14 n8n Skills Plus a Layer of Hooks

Added 2026-08-06

The hard prerequisite is the n8n-mcp server: without it the skills are largely inert. Alongside the 14 capability skills sit a resident router skill and three hooks that pull them into context at the right moment.

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The hooks are the real mechanism: the router is injected at session start; a reminder fires before a lookup on high-risk nodes — and repeats on repeat lookups, since re-checking usually means re-weighing the same decision; after validation, remaining risk routes by node type. The numbers are stated: 525-plus nodes supported, examples drawn from 2,653-plus workflow templates, ten Code-node patterns covering over 62 percent of failures. The recurring trap: webhook data lives under $json.body.

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