agent-builder

agent-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from n8n-io/n8n. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,527 once invoked), scanned A, 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

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

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/n8n-io/n8n/agent-builder
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.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.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,527 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00073 $0.01527
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00153

Measured 2d ago against content hash 959267089b6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 2d 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.

packages/@n8n/instance-ai/skills/agent-builder/SKILL.md · 151 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. 2d ago Changed · +23 lines 959267089b6a
  2. 6d ago First seen · 128 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 8cd6646ae2ac

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agent-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository n8n-io/n8n (203,495 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,527 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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