n8n MCP
n8n's own MCP server, built right into your instance. Lets an agent create, check, test, and publish workflows on your n8n account.
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n8n's own MCP server, built right into your instance. Lets an agent create, check, test, and publish workflows on your n8n account.
View config snippet
{
"mcpServers": {
"n8n-mcp": {
"url": "https://your-n8n-instance.example.com/mcp-server/http"
}
}
}Authentication: OAuth
Capabilities
- Create and update workflows from code.
- Validate a workflow and inspect its connections and node details.
- Test a workflow against real or pinned data.
- Publish and archive workflows.
- Manage folders and per-workflow MCP access.
Limitations
- Needs your own n8n instance URL, plus Instance-level MCP turned on under Settings.
- Only works against your own n8n instance: n8n Cloud or self-hosted, version 2.2.0 or later.
- Does not run standalone; there is no shared or hosted server behind this connector.