n8n-errors-execution

n8n-errors-execution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to handling failures in n8n workflow runs, where connected steps process data and call services. It covers workflow-level error handling, continuing after a node fails, retries, and deliberate error messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when debugging failed executions or configuring retries, fallback paths, error workflows, Continue On Fail, or Stop And Error nodes.
Why use it?
It helps workflows respond predictably to temporary outages, invalid data, and unexpected failures instead of stopping silently or losing useful context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when debugging failed executions or configuring retries, fallback paths, error workflows, Continue On Fail, or Stop And Error nodes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impertio-studio/n8n-claude-skill-package/n8n-errors-execution
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package --skill n8n-errors-execution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,983 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 $0.00110 $0.01983
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00198

Measured 9d ago against content hash 39572bf5f940, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n-errors-execution 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 9d 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.

skills/source/n8n-errors/n8n-errors-execution/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

n8n Error Handling & Execution Failures

Quick Reference

Mechanism Scope Purpose Configuration
Error Workflow Workflow-level Catch any unhandled failure, notify/recover Workflow Settings > Error Workflow
continueOnFail Per-node Allow workflow to continue despite node failure Node Settings > Continue On Fail
Retry on Fail Per-node Automatically retry transient failures Node Settings > Retry On Fail
Stop And Error Explicit node Deliberately fail workflow with custom message Add Stop And Error node

Error Handling Decision Tree

Workflow execution fails
├── Is the failure transient (API timeout, rate limit)?
│   ├── YES → Enable Retry on Fail on that node
│   │         Config: maxTries=3, waitBetweenTries=1000ms
│   │         └── Still fails after retries? → Falls to Error Workflow
│   └── NO → Continue below
├── Should the workflow continue despite this node failing?
│   ├── YES → Enable continueOnFail on that node
│   │         └── Check $json.error in next node for fallback logic
│   └── NO → Continue below
├── Is this a business logic validation failure?
│   ├── YES → Use Stop And Error node to fail explicitly
│   │         └── Error Workflow receives the custom error message
│   └── NO → Continue below
└── Unhandled failure
    └── ALWAYS configure an Error Workflow to catch it
        └── Error Trigger → Slack/Email/Database notification

The 4 Error Handling Patterns

Pattern 1: Error Workflow with Notifications

When: ALWAYS set up as a safety net for every production workflow.

Main Workflow → (fails) → Error Trigger → Slack/Email notification

Setup:

  1. Create a new workflow with an Error Trigger node as the start
  2. Add notification nodes (Slack, Email, HTTP Request to logging service)
  3. In the main workflow, open Workflow Settings
  4. Select the error workflow from the Error Workflow dropdown
  5. One error workflow can serve multiple production workflows

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 194 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 39572bf5f940

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n8n-errors-execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,983 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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