n8n

Tools for managing n8n, a visual system for connecting apps and automating tasks in workflows. They cover workflow details, templates, tests, execution history, validation, and versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to create, find, deploy, test, validate, update, roll back, and delete workflows, and to inspect their runs and connected nodes.
Why use it?
They reduce manual work when creating, checking, running, repairing, or updating n8n automations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/rodaddy/mcp2cli/n8n
Any agent
npx skills add rodaddy/mcp2cli --skill n8n
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rodaddy/mcp2cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00011 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2a15018ba6b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

n8n 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.

examples/skills/n8n/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

n8n

MCP tools for n8n

Quick Reference

Tool Description
get_node Get node info with progressive detail levels and multiple modes.
get_template Get template by ID.
n8n_autofix_workflow Automatically fix common workflow validation errors.
n8n_create_workflow Create workflow.
n8n_delete_workflow Permanently delete a workflow.
n8n_deploy_template Deploy a workflow template from n8n.
n8n_executions Manage workflow executions: get details, list, or delete.
n8n_get_workflow Get workflow by ID with different detail levels.
n8n_health_check Check n8n instance health and API connectivity.
n8n_list_workflows List workflows (minimal metadata only).
n8n_test_workflow Test/trigger workflow execution.
n8n_update_full_workflow Full workflow update.
n8n_update_partial_workflow Update workflow incrementally with diff operations.
n8n_validate_workflow Validate workflow by ID.
n8n_workflow_versions Manage workflow version history, rollback, and cleanup.
search_nodes Search n8n nodes by keyword with optional real-world examples.
search_templates Search templates with multiple modes.
tools_documentation Get documentation for n8n MCP tools.
validate_node Validate n8n node configuration.
validate_workflow Full workflow validation: structure, connections, expressions, AI tools.

Usage

mcp2cli n8n <tool> --params '{...}'

See references/ for detailed parameter docs per tool.

Notes

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 2a15018ba6b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

n8n is a skill published in the GitHub repository rodaddy/mcp2cli (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 476 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.