I Turned an Entire n8n Workflow Into Claude Plugin Skills — No Code, Just Instructions (ALGA EP03)

Описание: I had an n8n workflow scraping LinkedIn posts every morning using Apify. It workeduntil it broke. And when it broke for a client, I had to go back into n8n, find the node, fix it, and hope nothing else fell apart.
So I replaced it. Completely.
In this episode I turn that entire workflow into a Claude Cowork Plugin Skill, a plain markdown file that Claude reads and executes step by step. No code. No n8n. No Apify. Just instructions, connected to Airtable and Unipile via MCP.
I also show you how I build ALGA skills without writing a single line of code myself. I use the ALGA Build project inside Claude.ai, a project with a custom system prompt that makes Claude my co-engineer. I describe what I want. Claude writes the files, checks my Airtable schema, and iterates with me.
What this episode covers:
→ What Claude Cowork plugins are (skills, connectors, commands, agents — with a live illustration)
→ Why I switched from Apify (HTML scraping) to Unipile (API-based fetching)
→ How I instruct Claude to build skills — I'm the product designer, Claude is the engineer
→ Adding Unipile credentials to the plugin config.json
→ Live test: running /todayPost and watching posts land in Airtable
→ The diagnostic report habit — the pattern that makes iterating with AI actually work
ALGA is an AI LinkedIn Growth Assistant I'm building as a Claude Cowork Plugin. Every episode is a real build, on screen. No fake demos.
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▶️ EP01 — Plugin reveal + strategy skill →
▶️ EP02 — Replacing comment drafting with a scheduled task →
📖 Claude Cowork Blog → claude.ai/articles
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What we're replacing and why — the n8n catch nobody talks about
1:04 What ALGA is — LinkedIn with a human in the loop
2:04 Airtable as the front end — strategy, voice, goals, pictures
3:47 What is Claude Cowork — where it runs, why you can trust it
5:22 Plugins explained — skills, connectors, commands, agents
6:57 ALGA commands shown live — /enrich and /strategy
8:07 Scheduled tasks mentioned — see EP02 for the full breakdown
8:40 n8n workflow walk — what each node does, step by step
9:35 The skill file shown alongside the workflow — same logic, no nodes
10:17 Why I switched from Apify to Unipile — Unipile dashboard shown
11:28 Unipile credentials — account ID, DSN, access token
12:27 The enrich skill — analyzing posts after scraping
13:26 Airtable Scraped Posts table — hook type, structure, CTA, rewrite suggestion
14:00 The ALGA Build project — system prompt shown on screen
14:56 How I give the instruction to Claude — typing it live
16:21 Swapping Apify for Unipile inside the instruction
17:28 Running a live test directly in Claude Chat with connectors active
18:19 Filling config.json with real credentials (I had to revoke these after)
19:27 New plugin structure — scrape, enrich, fetch-profile commands added
20:07 Running /todayPost in Claude Cowork — live
20:57 Test passes — post found, analyzed, stored in Airtable
21:30 The diagnostic report — ask Claude to write it, feed it back into your build project
21:50 Plugin is v1.3.4 — waitlist + what's coming in EP04
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