build-workflow

build-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from neurawork-git/n8n-autopilot. It costs 85 tokens per session (4,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a plain-language request into a working n8n automation. n8n is a tool for connecting services and running automated workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find suitable templates, create n8n workflows, publish them, run them through the command line, and inspect the real execution result.
Why use it?
It covers research, writing, deployment, and live testing so a workflow is not considered finished just because its configuration was created.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the n8n-autopilot plugin — 24 skills, 12 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to find suitable templates, create n8n workflows, publish them, run them through the command line, and inspect the real execution result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neurawork-git/n8n-autopilot/build-workflow
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 neurawork-git/n8n-autopilot --skill build-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurawork-git/n8n-autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install n8n-autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 12 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,100 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 $0.00085 $0.04100
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02050
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00820
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00410

Measured 10d ago against content hash 09e88e5f8cf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-workflow 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/build-workflow/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Workflow (Full Pipeline)

Take a natural-language description and ship it as a verified live execution on n8n. All three phases are mandatory. The skill is only complete after a successful execution has been inspected and reported.

Companion plugin required. This skill leans on n8n-as-code:n8n-architect (from the n8nac-marketplace plugin by Etienne Lescot) for schema research, authoring rules, and n8n best practices — installing n8n-autopilot without the companion plugin will work but you will miss the shared knowledge base. Install both:

claude plugin marketplace add EtienneLescot/n8n-as-code
claude plugin install n8n-as-code@n8nac-marketplace

Tools — all CLI

n8n-autopilot drives everything through the CLI (npx n8nac …) — use the table below. Since n8nac 2.4 a working MCP server exists (n8nac mcp, plus the read-only native-mcp assist against the instance's own MCP endpoint — see docs/MCP.md); it complements research and execution inspection but does NOT replace the CLI pipeline here: authoring stays .workflow.ts + push, and live tests stay n8nac test (binary/file payloads NEVER go through MCP).

Command Role
npx n8nac skills examples search "<q>" / info <id> / download <id> Community-template lookup (7000+ from n8nworkflows.xyz) — always Step 0
npx n8nac skills search "<q>" / node-info <name> --json / node-schema <name> --json Node discovery + exact TypeScript defs from local schemas
npx n8nac skills related "<q>" / guides "<q>" Alternative nodes + tutorials
npx n8nac skills validate <file> --strict --json Local workflow validation
npx n8nac push <file> --verify Deploy + remote-state verification in one call
npx n8nac test-plan <id> --json Infer triggerType + suggestedPayload before testing
npx n8nac test <id> --data '...' HTTP-trigger live test (webhook/chat/form)
npx n8nac execution get <execId> --include-data Inspect execution output
npx n8nac find <q> --json --remote Search existing remote workflows
npx n8nac workflow present <id> --json Resolve the user-facing n8n URL — never string-concat <host>/workflow/<id>
npx n8nac workflow credential-required <id> Check credential readiness (exit 0 = all present, exit 1 = missing)

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 lines

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 · 311 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 09e88e5f8cf0

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build-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository neurawork-git/n8n-autopilot (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,100 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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