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n8n-as-code 2.6.0

Product Surface

  • Editor integrations published via Microsoft Marketplace and Open VSX
  • Shared n8nac CLI for workspace bootstrap, sync, and automation
  • AI Skills and Claude-ready agent context generation
  • MCP server for Model Context Protocol clients
  • OpenClaw plugin support
  • TypeScript transformer for n8n workflow code

Included in this release

  • TypeScript Transformer: 2.0.1-rc.7 -> 2.0.1
  • Workflow Core: 2.0.1-rc.7 -> 2.0.1
  • Manager Adapter: 2.0.5-rc.7 -> 2.0.5
  • AI Skills and Claude Integration: 2.4.0-rc.7 -> 2.4.0
  • CLI: 2.6.0-rc.7 -> 2.6.0
  • MCP Server: 2.2.0-rc.7 -> 2.2.0
  • Editor Integrations: 2.42.0-rc.7 -> 2.42.0
  • OpenClaw Plugin: 2.3.0-rc.7 -> 2.3.0

TypeScript Transformer

Package: @n8n-as-code/transformer@2.0.1

Decorator-based round-trip conversion between n8n JSON and TypeScript workflows.

Bug Fixes

  • cli,skills,mcp: cut agent round-trips and startup cost, plus the fixes the benchmark surfaced (34395b5)
  • transformer: persist continueOnFail and pass through unmodelled node properties (e03e448)
  • transformer: allow several sub-nodes on one AI input type (f0d701c)
  • transformer: persist disabled, notes and notesInFlow through workflow round-trip (904951b)

Workflow Core

Package: @n8n-as-code/workflow-core@2.0.1

Shared workflow intelligence contracts and public workflow authoring API.

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/transformer bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1

Manager Adapter

Package: @n8n-as-code/manager-adapter@2.0.5

Facade adapter from n8n-as-code surfaces to the independent n8n-manager runtime engine.

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/workflow-core bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1

AI Skills and Claude Integration

Package: @n8n-as-code/skills@2.4.0

Embedded n8n ontology, AGENTS.md generation, and Claude-oriented workflow tooling.

Features

  • skills,cli: benchmark-driven agent efficiency (batch, compact, --pin) (d633070)
  • levels: level awareness in generated context, L0 disclaimers, VS Code slider (5e69983)
  • release: adopt the openscreen RC model — main-only merges, rc cuts, manual promote (a9072d0)
  • cli: warn that push releases published workflows, add --draft (d32ff51)

Bug Fixes

  • skills: align the test dist-tag resolver with the -rc rule (1192b25)
  • skills: stop pinning @next on release branches by name (38f3446)
  • ci: stamp n8nVersion before the release commit (971bca0)
  • skills: a malformed cap must not silently reshape compact output (cdfe16b)
  • cli,skills,mcp: cut agent round-trips and startup cost, plus the fixes the benchmark surfaced (34395b5)
  • skills: harden batch command per review (tty hang, error boundary, relevance parity, bounded compact) (fe74891)
  • skills: drop benchmark-flavored skeleton, add universal examples-fetching rule (a35788a)
  • review: overlay descriptor identity, level parsing, refresh fingerprint, fetch timeout (1bbd2ef)
  • review: fail-closed MCP redirects and machine-readable --print-tag (fdc3c36)
  • skills: align display-condition semantics with n8n generator model (8eab05a)
  • validation: automatic instance probing, strict RLC shapes and ontology source selection (b37a256)
  • validation: enforce server-equivalent node gating and pre-push instance validation (81cf635)
  • release: remove untracked rc-plan.json before checking out release branch (480565d)
  • release: publish pre-releases with next dist-tag and mirror to rc (6d85ea3)
  • release: restore VS Code even/odd minor versioning for Marketplace compatibility (48821f7)
  • release: wire NODE_AUTH_TOKEN with NPM_TOKEN for npm publishing in release workflows (b84b0ad)
  • skills: update knowledge base for n8n@2.37.10 (a74dd47)
  • release: bump Node.js to 22 in release workflows to satisfy openclaw engine requirements (149ed13)
  • release: pin the release line on re-cuts, keep RC tags immutable, strict rc numbers (5ffb548)
  • release: address review — input routing, tag/head equality, bump floor, sync PR polling (b9bf114)
  • skills: update knowledge base for n8n@2.37.7 (9f8ef45)
  • skills: minify credential ontology and document formatMb (a8ae035)
  • skills: harden the packaging scripts per review (ce5a0bc)
  • @n8n-as-code/skills: stop publishing build intermediates and minify generated assets (255301e)
  • skills: fix false-positive validation for multiOptions, versioned options and defaults (7637c2e)
  • skills: resolve the custom-nodes sidecar from the workspace root (3167e7a)
  • skills: resolve node schemas by full type, not short name (27bbb0b)
  • skills: report malformed ai_languageModel connections (e86829c)
  • skills: count only enabled models toward the needsFallback input (c319fdb)
  • skills: import the adapter generator as a file URL (659019d)
  • skills: reject needsFallback: true without a fallback model (0656b5a)
  • skills: omit generated context root path (9ff50bf)
  • skills: generate worktree-safe agent guidance (c2a9f90)
  • skills: update knowledge base for n8n@2.36.8 (5ba5247)

Documentation

  • skills: document arrays on single-valued AI roles (d2b818e)

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/transformer bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1

CLI

Package: n8nac@2.6.0

Shared command-line backbone for workspace bootstrap, GitOps sync, search, and automation.

Features

  • skills,cli: benchmark-driven agent efficiency (batch, compact, --pin) (d633070)
  • levels: level awareness in generated context, L0 disclaimers, VS Code slider (5e69983)
  • cli: native MCP usage levels and per-instance schema overlay (L1) (67cc38f)
  • cli: mark folder-login as experimental and document SSO/2FA workaround (9b80f1b)
  • cli: optional /rest session folder-source for folderSync pull (fe0fb5c)
  • cli: warn that push releases published workflows, add --draft (d32ff51)

Bug Fixes

  • cli,skills,mcp: cut agent round-trips and startup cost, plus the fixes the benchmark surfaced (34395b5)
  • cli: branch setup next-step hint on managed-local mode (364c41c)
  • cli: include parser discriminator capture omitted from previous commit (a51a663)
  • review: overlay descriptor identity, level parsing, refresh fingerprint, fetch timeout (1bbd2ef)
  • review: fail-closed MCP redirects and machine-readable --print-tag (fdc3c36)
  • validation: automatic instance probing, strict RLC shapes and ontology source selection (b37a256)
  • validation: enforce server-equivalent node gating and pre-push instance validation (81cf635)
  • transformer: persist continueOnFail and pass through unmodelled node properties (e03e448)
  • cli: block folderAuth over cleartext non-loopback HTTP without opt-in (95d16a4)
  • cli: resolve CodeRabbit review feedback on fail-closed rethrow, login redirect and password flags (db15922)
  • cli: resolve review feedback on folder-login scoping and 403 license degrade (d166bab)
  • cli: remove duplicate workflowRelativePathToAbsolute declaration (8251010)
  • cli: update state filename on rename and prioritize disk scan (ce2a110)
  • cli: let uses() accept an array on single-valued AI roles (a2cebca)
  • cli: exit non-zero when push encounters conflict (46c372e)
  • transformer: persist disabled, notes and notesInFlow through workflow round-trip (904951b)
  • cli: reconcile local state before attempting the draft re-pin (2a0e0ab)
  • repair mojibake em-dashes, drop BOM, label code fences (7069711)

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/manager-adapter bumped from 2.0.5-rc.7 to 2.0.5
    • @n8n-as-code/mcp bumped from 2.2.0-rc.7 to 2.2.0
    • @n8n-as-code/skills bumped from 2.4.0-rc.7 to 2.4.0
    • @n8n-as-code/transformer bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1
    • @n8n-as-code/workflow-core bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1

MCP Server

Package: @n8n-as-code/mcp@2.2.0

Dedicated Model Context Protocol server exposing n8n-as-code tools to MCP clients.

Features

  • levels: level awareness in generated context, L0 disclaimers, VS Code slider (5e69983)
  • cli: native MCP usage levels and per-instance schema overlay (L1) (67cc38f)

Bug Fixes

  • cli,skills,mcp: cut agent round-trips and startup cost, plus the fixes the benchmark surfaced (34395b5)
  • review: overlay descriptor identity, level parsing, refresh fingerprint, fetch timeout (1bbd2ef)

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/skills bumped from 2.4.0-rc.7 to 2.4.0
    • n8nac bumped from 2.6.0-rc.7 to 2.6.0

Editor Integrations

Package: n8n-as-code@2.42.0

Marketplace and Open VSX editor integration for browsing, searching, syncing, and validating n8n workflows.

Features

  • levels: level awareness in generated context, L0 disclaimers, VS Code slider (5e69983)

Bug Fixes

  • vscode-extension: drop stale running operation events after abort and terminal state (ddaf24b)
  • vscode-extension: coalesce running operation stream events to unfreeze workbench chat (6acf0d7)
  • release: publish pre-releases with next dist-tag and mirror to rc (6d85ea3)
  • vscode-extension: add 'workflow-tree' to ExternalNavigationSource panelKind (be613f8)
  • vscode-extension: strip n8n-auth from IdP proxy requests and route browser opens through navigation broker (2af664d)
  • vscode-extension: enforce TLS verification and restrict credential forwarding to secure transports (da3c838)
  • vscode-extension: address PR review feedback on SSO flow, URL resolution and modal accessibility (03076cf)
  • vscode-extension: resolve SSO auth black screen, add open in browser and session token support (e1d74f2)

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/manager-adapter bumped from 2.0.5-rc.7 to 2.0.5
    • @n8n-as-code/skills bumped from 2.4.0-rc.7 to 2.4.0
    • @n8n-as-code/workflow-core bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1
    • n8nac bumped from 2.6.0-rc.7 to 2.6.0

OpenClaw Plugin

Package: @n8n-as-code/n8nac@2.3.0

Native OpenClaw setup and workflow operations powered by the same n8nac stack.

Features

  • skills,cli: benchmark-driven agent efficiency (batch, compact, --pin) (d633070)
  • cli: warn that push releases published workflows, add --draft (d32ff51)

Bug Fixes

  • skills: a malformed cap must not silently reshape compact output (cdfe16b)
  • cli,skills,mcp: cut agent round-trips and startup cost, plus the fixes the benchmark surfaced (34395b5)
  • skills: harden batch command per review (tty hang, error boundary, relevance parity, bounded compact) (fe74891)
  • skills: drop benchmark-flavored skeleton, add universal examples-fetching rule (a35788a)
  • skills: import the adapter generator as a file URL (659019d)
  • build: migrate openclaw plugin to subpath export and pin openclaw (14395f5)

Dependencies

  • The following workspace dependencies were updated
    • @n8n-as-code/workflow-core bumped from 2.0.1-rc.7 to 2.0.1