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n8n-mcp-tools-expert

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Expert guide for using n8n-mcp MCP tools effectively. Use when searching for nodes, validating configurations, accessing templates, managing workflows, organizing workflows into folders, managing credentials, auditing instance security, or using any n8n-mcp tool. Provides tool selection guidance, parameter formats, and common patterns. IMPORTANT — Always consult this skill before calling any n8n-mcp tool — it prevents common mistakes like wrong nodeType formats, incorrect parameter structures, and inefficient tool usage. If the user mentions n8n, workflows, nodes, or automation and you have n8n MCP tools available, use this skill first. Expert guide for using n8n-mcp MCP tools effectively. Use when searching for nodes, validating configurations, accessing templates, managing workflows, or using any n8n-mcp tool. Provides tool selection guidance, parameter formats, and common patterns.

When to use

• You are using the `n8n-mcp` toolset to discover nodes, validate configs, or manage workflows.
• The task involves choosing the right MCP tool or understanding its expected parameters and usage pattern.
• You need guidance on workflow creation or editing through n8n MCP rather than through the n8n UI alone.

When not to use

• Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
• Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
• Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.

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Conflict

The two copies cover the same n8n-mcp tooling domain but each contains material steps the other lacks. The czlonkowski copy is the more complete, original-style guide: it enumerates the full tool catalog (data tables, folders, credentials, audit, agents, resource resolution, instance catalog), gives a quick-reference table with success-rate/speed heuristics, and—critically—includes a 'Node JSON Hygiene' section (omit placeholder credentials, use UUID v4 node IDs, use current typeVersion) and a 'nodeType Formats' section that the other copy does not. The sickn33 copy is a wrapper that defers to a references/detailed-guide.md and adds its own material: explicit 'When to Use' triggers, a 'Limitations' section (stop and ask for clarification when inputs/permissions/safety boundaries are missing), and a more detailed Template Usage section (search by nodes/task/metadata, get_template modes, n8n_deploy_template with autoFix/autoUpgradeVersions). They also disagree on how to proceed: czlonkowski says 'Always consult this skill before calling any n8n-mcp tool' and inlines the full procedure, while sickn33 says 'Read the detailed guide before executing this skill' and treats its safety/prerequisites as mandatory. Crowning one would hide the other's real alternative (the wrapper's safety/limitations framing and template-search modes vs. the original's JSON-hygiene and nodeType-format rules).