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n8n-binary-and-data

An AI agent skill from czlonkowski/n8n-skills, scored 76 out of 100 by code.

76/ 100B

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description12/20
  • Procedure7/15
  • Done criteria15/15
  • Resources10/10
  • Scripts2/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Description (8), the group that checks whether the description says what the skill does and when to use it.

What the author says it does

Handle files and binary data in n8n correctly. Use when working with files, images, PDFs, attachments, uploads or downloads, base64, vision/multimodal input, or when an AI agent needs a file as tool input or output — and whenever the user mentions $binary, binaryPropertyName, "read the PDF", "attach the file", "send the image", Merge losing binary, or a CDN for chat images. Covers the $binary vs $json split, reading/writing binary, keeping binary alive across transforms with Merge, the agent-tool binary boundary, and the CDN/URL requirement for chat surfaces.

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
czlonkowski/n8n-skills
Folder
skills/n8n-binary-and-data
License
MIT
GitHub stars
6,634
SKILL.md lines
250
Other files
5

Add n8n-binary-and-data to your agent

npx skills add czlonkowski/n8n-skills --skill n8n-binary-and-data

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