n8n-restart

name	n8n-restart
description	Restart the local n8n automation stack, preserving whatever profile (plain or mcp) is currently running. Use when the user asks to restart, reload, or reboot n8n.

n8n-restart

Restarts the running services in place. This is faster than down/up because volumes stay mounted. It also preserves the currently active compose profile — if n8n-mcp was up, it stays up.

Steps

1. Detect whether the mcp profile is active:

   cd apps/automation
   if ./scripts/compose.sh ps --services --status running | grep -q '^n8n-mcp$'; then
     MCP_RUNNING=1
   else
     MCP_RUNNING=0
   fi
   

2. Restart the appropriate set of services:

   if [ "$MCP_RUNNING" = "1" ]; then
     pnpm --filter automation n8n:restart:mcp
   else
     pnpm --filter automation n8n:restart
   fi
   

3. Verify:

   pnpm --filter automation n8n:ps
   

Notes

• If nothing is currently running, n8n-restart will do nothing useful. Use n8n-start to bring the stack up instead.