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n8n-binary-and-data

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By czlonkowski/n8n-skills (GitHub) · media · 6,620 stars · scanned at commit e037563

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-to…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-binary-and-data' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-binary-and-data' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named n8n-binary-and-data already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e037563e101749e630e6688d121d04529fe6ee7b' -- 'skills/n8n-binary-and-data' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/n8n-binary-and-data' ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-binary-and-data' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-binary-and-data' ~/.claude/skills/'n8n-binary-and-data' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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