n8n-syntax-workflow-json

n8n-syntax-workflow-json is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for the JSON format n8n uses to save automated workflows. JSON is a text format for structured data, and this guide describes workflow fields, nodes, parameters, and connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, export, import, validate, and debug n8n workflow JSON, including the links between nodes and their outputs.
Why use it?
It helps prevent imports and generated workflows from failing because fields, node settings, or connections are shaped incorrectly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create, export, import, validate, and debug n8n workflow JSON, including the links between nodes and their outputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impertio-studio/n8n-claude-skill-package/n8n-syntax-workflow-json
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package --skill n8n-syntax-workflow-json
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 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,550 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 $0.00133 $0.02550
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01275
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00255

Measured 10d ago against content hash b69ea553ff76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n-syntax-workflow-json 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 10d 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-syntax/n8n-syntax-workflow-json/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

n8n-syntax-workflow-json

Quick Reference

Workflow JSON Top-Level Structure (IWorkflowBase)

Field Type Required Purpose
id string YES Unique workflow identifier
name string YES Human-readable workflow name
active boolean YES Whether workflow listens for triggers
isArchived boolean YES Whether workflow is archived
nodes INode[] YES Array of all nodes in the workflow
connections IConnections YES Connection map between nodes
settings IWorkflowSettings NO Workflow-level configuration
staticData IDataObject NO Persistent data (polling state, etc.)
pinData IPinData NO Pinned test data for manual execution
description string | null NO Workflow description
versionId string NO Version identifier
meta WorkflowFEMeta NO Frontend metadata (template ID, etc.)

INode Fields

Field Type Required Purpose
id string YES Unique node ID (UUID format)
name string YES Display name (MUST be unique in workflow)
type string YES Node type (e.g., n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest)
typeVersion number YES Node version number
position [number, number] YES Canvas position [x, y]
parameters INodeParameters YES Node parameter values
credentials INodeCredentials NO Credential references
disabled boolean NO Whether node is disabled
notes string NO User-visible notes
notesInFlow boolean NO Show notes on canvas
webhookId string NO Webhook ID (webhook nodes only)
retryOnFail boolean NO Retry on error
maxTries number NO Max retry attempts
waitBetweenTries number NO Milliseconds between retries
alwaysOutputData boolean NO Output empty item if no data
executeOnce boolean NO Execute only for first item
onError OnError NO Error behavior strategy
continueOnFail boolean NO Continue workflow on error

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 10d ago First seen · 272 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A b69ea553ff76

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n8n-syntax-workflow-json is a skill published in the GitHub repository Impertio-Studio/n8n-Claude-Skill-Package (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,550 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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