n8n-self-hosting

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a devops skill usually runs commands, installs tools and uses cloud credentials.

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

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 Clou…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: n8n.example.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a devops skill.

Found in 7 places.

skills/n8n-self-hosting/CREDENTIAL_OVERWRITES.md, line 51curl -sS -X POST "https://n8n.example.com/${CREDS_OVERWRITE_PATH}" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${CREDS_OVERWRITE_TOKEN}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
skills/n8n-self-hosting/QUEUE_MODE.md, line 166curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz
skills/n8n-self-hosting/SINGLE_MODE.md, line 66docker compose exec n8n wget -qO- http://localhost:5678/healthz # n8n itself up (internal)

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skills/n8n-self-hosting/SINGLE_MODE.md, line 68curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz # public; retry covers ACME delay
skills/n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 80- **DNS must already point at the box.** Compare the box's public IP (`curl -s ifconfig.me`)
skills/n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 130- **n8n itself up (internal):** `docker compose exec n8n wget -qO- http://localhost:5678/healthz`
skills/n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 135- **Public reachability (with retry):** `curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz`

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

skills/n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 26(`docker run --rm --entrypoint cat n8nio/runners:<new-tag> /etc/n8n-task-runners.json`). A
skills/n8n-self-hosting/TASK_RUNNERS.md, line 131docker run --rm --entrypoint cat n8nio/runners:<tag> /etc/n8n-task-runners.json > n8n-task-runners.json

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a devops skill.

Found in 12 places.

skills/n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 100sh -c 'pg_dump -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB"' \
skills/n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 134sh -c 'cd /data && tar xzf /backup/n8n_data-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz'
skills/n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 144docker compose exec -T postgres sh -c 'psql -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB"'

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hooks/hooks.json, line 9"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/session-start.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 20"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/get-node.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 29"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/create-workflow.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 38"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/update-workflow.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 47"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/validate-workflow.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 56"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/test-workflow.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 65"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/instances.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 74"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-tool-use/manage-credentials.sh"
hooks/hooks.json, line 85"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/post-tool-use/validate-workflow.sh"

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. Expected for a devops skill.

Found in 1 place.

skills/n8n-self-hosting/TASK_RUNNERS.md, line 143`RUN cd /opt/runners/task-runner-python && uv pip install pandas`. Then list them in

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-self-hosting' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-self-hosting' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named n8n-self-hosting 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 "$d" checkout --quiet 'e037563e101749e630e6688d121d04529fe6ee7b' -- 'skills/n8n-self-hosting' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/n8n-self-hosting' ~/.agents/skills/'n8n-self-hosting' && 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-self-hosting' ~/.claude/skills/'n8n-self-hosting' (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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`e037563`	67
2026-11-06	`e037563`	57