n8n-self-hosting

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a devops skill usually runs commands, installs tools and uses cloud credentials.

By delorenj/skills (GitHub) · devops · 17 stars · scanned at commit ff21323

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, set up, provision, or deploy n8n on their own server/VPS/box (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, bare metal, etc.) — in either single/regular mode or queue mode with workers — or to update, back up, restore, or harden such an instance. This is for SELF-HOSTED n8n (Docker), not n8n Cloud and not buildi…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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

Found in 3 places.

n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 50sh -c 'pg_dump -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB"' \
n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 71sh -c 'cd /data && tar xzf /backup/n8n_data-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz'
n8n-self-hosting/DAY2.md, line 81docker compose exec -T postgres sh -c 'psql -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB"'

Connects to the internet

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

Found in 7 places.

n8n-self-hosting/QUEUE_MODE.md, line 76curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz
n8n-self-hosting/SECURITY.md, line 68| `NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL` left unset | ✓ | Blocks importing arbitrary npm modules in the Code node. To allow specific ones: set a comma list (e.g. `axios
n8n-self-hosting/SINGLE_MODE.md, line 50docker compose exec n8n wget -qO- http://localhost:5678/healthz # n8n itself up (internal)

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n8n-self-hosting/SINGLE_MODE.md, line 52curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz # public; retry covers ACME delay
n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 71- **DNS must already point at the box.** Compare the box's public IP (`curl -s ifconfig.me`)
n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 118- **n8n itself up (internal):** `docker compose exec n8n wget -qO- http://localhost:5678/healthz`
n8n-self-hosting/SKILL.md, line 123- **Public reachability (with retry):** `curl -fsS --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 https://<fqdn>/healthz`

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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/delorenj/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ff2132360c4a12602f752a491f896043cb60584a' -- 'n8n-self-hosting' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'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
2026-11-09	`ff21323`	92
2026-11-07	`f5cafc3`	92