memstack-automation-n8n-workflow-builder

memstack-automation-n8n-workflow-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cwinvestments/memstack. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow-design skill for n8n, a visual tool that connects services and automates multi-step processes. It covers triggers, connected steps, data changes, webhooks, and error handling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design n8n automations that connect services, transform data, respond to webhooks, and handle errors.
Why use it?
It helps turn a manual process involving several services into a mapped workflow, while accounting for failures and data movement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the memstack plugin — 53 skills, 2 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

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 skills/cwinvestments/memstack/n8n-workflow-builder
Any agent
npx skills add cwinvestments/memstack --skill n8n-workflow-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cwinvestments/memstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 2 commands, 5 hooks.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,195 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00068 $0.02195
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01097
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00219

Measured today against content hash 98f9cc7da973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memstack-automation-n8n-workflow-builder 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 today.

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.

skills/automation/n8n-workflow-builder/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

n8n Workflow Builder: Designing automation workflow...

Designs visual n8n workflows with trigger selection, node mapping, data transformations, error handling, and webhook integration.

Activation

When this skill activates, output:

n8n Workflow Builder: Designing automation workflow...

Then execute the protocol below.

Context Guard

Context Status
User says "n8n workflow", "build a workflow", "automation workflow" ACTIVE
User says "connect services" or wants visual automation ACTIVE
User wants to automate a multi-step process with n8n ACTIVE
User needs a standalone webhook endpoint DORMANT: use Webhook Designer
User needs a cron/scheduled job without n8n DORMANT: use Cron Scheduler

Common Mistakes

Mistake Why It's Wrong
"One giant workflow" Workflows over 20 nodes become unmaintainable. Split into sub-workflows with triggers.
"No error handling" Silent failures mean lost data. Every workflow needs an Error Trigger node.
"Hardcoded credentials" Use n8n's credential store, never paste API keys into HTTP Request nodes.
"Skip testing with real data" Test with production-like payloads. Dummy data hides type mismatches and missing fields.
"Poll when you can webhook" Polling wastes resources. If the service supports webhooks, use the Webhook trigger instead.

Protocol

Step 1: Gather Workflow Requirements

If the user hasn't provided details, ask:

  1. Trigger: what starts the workflow? (webhook, schedule, app event, manual)
  2. Input: what data comes in? (payload shape, source service)
  3. Actions: what should happen step-by-step?
  4. Output: where does the result go? (database, API, email, Slack, file)
  5. Error handling: what happens if a step fails?
  6. Frequency: how often does this run? (per event, hourly, daily)

Step 2: Select Trigger Node

Trigger Type n8n Node When to Use
Incoming webhook Webhook External service sends data to you
Schedule Schedule Trigger Run at fixed intervals (cron)
App event [App] Trigger Slack message, GitHub PR, Stripe payment, etc.
Manual Manual Trigger Testing or on-demand execution
Email Email Trigger (IMAP) React to incoming emails
File change Local File Trigger Watch a directory for new files
Another workflow Execute Workflow Trigger Sub-workflow called by parent

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 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. today Changed 98f9cc7da973
  2. 4d ago First seen · 273 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A b47152652a8c

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memstack-automation-n8n-workflow-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository cwinvestments/memstack (419 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,195 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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