N8n-MCP: AI assistants can now search and build n8n workflows
n8n-MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that enables AI assistants like Claude to access comprehensive n8n workflow automation node data, documentation, and templates. It supports over 1,650 nodes and integrates with various AI-powered IDEs to help developers build and validate workflows efficiently. The project, maintained by a single developer, encourages sponsorship to support ongoing development and maintenance.
- ▪n8n-MCP provides AI assistants with access to 1,650 n8n nodes, including 820 core and 830 community nodes.
- ▪It offers 99% coverage of node properties, 87% documentation coverage, and access to 2,352 workflow templates with nearly full AI metadata.
- ▪The tool integrates with AI IDEs like Claude Code, VS Code, and Cursor, and supports both hosted and self-hosted deployment.
- ▪Users are warned not to edit production workflows directly with AI and to always test changes in a development environment first.
- ▪Sponsorship is encouraged to help maintain compatibility, add features, and keep documentation up to date.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-mcp |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 09:09:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T09:15:17.943Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T09:15:17.943Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qnPthFsQ3w8Y |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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n8n-MCP A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI assistants with comprehensive access to n8n node documentation, properties, and operations. Deploy in minutes to give Claude and other AI assistants deep knowledge about n8n's 1,650 workflow automation nodes (820 core + 830 community). Overview n8n-MCP serves as a bridge between n8n's workflow automation platform and AI models, enabling them to understand and work with n8n nodes effectively. It provides structured access to: 1,650 n8n nodes - 820 core nodes + 830 community nodes (741 verified) Node properties - 99% coverage with detailed schemas Node operations - 63.6% coverage of available actions Documentation - 87% coverage from official n8n docs (including AI nodes) AI tools - 265 AI-capable tool variants detected with…
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