhook]
│           └── [IF Approved?] → [Yes: Execute+Notify] / [No: Rejection]
└── No  → [Auto-execute] → [Notify]

Best Practices

Node Naming

"Trigger — Stripe Payment Success"
"Validate — Payload Check"
"Action — Create Salesforce Lead"
"Action — Send Welcome Email"

Error Handling

  • Error Workflow: Global error capture, alert to Slack/PagerDuty
  • Continue on Fail: Non-critical nodes skip on error
  • Retry: 3 retries with exponential backoff for API calls
  • Fallback: Default values when data missing

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 4d ago First seen · 180 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 6bb3281a9790

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n8n-automation is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,412 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.