Alternatives to n8n-self-hosting
n8n-self-hosting is an agent skill by czlonkowski: 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. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match n8n-self-hosting and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. using-n8n-mcp-skills leads the list (repository has 6.5K stars; active in the last 30 days). 2 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with n8n-self-hosting.
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n8n-self-hosting
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.
12 alternatives
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- 1using-n8n-mcp-skills
czlonkowski
Use when building, editing, validating, testing, or debugging an n8n workflow through the n8n-mcp MCP server — designing a flow, configuring a node, writing…
- Repository has 6.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 6.5KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2n8n-mcp-tools-expert
czlonkowski
Expert guide for using n8n-mcp MCP tools effectively.
- Repository has 6.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 6.5KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3n8n-evol-I
mwamedacen
A harness to help coding agents build, deploy, maintain, and debug multi-workflow n8n-powered automation systems.
- Supports Python and JavaScript
★ 3Last active Oct 7, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4n8n
mwamedacen
Build, deploy, resynchronize, and debug n8n workflows from reusable project files.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 3Last active Oct 6, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5n8n-workflow-automation
CraftOS-dev
Designs and outputs n8n workflow JSON with robust triggers, idempotency, error handling, logging, retries, and human-in-the-loop review queues.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 400Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6childhood
thedotmack
Babysit a shipped release after merge, publication, or deployment.
- Larger repository (102.8K stars)
★ 102.8KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7arm-templates
devops-skills
Deploy Azure resources with ARM templates and Bicep.
- Larger repository (48.4K stars)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8azure-aks
devops-skills
Deploy and manage Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.
- Larger repository (48.4K stars)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9protected-vercel-deployments
vercel-labsOfficial
Access and test Vercel deployments protected by Vercel Authentication, SSO, or Deployment Protection with agent-browser.
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (44.5K stars)
★ 44.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10n8n-automation
LeadMagic
Build n8n workflows for GTM automation — triggers, webhook-to-enrichment-to-CRM pipelines, error handling, Clay export replacement for complex cases.
- Supports Python
★ 67Last active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11secops-detection-engineering
Google LLCOfficial
Author, validate, test, and deploy YARA-L 2.0 detection rules and evaluate end-to-end detection coverage gaps in Google SecOps.
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (21.5K stars)
★ 21.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12docker
Companion-Inc
Execute research code inside isolated Docker containers for safe replication, experiments, and benchmarks.
- Repository has 10K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet