n8n Agents: goal-driven agents living next to your workflows
Describe what an agent should do, pick a model and the tools/workflows it can use - then talk to it in Slack, run it on a schedule, or call it from any workflow. Same agent everywhere.
Why it matters
Agents and workflows are peers, not rivals: agents call your workflows as tools (so you scope exactly what they may touch), and a new 'Message an Agent' node lets workflows call agents as a step. Existing AI Agent node setups keep working.
What you could build with it
An operations team already on n8n can turn its existing workflows into tools for one agent that staff talk to in Slack or that runs on a schedule.
First spotted on engineering blog: source.
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