Implements comprehensive execution data filtering system to enable AI agents
to inspect large workflow executions without exceeding token limits.
Features:
- Preview mode: Shows structure, counts, and size estimates (~500 tokens)
- Summary mode: Returns 2 sample items per node (~2-5K tokens)
- Filtered mode: Granular control with itemsLimit and nodeNames
- Full mode: Complete data retrieval (explicit opt-in)
- Smart recommendations based on data size analysis
- Structure-only mode (itemsLimit: 0) for schema inspection
- 100% backward compatibility with legacy includeData parameter
Technical improvements:
- New ExecutionProcessor service with intelligent filtering logic
- Type-safe implementation with Record<string, unknown> over any
- Comprehensive validation and error handling
- 33 unit tests with 78% coverage
- Constants-based thresholds for easy tuning
Bug fixes:
- Fixed preview mode API data fetching to enable structure analysis
- Validates and caps itemsLimit to prevent abuse
Impact:
- Reduces token usage by 80-95% for large datasets (50+ items)
- Prevents token overflow when inspecting workflow executions
- Enables recommended workflow: preview → recommendation → targeted fetch
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Implements 4 new features for n8n_update_partial_workflow:
New Operations:
- cleanStaleConnections: Auto-remove broken workflow connections
- replaceConnections: Replace entire connections object in one operation
Enhanced Features:
- removeConnection ignoreErrors flag: Graceful cleanup without failures
- continueOnError mode: Best-effort batch operations with detailed tracking
Impact:
- Reduces broken workflow fix time from 10-15 minutes to 30 seconds
- Token efficiency: 1 cleanStaleConnections vs 10+ manual operations
- 15 new tests added, all passing
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The 5-operation limit was overly conservative and unnecessary. Analysis showed:
- Workflow is cloned before modifications (no original mutation)
- All operations validated before any are applied (true atomicity)
- First error causes immediate return (no partial state possible)
- Two-pass processing handles dependencies correctly
Changes:
- Remove hard-coded 5-operation limit check from workflow-diff-engine.ts
- Update tool descriptions and documentation to reflect unlimited operations
- Add tests verifying 50 and 100+ operations work successfully
- Add example showing 26 operations in single request
The system already ensures complete transactional integrity regardless of
operation count. Bottleneck is workflow size, not operation count.
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- Add webhook path auto-generation for nodes missing path configuration
- Generates UUID for both 'path' parameter and 'webhookId' field
- Conditionally updates typeVersion to 2.1 only when < 2.1
- High confidence fix (95%) as UUID generation is deterministic
- Fix critical security and performance issues in NodeSimilarityService:
- Replace regex patterns with string-based matching to prevent ReDoS attacks
- Add cache invalidation with version tracking to prevent memory leaks
- Optimize Levenshtein distance algorithm from O(m*n) space to O(n)
- Add early termination for performance improvement
- Extract magic numbers into named constants
- Add comprehensive documentation for n8n_autofix_workflow tool
- Document all fix types including new webhook-missing-path
- Include examples, best practices, and warnings
- Integrate with MCP tool documentation system
- Create node-type-utils for centralized type normalization
- Eliminate code duplication across services
- Consistent handling of package prefixes
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- Changed misleading 'total' field to 'returned' to clarify it's the count in current page
- Added 'hasMore' boolean flag for clear pagination indication
- Added '_note' guidance when more data is available
- Applied same improvements to n8n_list_executions for consistency
Performance improvements:
- Tool now returns only minimal metadata instead of full workflow structure
- Reduced response size by ~95% (from thousands to ~10 tokens per workflow)
- Eliminated token limit errors when listing workflows with many nodes
- Updated descriptions and documentation to clarify minimal response
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- Reduced average description length from 250-450 to 93-129 chars
- Documentation tools now average 129 chars per description
- Management tools average just 93 chars per description
- Moved detailed documentation to tools_documentation() system
- Only 2 tools exceed 200 chars (necessarily verbose)
Also includes search_nodes improvements:
- Fixed primary node ranking (webhook, HTTP Request now appear first)
- Fixed FUZZY mode threshold for better typo tolerance
- Removed unnecessary searchInfo messages
- Fixed HTTP node type case sensitivity issue
This significantly improves AI agent performance by reducing context usage
while preserving all essential information.
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- Renamed files to remove unnecessary suffixes:
- tools-update.ts → tools.ts
- server-update.ts → server.ts
- http-server-fixed.ts → http-server.ts
- Created version utility to read from package.json as single source of truth
- Updated all imports across 21+ files
- Removed legacy files:
- src/http-server.ts (legacy HTTP server with known issues)
- src/utils/n8n-client.ts (unused legacy API client)
- Added n8n_diagnostic tool to help troubleshoot management tools visibility
- Added script to sync package.runtime.json version
- Fixed version mismatch issue (was hardcoded 2.4.1, now reads 2.7.0 from package.json)
This addresses GitHub issue #5 regarding version mismatch and provides better diagnostics for users.
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BREAKING CHANGES:
- Renamed n8n_update_workflow to n8n_update_full_workflow for clarity
NEW FEATURES:
- Added n8n_update_partial_workflow tool for diff-based workflow editing
- Implemented WorkflowDiffEngine with 13 operation types
- Added transactional updates with two-pass processing
- Maximum 5 operations per request for reliability
- Operations can be in any order - engine handles dependencies
- Added validateOnly mode for testing changes before applying
- 80-90% token savings by only sending changes
IMPROVEMENTS:
- Enhanced tool description with comprehensive parameter documentation
- Added clear examples for simple and complex use cases
- Improved error messages and validation
- Added extensive test coverage for all operations
DOCUMENTATION:
- Added workflow-diff-examples.md with usage patterns
- Added transactional-updates-example.md showing before/after
- Updated README.md with v2.7.0 features
- Updated CLAUDE.md with latest changes
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- NEW: n8n_validate_workflow tool to validate workflows from n8n instance by ID
- Fetches workflow via API and runs comprehensive validation
- Uses existing WorkflowValidator for consistency
- Supports all validation profiles and options
- Updated start_here tool with new workflow lifecycle info
- Updated README with new tool documentation
- Updated Claude Project Setup instructions
This completes the workflow lifecycle management:
discover → build → validate → deploy → execute → monitor
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