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Leon van Zyl is a full-stack AI engineer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He runs a YouTube channel covering AI agents and automation across both no-code (n8n, Flowise) and code-first tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor). Audience bridges the no-code to code transition.
Van Zyl runs an Anthropic hackathon-winning Claude Code configuration collection on GitHub featuring agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules and MCP servers. He published an X thread and video showing how to use Claude Code AS an MCP server inside Flowise and n8n, an unusual inversion of the typical Claude-Code-as-IDE pattern. He frames Claude Code as the most flexible primitive in the agent stack.
Van Zyl ships an 'n8n-ai-agents-masterclass-2025' GitHub repository alongside an n8n-workflows collection, both treated as production references for builders. He pairs n8n with Claude Code as the runtime for agentic workflows the developer authored once and wants to deploy reliably. His Udemy MCP course explicitly teaches connecting agents through n8n.
Van Zyl teaches Cursor in his Udemy MCP course as one of the four code-first agent surfaces alongside Claude, Flowise and Python clients. He frames Cursor as the inline editor option in a multi-tool agent stack, paired with Claude Code rather than competing with it.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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