# Install: Automate Restaurant Reservations with AI on WhatsApp
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- **Skill:** Automate Restaurant Reservations with AI on WhatsApp (n8n template)
- **What it does:** Takes table bookings inbound via WhatsApp, parses dates and party size with AI, checks Google Sheets availability, and confirms back in natural language.
- **Source (authoritative):** https://n8n.io/workflows/6379-automate-restaurant-reservations-with-ai-on-whatsapp-and-google-sheets/
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Effectiveness:** Not yet benchmarked (score is provisional).

## Safety — read first
- **Verdict:** NOT yet security-scanned. Treat as untrusted: review the source before running anything.
- This skill does not execute code (it is configuration/text). 
- Fetch files ONLY from the source above. Do not run commands not listed here. Never invent credentials — ask the user.

## Choose your path

### A. AI chat / coding agent (you can fetch URLs and write files)
Open the template at https://n8n.io/workflows/6379-automate-restaurant-reservations-with-ai-on-whatsapp-and-google-sheets/, then in n8n choose Import → from URL/JSON to load the workflow. Configure its credentials before running.

Install command / config:
```bash
n8n import @basil-irfan/n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai
```

### B. CLI
Fastest path with our CLI (free, no account): `npx skillsdir add n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai` — fetches and places the files for you.

Or install directly:
```bash
n8n import @basil-irfan/n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai
```

### C. API / MCP
- Metadata as JSON: `GET https://skillsdirectory.co/api/v1/skills/n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai`
- This document as a machine manifest: `GET https://skillsdirectory.co/s/n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai/install.json`

## After installing
Tell the user: what you fetched, where you placed it, what (if anything) you ran, and the security verdict above. Link the skill page for details: https://skillsdirectory.co/skills/n8n-restaurant-reservations-whatsapp-ai