Use skills In n8n agent node

This template gives you a framework to use skills in any n8n agent. You can use this as a starting point and add any other tools or patterns needed for your use case.

What are “skills”?

Skills are a context management standard created by Anthropic for use in Claude code. Basically, instead of having a HUGE system prompt, skills split that into lots of small, structured instruction files that tell an agent how to do a specific kind of task. Instead of stuffing a massive prompt full of rules, the agent:

finds the relevant skill file reads it and follows the steps inside

It’s a simple pattern that makes managing system prompts for general purpose agents much more straightforward.

See an example of a skills repo [here](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins).

What this workflow does

Responds to messages in n8n Chat (or Chat Hub) Builds an “available skills” index from one or more GitHub repos Lets the agent browse folders + fetch skill files (Markdown) as needed Uses the skill content to guide how it completes tasks