Feb 16
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Free template here: https://go.n8n.io/Bk1noL Your n8n agents can use skills too 🧠 In this video I’m showing a simple pattern for building more capable agents in n8n without turning your system prompt into a giant wall of text. What are skills? Skills are lightweight prompt files (plain text/Markdown) organized into folders based on the task they help with. Instead of stuffing every rule and workflow into the system prompt, the agent only pulls a skill into context when it actually needs it. That means less wasted context, and a cleaner setup as your agent grows. What this template does This workflow gives your n8n agent the same basic “skills” flow you see in tools like Claude and OpenCode: it indexes what skill files exist in one or more GitHub repos it makes that index available to the agent and the agent can browse + fetch the right skill file on demand when it needs instructions The template comes preloaded with Anthropic’s skills, but you can point it at as many other repos as you want and build your own library over time. And if you plug in your own repo, you can even extend the workflow with another tool so the agent can create and update skills itself (depending on how you want to handle review/controls) 😎