n8n-skills is a collection of Claude Code skills and hooks that guide AI assistants in creating, validating, and deploying n8n workflows through the n8n-mcp server. Developers use it to automate workflow construction, configure nodes and expressions, resolve validation errors, and operate self-hosted n8n. The catalogue entries are its skills, hooks, plugins, and instruction.
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 skills add czlonkowski/n8n-skills --skill n8n-mcp-tools-expertgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/n8n-mcp-tools-expert)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/n8n-mcp-tools-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/n8n-mcp-tools-expert/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/n8n-mcp-tools-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/czlonkowski/n8n-skills/n8n-mcp-tools-expert.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00135 | $0.07926 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00068 | $0.03963 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00027 | $0.01585 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00793 |
Grade A, and why
n8n-mcp-tools-expert 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 13d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to n8n-mcp-tools-expert — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 483 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
n8n MCP Tools Expert
Master guide for using n8n-mcp MCP server tools to build workflows.
Tool Categories
n8n-mcp provides tools organized into categories:
- Node Discovery → SEARCH_GUIDE.md
- Configuration Validation → VALIDATION_GUIDE.md
- Workflow Management → WORKFLOW_GUIDE.md
- Template Library - Search and deploy 2,700+ real workflows
- Data Tables - Manage n8n data tables, rows and columns (
n8n_manage_datatable) - Workflow Folders - Folder CRUD + workflow placement (
n8n_manage_folders) - Credential Management - Full credential CRUD + schema discovery (
n8n_manage_credentials) - Security & Audit - Instance security auditing with custom deep scan (
n8n_audit_instance) - Documentation & Guides - Tool docs, AI agent guide, Code node guides
- Agents - Create, configure, validate, run and publish persisted n8n Agents (
n8n_manage_agents, requiresN8N_MCP_ACCESS_TOKEN) - Node Resource Resolution - Resolve live dropdown/resource-locator values with a real credential (
n8n_explore_node_resources, requiresN8N_MCP_ACCESS_TOKEN) - Instance Catalog - List projects and tags (
n8n_list_catalog)
Quick Reference
Most Used Tools (by success rate)
| Tool | Use When | Speed |
|---|---|---|
search_nodes |
Finding nodes by keyword | <20ms |
get_node |
Understanding node operations (detail="standard") | <10ms |
validate_node |
Checking configurations (mode="full") | <100ms |
n8n_create_workflow |
Creating workflows | 100-500ms |
n8n_update_partial_workflow |
Editing workflows (MOST USED!) | 50-200ms |
validate_workflow |
Checking complete workflow | 100-500ms |
n8n_deploy_template |
Deploy template to n8n instance | 200-500ms |
n8n_manage_datatable |
Managing data tables and rows | 50-500ms |
n8n_manage_folders |
Folder CRUD + organizing workflows | 100-500ms |
n8n_manage_credentials |
Credential CRUD + schema discovery | 50-500ms |
n8n_audit_instance |
Security audit (built-in + custom scan) | 500-5000ms |
n8n_autofix_workflow |
Auto-fix validation errors | 200-1500ms |
n8n_manage_agents |
Persisted n8n Agent CRUD/validate/publish | 150-400ms; call action: 5-60s |
n8n_explore_node_resources |
Resolve live loadOptions/listSearch values | 200 ms - 5 s |
n8n_list_catalog |
List projects or tags | 50-300ms |
What ships with it
5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 483 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 14836b4d7a9b
n8n-mcp-tools-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository czlonkowski/n8n-skills (6,215 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 7,926 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to n8n-mcp-tools-expert, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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