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wassupjay/n8n-free-templates

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TLDR

A collection of 200+ ready-made automation workflow files for n8n, import any file into your n8n instance to automate tasks across AI, DevOps, finance, and IoT without writing code.

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    What it does
      200 plus workflows
      Import and activate
      No code required
    Categories
      AI and LLMs
      DevOps automation
      Finance pipelines
      IoT triggers
    AI Integrations
      OpenAI GPT-4
      Anthropic Claude
      Pinecone vectors
      Hugging Face
    Setup
      Import JSON file
      Add credentials
      Click Activate
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Import a pre-built RAG workflow to let an AI model answer questions by searching your own documents stored in a vector database

USE CASE 2

Set up automated AI pipelines connecting OpenAI or Claude to other services without building the integration from scratch

USE CASE 3

Use DevOps or finance templates to automate repetitive monitoring or data-collection tasks

USE CASE 4

Connect IoT devices to downstream services using ready-made trigger-and-action workflow files

Tech stack

n8nJSON

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires a running n8n instance and API credentials for each third-party service a workflow connects to.

In plain English

n8n-free-templates is a collection of over 200 pre-built workflow files for n8n, an open-source automation tool that lets you connect apps and services together without writing code. Think of n8n workflows like IFTTT or Zapier recipes: a trigger happens, a series of steps runs, and something gets done automatically. This repository gives you ready-made workflows you can import directly into your own n8n instance. The workflows cover a wide range of categories including AI, DevOps, finance, and IoT (internet of things). Many of them are built around recent AI infrastructure: they connect to vector databases like Pinecone and Weaviate (which store text in a way that enables similarity search), use embedding services from OpenAI, Cohere, and Hugging Face (which convert text into numbers for that kind of search), and plug into large language model chat APIs including OpenAI GPT-4 and Anthropic Claude 3. Several workflows include a full RAG setup, which is a pattern where a language model answers questions by first looking up relevant documents from a database. To use any of the workflows, you clone the repository, open your n8n instance, go to Settings and choose Import Workflows, then select the JSON file you want. After importing, you open each step in the workflow, fill in your credentials for whatever service it uses, and click Activate. Each workflow file comes with its own documentation. The repository is community-oriented: the author notes that some templates are incomplete and invites contributors to finish them or add new ones. Language is listed as unknown because the files are JSON workflow definitions rather than code written in a programming language.

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Prompt 1
I want to set up a workflow where Claude answers questions about my company documents. Which templates in n8n-free-templates cover RAG with Anthropic Claude and a vector database, and how do I configure them?
Prompt 2
Walk me through importing a workflow JSON file from n8n-free-templates into my self-hosted n8n instance and filling in the credentials for each step
Prompt 3
Which templates in this collection connect to OpenAI embeddings and Pinecone for vector search? List them and explain what each one does
Prompt 4
I need to automate a finance data pipeline in n8n. Which templates in this repo cover finance use cases, and what services do they connect to?
Prompt 5
Show me how to adapt one of the AI chat templates in n8n-free-templates to use my own API key and a custom system prompt
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