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With n8n Workflow Skills added, your AI can understand and work with your n8n workflows directly. It reads how a workflow is put together and can operate on it for you, so you no longer have to dig through automation setups yourself. This is useful for anyone who builds or maintains automations in n8n.

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Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

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Add the skill, then ask your AI about one of your n8n workflows to see what it can do. From there you can request changes or have it work with the workflow for you.

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What your AI can do with it

Read and explain what an n8n workflow does
Answer questions about the steps and structure of a workflow
Make changes to existing n8n workflows
Operate n8n workflows on your behalf

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors in connectors/n8n/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

Purpose

Read and write the user's n8n workflows through the n8n public REST API: list workflows, inspect a workflow, create and update workflows, and list executions. Use when the user mentions n8n or their automations.

Tooling

All commands go through bin/n8n.py. Every command takes a required --host: your instance base URL, e.g. https://myname.app.n8n.cloud or https://n8n.example.com (self-hosted).

bin/n8n.py auth --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud                    # verify the API key
bin/n8n.py workflows --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud              # list workflows
bin/n8n.py workflow --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud --id wf_abc   # inspect one workflow
bin/n8n.py create --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud --name "Nightly sync" --nodes-json '[{"name":"Start",...}]'  # create a workflow
bin/n8n.py update --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud --id wf_abc --workflow-json '{"name":"Nightly sync v2","nodes":[...]}'  # update a workflow (confirm first)
bin/n8n.py executions --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud             # list executions
bin/n8n.py executions --host https://myname.app.n8n.cloud --workflow-id wf_abc  # executions for one workflow

Updates use the "GET first, strip, modify, PUT" pattern: PUT is a full replace, so the CLI fetches the current workflow, strips forbidden fields (pinData, settings), merges your changes, and then PUTs. Never PUT a partial object.

Auth

Provider id: n8n (credential is collected as custom.n8n)
Collection: API key via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access); created in n8n under Settings > n8n API. The key is sent in the X-N8N-API-KEY header.
Allowed hosts: your n8n instance host, declared at connect time (the --host you pass; validated to start with http:// or https://)
Status check: bin/n8n.py auth --host <your-host> (must return "ok": true)

Operating Rules

update is a destructive write: PUT replaces the whole workflow. Confirm the workflow ID and exactly what changes before running, unless standing permission exists. The CLI always GETs the current workflow first and strips forbidden fields (pinData, settings) before PUT.
There is no execute-by-ID endpoint in the n8n public API; running a workflow goes through its webhook trigger URL, which is separate from this CLI.
The public REST API is unavailable on n8n Cloud free trials (Starter plan or higher; self-hosted instances always work).
Reading (workflows, executions) needs no confirmation.
Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates. Do not print, log, or transmit the key value.

Files

SKILL.md
bin/n8n.py

Maturity

🧪 Draft: written from n8n's public API docs; not yet live-tested end-to-end.

Signals

GitHub stars: 1k
Forks: 282
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: n8n
Source: github.com/anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors

github.com/anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors

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