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n8n-mcp-tools-expert

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.

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The canonical home for this skill is n8n-mcp-tools-expert in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

77%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

Highly actionable with excellent workflow sequencing and validation loops, but weakened by structural redundancy across multiple overlapping sections and by references to guide files that are not present in the bundle.

Suggestions

Add the missing SEARCH_GUIDE.md, VALIDATION_GUIDE.md, and WORKFLOW_GUIDE.md to a references/ directory, or remove the references and keep that material inline consistently.

Consolidate the redundant tool-usage material currently spread across "Quick Reference", "Tool Selection Guide", "Tool Usage Patterns", "Unified Tool Reference", and "Summary" into one canonical section to cut token cost.

Drop the human-timing filler ("18s average between steps", "56s average between edits", "23s thinking, 58s fixing") which does not aid tool selection and inflates length.

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Conciseness

Content is domain-specific (not over-explaining known concepts), but the same material is repeated across "Quick Reference", "Tool Selection Guide", "Tool Usage Patterns", "Unified Tool Reference", and "Summary", and timing filler ("18s average", "56s average between edits") pads sections that could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Abundant copy-paste-ready, fully executable examples with exact parameter formats (e.g. `get_node({nodeType: "nodes-base.slack", mode: "docs"})`, `validate_node({nodeType, config, profile: "runtime"})`) covering the common cases thoroughly.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step sequences are clearly numbered (search → get_node → validate → create → validate → update → activate) with an explicit validate→fix→re-validate feedback loop (Pattern 2) and validation checkpoints throughout workflow building.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

References to SEARCH_GUIDE.md / VALIDATION_GUIDE.md / WORKFLOW_GUIDE.md are clearly signaled, but those bundle files do not exist (no references/ directory), so navigation is broken; additionally the 640-line body inlines performance tables and full tool references that belong in those separate files.

3 / 5

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Description

75%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A solid, third-person description with an explicit "Use when" clause and several concrete capability actions. It is above the midpoint but stops short of exemplary due to a slightly generic "what" statement and minor overlap with related n8n skills.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions ("searching for nodes, validating configurations, accessing templates, managing workflows") plus secondary deliverables ("tool selection guidance, parameter formats, and common patterns"), with only the catch-all "using any n8n-mcp tool" leaving minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Expert guide... Provides tool selection guidance, parameter formats, and common patterns") and when ("Use when searching for nodes, validating configurations, accessing templates, managing workflows"), though the "what" leans slightly generic ("expert guide... effectively").

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural task phrases a user would say ("searching for nodes", "validating configurations", "managing workflows") give good keyword coverage, but it lacks synonyms and surface-form variations that would push it to comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The n8n-mcp MCP-tool niche is distinct with specific triggers, but "validating configurations" overlaps with sibling skills (e.g. "n8n Validation Expert") and "using any n8n-mcp tool" broadens it within that niche, leaving minor overlap risk.

4 / 5

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Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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SKILL.md is long (645 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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