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Stacktree is an n8n node now.

n8n-nodes-stacktree is live in the community registry after passing n8n's security review. Any workflow gets a publish step: HTML in, a private unguessable link out, updated in place on the same URL for as long as the workflow keeps running.

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What shipped

Install n8n-nodes-stacktree (Settings, Community nodes, or search the nodes panel on n8n Cloud) and workflows gain a Stacktree node with two resources. Site covers publish from text or binary, update in place, get the raw HTML back, list, delete, and settings: password, email-domain gate, expiry, burn-after-read, and the on-page feedback toolbar. Feedback reads what viewers annotated on a published page and marks items resolved.

The node is also registered as a tool for n8n's AI Agent workflows, so an agent can publish what it just wrote and pass the link onward without a dedicated node wired in.

Why it exists

n8n workflows end with an artifact surprisingly often: a weekly report, a status dashboard, a generated one-pager for a client. The usual endings are a PDF attachment or a screenshot in Slack, both dead on arrival, or a public page somewhere it should not be. The missing step is a link that renders, stays private, and stays current. Publish once, and next week's run updates the same URL; the bookmark your team made keeps working, and the page it opens is always the latest run.

The loop matters more than the publish. Enable the feedback toolbar and viewers annotate the page in the browser with no account; the workflow reads those comments on its next run, regenerates, updates in place, and resolves them. A review cycle with no meetings in it.

The details that took the time

Passing n8n's review had one instructive wrinkle: their scanner lints the compiled output, not your source, so the usual escape hatches (inline lint suppressions) simply do not exist in what gets scanned. The node hand-builds its multipart uploads against the modern request helpers instead of the deprecated ones, ships no type-declaration files in the package, and publishes with npm provenance from CI. None of that is visible in the workflow editor, which is rather the point.

FAQ

Frequent questions

What is n8n-nodes-stacktree? +
A community node for n8n that gives workflows a publish step: HTML in, private unguessable stacktr.ee link out. Two resources (Site and Feedback), nine operations mirroring the Stacktree MCP server: publish, update in place, get, list, delete, settings (password, email gate, expiry, feedback toolbar), and reading or resolving viewer feedback.
Does it run on n8n Cloud? +
Yes. The node passed n8n's security review, which is the requirement for community nodes to be installable on n8n Cloud. Self-hosted installs work from Settings, Community nodes, with the package name.
Can an n8n AI Agent use it as a tool? +
Yes, it is registered as usable-as-tool. An AI Agent node can decide to publish the HTML it just produced, get the private link back, and hand it to the next step without a hard-wired node in between.
Why not just use the HTTP Request node? +
You can; the API is open. The node handles multipart uploads from text or binary data, ships a credential test, applies sensible defaults for expiry and the PII pre-flight scan, and exposes typed operations that agents and teammates can read at a glance.
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