n8n-cli

n8n-cli is a skill for Claude Code from n8n-io/n8n. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A command-line tool for managing an n8n instance, the running installation of n8n used by a person or team. It can work with workflows, credentials, executions, and other n8n resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage workflows, credentials, and workflow runs, and to perform other supported n8n administration tasks from the command line.
Why use it?
It lets developers operate n8n from a terminal instead of managing these resources manually through its interface.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to manage workflows, credentials, and workflow runs, and to perform other supported n8n administration tasks from the command line.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n8n-io/n8n/n8n-cli
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 n8n-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,003 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, 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 Rogue Agent · line 4
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 251
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00055 $0.02003
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8ede540cb5c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n-cli 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 8d 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/cli/skills/n8n-cli/SKILL.md · 269 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. 8d ago First seen · 269 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 8ede540cb5c1

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n8n-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository n8n-io/n8n (203,589 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,003 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.