N8n Dispatch

Forwards user requests labeled state, action, or historical with text prompts to a configured n8n_dispatch MCP service and returns its response.

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only bridge that forwards user prompts to a user-registered n8n endpoint via OpenClaw's mcporter; its requirements and actions are consistent with that purpose, but provenance is minimal so exercise caution when registering endpoints or sending sensitive data.

Purpose & Capability

The name and SKILL.md describe forwarding requests to an n8n workflow. The included commands.yaml only builds a small JSON payload and calls the configured mcporter service. No unexpected credentials, binaries, or unrelated capabilities are requested.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are narrowly scoped to: register an MCP service URL and call it with two fields (requestType and text). However, the skill will forward whatever the user supplies to the configured endpoint; this can leak sensitive input if users send secrets or private data in prompts.

Install Mechanism

This is instruction-only (no install spec, no code files beyond small YAML and markdown). Nothing is written to disk or downloaded by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables or credentials. It does require you to register an mcporter service URL (which may require separate auth) — any credentials for that endpoint would be external to the skill and reasonable for the stated integration.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill does not request always:true or elevated privileges and is user-invocable only. It does not modify other skills or system-wide configuration by itself.

Assessment

This skill simply forwards the supplied requestType and text to whatever n8n endpoint you register with mcporter. Before using it: (1) only register trusted n8n endpoints (prefer HTTPS and authenticated endpoints), (2) review the n8n workflow to ensure it won't leak or store sensitive data, (3) avoid sending secrets or credentials in prompts, and (4) consider using a local or internal n8n instance rather than a public URL. The skill's package lacks a homepage or provenance metadata — if you need stronger assurance, ask the publisher for source code or documentation before enabling it in production.

n8n_dispatch Agent Skill

This skill bridges OpenClaw with your existing n8n‑dispatch service via mcporter. It exposes a single command dispatch that forwards the user’s request type and prompt to the registered MCP service.

How it works

1. The command dispatch takes two required arguments:
   • requestType – one of state, action, or historical.
   • text – the raw user prompt.
2. The skill builds a JSON payload containing those two values and calls the MCP service n8n_dispatch.
3. The n8n workflow receives the payload, processes the request, and returns a response that OpenClaw prints.

Usage

# In your OpenClaw session or a shell
n8n_dispatch dispatch state "What is the living room light status?"

The command will output something like: Requested type: state and text: What is the living room light status?

Examples

Request type	Prompt	Example command	What the service returns
state	“Is the garage door open?”	n8n_dispatch dispatch state "Is the garage door open?"	“Garage door is closed”
action	“Turn on the hallway light.”	n8n_dispatch dispatch action "Turn on the hallway light."	“Hallway light turned on”
historical	“Show me the temperature for yesterday.”	n8n_dispatch dispatch historical "Show me the temperature for yesterday."	Yesterday’s temperature: 72°F

Configuration

Place this skill in your workspace under skills/n8n_dispatch and ensure your MCP service is registered:

openclaw mcporter add \
  --name "n8n_dispatch" \
  --url "http://your-n8n-host:8080/api"

Once the skill is loaded (openclaw skills load n8n_dispatch), you can start calling dispatch from any OpenClaw session.