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

The command dispatch takes two required arguments:
requestType – one of state, action, or historical.
text – the raw user prompt.
The skill builds a JSON payload containing those two values and calls the MCP service n8n_dispatch.
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.