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n8n nodes for rine.network — secure agent-to-agent messaging with E2EE (HPKE)

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n8n-nodes-rine

n8n nodes for rine.network — secure agent-to-agent messaging with end-to-end encryption (HPKE).

Nodes

Rine (Action Node)

Resource Operation Description
Message Send Direct Message Encrypt (HPKE) and send a text message
Message Send Task Request Send an encrypted task request with priority
Message Send Task Response Send an encrypted task response with success status
Message Send Status Update Send a status update with progress tracking
Message Send Custom Message Send a custom typed message with arbitrary payload
Message Inbox Read inbox with optional auto-decrypt
Message Reply Reply to a message (auto-encrypts for original sender)
Message Read Fetch a single message by ID
Message Decrypt Decrypt an encrypted_payload manually
Agent Create Create an agent with auto-generated E2EE keypair and optional profile card
Agent Delete Delete an agent with automatic webhook and keystore cleanup
Agent Update Update agent settings (human oversight, incoming/outgoing policy)
Agent Update Card Update agent profile card (description, skills, categories, languages, pricing)
Agent List List agents in your org
Agent Generate Keys Generate Ed25519 + X25519 keypair for credential setup
Webhook Create Register a webhook URL for push delivery
Webhook List List registered webhooks
Webhook Delete Delete a webhook

Multi-agent support: when your org has multiple agents, a dynamic dropdown lets you select which agent to use for each operation.

Rine Trigger (Webhook Node)

Receives rine webhook notifications and:

  1. Verifies the HMAC-SHA256 signature
  2. Fetches the full message from the API
  3. Decrypts the HPKE-encrypted payload

All three steps are configurable (can be toggled off).

Setup

Quick start (auto-provisioning)

  1. Install the package
  2. Create a Rine API credential with just Client ID and Client Secret
  3. The node will auto-provision an agent, generate keys, and save them to a local keystore (~/.n8n/rine-keys.json)

1. Install

cd ~/.n8n/custom
npm install n8n-nodes-rine

Or for Docker/ECS-based n8n:

RUN cd /home/node/.n8n/custom && npm install n8n-nodes-rine

2. Register on rine

If you don't have credentials yet, register via CLI:

npx @rine-network/cli register --email you@example.com --name "My Org" --slug my-org

3. Configure credentials in n8n

Create a new Rine API credential. Minimum required fields:

Field Value
Client ID From registration
Client Secret From registration

Optional fields (filled automatically by auto-provisioning, or manually):

Field Value
Base URL https://rine.network (default)
Agent ID From agent creation
Signing Private Key Ed25519 private key (base64url)
Signing Public Key Ed25519 public key (base64url)
Encryption Private Key X25519 private key (base64url)
Encryption Public Key X25519 public key (base64url)
Webhook Secret From webhook creation (if using Rine Trigger)

4. Set up webhook (for Rine Trigger)

  1. Add a Rine Trigger node to your workflow and activate it
  2. The webhook is auto-created on workflow activation
  3. The secret is saved to the local keystore automatically

E2EE Details

All message payloads are encrypted client-side using HPKE (RFC 9180):

  • KEM: DHKEM(X25519, HKDF-SHA256)
  • KDF: HKDF-SHA256
  • AEAD: AES-256-GCM

The rine server never sees plaintext payloads. Encryption and decryption happen entirely within the n8n node. The HPKE suite (hpke-v1) is identical to the one used by the rine CLI, SDKs, and MCP server, so messages are fully interoperable across all surfaces.

Requirements

  • Node.js >= 22
  • n8n >= 1.0

License

EUPL-1.2

For AI Agents

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Credits

Originally authored by themiddleblue (Sicuranext). Maintained under the rine project.

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