n8n Error Handler Route from Workflow Failure Notes (No Invented Run Counts)

Prompt

Act as an n8n workflow reliability engineer who only uses pasted workflow failure notes. You compile an error-handler route the notes already support. You do not invent run counts, success rates, latency percentiles, or uptime ranks. This is not a live n8n execution pull and not an SLA monitoring service.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Workflow failure notes I lock (node names, error phrases, retry cues): [FailureNotes]
- n8n version or hosting notes I lock: [Version]
- Workflow label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [WorkflowLabel]
- Node names already present (or UNKNOWN): [NodeNames]
- Error phrases already present (or UNKNOWN): [ErrorPhrases]
- Retry cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [RetryCues]
- Notify cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [NotifyCues]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (run counts, success rates, latency percentiles, uptime ranks): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: FailureNotes nouns, Version, WorkflowLabel, NodeNames, ErrorPhrases, RetryCues, NotifyCues, Lang. Forbidden: invented run counts, success rates, latency percentiles, uptime ranks.
2. Error-handler route table: one row per NodeNames entry. Attach only ErrorPhrases and RetryCues named beside that node in FailureNotes. Missing retry write NOT IN INPUTS.
3. Notify sketch: for each NotifyCues entry, list nodes that name it. Do not invent a 1,240 run count if absent.
4. Hosting caution block: quote Version only. Queue-mode packs not in FailureNotes stay NOT IN INPUTS.
5. Refuse list: inventing 1,240 run counts, inventing 99.2% success rates, inventing p95 180ms latency, inventing uptime rank #1.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Print node and error-phrase counts from FailureNotes only. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Error handler route from FailureNotes only. No invented run counts.
- Honor Version. No emojis. Not a live n8n executions dashboard.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Generated Output

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n8n Error Handler Route from Workflow Failure Notes (No Invented Run Counts) - Result

Examples

Example Input

FailureNotes: node HTTP Request Harbor CRM as pasted error phrase 429 Too Many Requests as pasted retry cue wait 60s then once as pasted; node Slack Notify Quay as pasted error phrase webhook timeout as pasted. Run count invent NONE. Latency invent NONE.
Version: n8n self-hosted 1.54 as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI error coach)
WorkflowLabel: Harbor Quay lead sync as pasted
NodeNames: HTTP Request Harbor CRM as pasted; Slack Notify Quay as pasted. Cedar Postgres UNKNOWN.
ErrorPhrases: 429 Too Many Requests as pasted; webhook timeout as pasted. Midpoint 5xx UNKNOWN.
RetryCues: retry cue wait 60s then once as pasted for HTTP Request Harbor CRM; Slack Notify Quay retry NOT IN INPUTS.
NotifyCues: notify cue on-call Slack channel as pasted for Slack Notify Quay. Queue-mode pack UNKNOWN.
Banned: 1,240 runs, 99.2% success, guaranteed p95 180ms
Never: invent run counts, invent success rates, invent latency percentiles, invent uptime ranks
Format: ledger + error-handler route + notify sketch + hosting caution + refuse + compliance
Lang: English

Example Output

1. Ledger. FailureNotes: node HTTP Request Harbor CRM + error 429 Too Many Requests + retry wait 60s then once; node Slack Notify Quay + error webhook timeout. Run count invent NONE. Latency invent NONE. Version n8n self-hosted 1.54. WorkflowLabel Harbor Quay lead sync. NodeNames HTTP Request Harbor CRM; Slack Notify Quay. ErrorPhrases 429 Too Many Requests; webhook timeout. RetryCues wait 60s then once for HTTP Request Harbor CRM; Slack Notify Quay retry NOT IN INPUTS. NotifyCues on-call Slack channel for Slack Notify Quay. Queue-mode pack UNKNOWN. Lang English. Forbidden: invented run counts, success rates, latency percentiles, uptime ranks, 1,240 runs, 99.2% success, guaranteed p95 180ms.

2. Error-handler route table.
HTTP Request Harbor CRM | error 429 Too Many Requests as pasted | retry wait 60s then once as pasted.
Slack Notify Quay | error webhook timeout as pasted | retry NOT IN INPUTS.
Midpoint 5xx not attached. Cedar Postgres not added.

3. Notify sketch.
notify cue on-call Slack channel | node Slack Notify Quay as pasted.
HTTP Request Harbor CRM notify | NOT IN INPUTS.
Run count NOT IN INPUTS so do not invent 1,240. Second on-call Slack channel cue not invented.

4. Hosting caution. n8n self-hosted 1.54 as pasted. Queue-mode pack UNKNOWN. Uptime rank pack NOT IN INPUTS. Do not invent latency-percentile packs.

5. Refuse. 1,240 run counts: refused. 99.2% success rates: refused. p95 180ms latency: refused. uptime rank #1: refused. Unreleased AI error coach: refused.

6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Nodes 2. Error phrases 2. Format ledger+error-handler route+notify sketch+hosting caution+refuse+compliance. Gaps: Slack Notify Quay retry, Cedar Postgres, Midpoint 5xx, queue-mode pack, run count.

Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.