How does your project compare to the official N8N skills?

[michalzadkowski]

There's this new page on skills.sh with official skills from different companies. Tested, with safety considered etc. Official.

One of them is this: https://skills.sh/n8n-io
They are very different to yours, but I'm interested in your opinion on how these skills relate to each other.

[czlonkowski]

Hey @michalzadkowski, good question — I get this one a lot lately.

Short version: they solve different problems and they actually play nicely together.

The n8n entry on skills.sh is a skill — a behavior pack that teaches Claude how to act around n8n (prompts, patterns, opinionated flows). n8n-mcp is an MCP server — a knowledge base and API layer that Claude can call into. It currently covers 1,396 nodes (~812 core + 584 community), 99% property coverage, 87% docs coverage, 2,709 workflow templates, plus the full n8n management API: create/update/validate/audit workflows, manage credentials, inspect executions, and so on.

So a skill says "when the user asks for a workflow, think like this", and the MCP server answers "here is the exact schema, here are 50 real templates using this node, and here is what is wrong with that config before you deploy it". One is reasoning, the other is ground truth.

I also maintain a separate skills pack at czlonkowski/n8n-skills — 7 Claude Code skills (expression syntax, validation, node config, workflow patterns, JS/Python in Code nodes, MCP tool usage) that sit on top of n8n-mcp and teach the model how to drive it well. Install with /plugin install czlonkowski/n8n-skills. That is probably the closest apples-to-apples comparison to the skills.sh entry — except ours are opinionated toward building real workflows and depend on the MCP server underneath.

TL;DR: not competing. If you are serious about building n8n workflows with Claude, run n8n-mcp + the skills pack together. Happy to help you get it set up if you want to try it.

[michalzadkowski]

Wow, thanks. I haven't really anticipated such an elaborate explanation. But as you said - since this question bubbles up frequently, it's for the benefit of all of us here. Thanks again!