Suppose (C,E,s) is an n-exangulated category. We show that the idempotent completion and the weak idempotent completion of C are again n-exangulated categories. Furthermore, we also show that the canonical inclusion functor of C
Nearby in the stack
into its (resp. weak) idempotent completion is
n
-exangulated and
2
-universal among
n
-exangulated functors from
(C,E,s)
to (resp. weakly) idempotent complete
n
-exangulated categories. Furthermore, we prove that if
(C,E,s)
is
n
-exact, then so too is its (resp. weak) idempotent completion. We note that our methods of proof differ substantially from the extriangulated and
(n+2)
-angulated cases. However, our constructions recover the known structures in the established cases up to