n8n-autopilot

/n8n-autopilot:build-workflow "Webhook receives Stripe payment → updates Postgres → sends Slack alert"

Claude researches the exact node parameters, writes validated TypeScript, pushes to your n8n instance, and live-tests — without you touching the n8n UI.

Table of Contents

• Why This Exists
• What You Can Do
• How the Build Pipeline Works
• Skills Reference
• Setup
• Workflow Format
• Sync: Local ↔ n8n
• Plugin Structure
• Documentation
• Changelog

Why This Exists

Building n8n workflows manually means:

• Looking up node parameter names in docs
• Guessing credential key formats
• Pushing broken JSON and debugging at runtime

This plugin gives Claude Code deep n8n expertise — 537+ node schemas, 7,700 community templates, expression validation, live testing — so it can build production-quality workflows correctly the first time.

What You Can Do

Build workflows from a description

/n8n-autopilot:build-workflow "Every morning at 8am, fetch open GitHub issues, filter by label 'urgent', post summary to Slack"

/n8n-autopilot:build-workflow "HTTP webhook receives customer data, validates email, upserts to Postgres, returns confirmation"

/n8n-autopilot:build-workflow "RSS feed monitor: check every hour, detect new items, summarize with GPT-4o-mini, send digest email"

Claude runs a 3-phase pipeline automatically:

1. Research — discovers exact node types and parameters via n8nac (offline, ~5ms per node)
2. Write + Validate — writes Decorator-TS, validates against 537+ schemas, pushes to n8n
3. Deploy + Test — tests via test URL (no activation needed), classifies errors, fixes and retries

Bootstrap a new repo in one command

/n8n-autopilot:init-repo my-customer

Scaffolds the directory layout, writes a plugin-compatible CLAUDE.md, drives the n8nac ≥ 2.2 setup flow (setup --mode connect-existing + workspace pin-instance + set-sync-folder), pulls node schemas, and verifies — so the first build-workflow call works immediately.

Deploy an existing workflow file

/n8n-autopilot:deploy workflows/my-workflow.workflow.ts

Discover or repair credential IDs

/n8n-autopilot:sync-credentials                    # list live credentials
/n8n-autopilot:sync-credentials --fix-workflows    # rewrite stale IDs in workflows/, matched by credential name

--fix-workflows is what the SessionStart credential-freshness hook auto-triggers when it detects stale references.

Inventory your workflows

/n8n-autopilot:inventory

Aggregates every node type, LLM model, credential, and trigger used across workflows/**/*.workflow.ts into docs/INVENTORY.md. Useful when planning a new workflow, onboarding to an existing project, or auditing consistency across an instance.

Manage DataTable resources

/n8n-autopilot:data-tables

n8nac has no DataTable subcommand. This skill documents every /api/v1/data-tables endpoint (tables, columns, rows) with copy-paste curl recipes — the only Claude-accessible REST API path past the PreToolUse curl-block.

Check MCP health

/n8n-autopilot:check-mcps

Two-layer check: infrastructure reachability (endpoints, tokens) AND tool registration in the active Claude context. Use after setup or when MCP tools seem unavailable.

Ask for help with n8n specifics

How do I access webhook data in a Code node?

What's the correct expression syntax to reference data from a previous node?

Why is my IF node operator validation failing?

The plugin's guidance skills activate automatically — JavaScript/Python Code nodes, expression syntax, validation errors, workflow patterns.

How the Build Pipeline Works