agent-builder

agent-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from n8n-io/n8n. It costs 88 tokens per session (8,622 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide for creating or changing an n8n Agent, an automated assistant that can use instructions and connected steps to complete tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating an agent, continuing work on a specific agent, asking the builder questions, testing it, or publishing it.
Why use it?
It keeps the agent-building process focused on the user's request and makes sure required setup, testing, and publishing steps are handled.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when creating an agent, continuing work on a specific agent, asking the builder questions, testing it, or publishing it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for agent-builder

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for agent-builder

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 110
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.08622
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.03449
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00862

Measured yesterday against content hash 6b946db4347f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

agent-builder scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

call `agent_builder_publish_agent`. Never tell them to click Publish in the
packages/@n8n/instance-ai/skills/agent-builder/SKILL.md · 713 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday Changed 6b946db4347f
  2. 2d ago Changed 2a7af9fbbe9d
  3. 3d ago Changed · +37 lines da95f04ee505
  4. 4d ago Changed · +478 lines · +12 tokens per session scan A → B 5078469592db
  5. 17d ago Changed · +2 lines 4dc654b84a67
  6. 28d ago Changed · +20 lines e5208011ed45
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines 44aa2ab1bbb7
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 15933cdf05fa
  9. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +3 tokens per session 71767432b629
  10. 1mo ago First seen · 151 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 959267089b6a

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agent-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository n8n-io/n8n (208,412 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 8,622 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.