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n8n-self-hosting

An AI agent skill from czlonkowski/n8n-skills, scored 80 out of 100 by code and Verified.

80/ 100BVerified

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description20/20
  • Procedure10/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources10/10
  • Scripts6/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Done criteria (11), the group that checks whether there is a checklist and a step that verifies the work.

What the author says it does

Deploy a production self-hosted n8n end-to-end to a fresh Linux VM over SSH, using Docker Compose behind a Caddy reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS. Use whenever the user wants to self-host, install, provision, or deploy n8n on their own server/VPS (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, bare metal) — single/regular mode or queue mode with workers — or to update, back up, restore, or harden such an instance, or make Python Code nodes run on it (task runners). For SELF-HOSTED n8n (Docker), not n8n Cloud and not building workflows. The skill makes the agent ask single-vs-queue first, collect domain/SS…

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-self-hosting
License
MIT
GitHub stars
6,634
SKILL.md lines
190
Other files
13

Add n8n-self-hosting to your agent

npx skills add czlonkowski/n8n-skills --skill n8n-self-hosting

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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