Build AI Agents and Automate Workflows with n8n
50mGeneral2025-06-18
Authors
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Senior Staff Instructor, Speaker, Web Designer, and Software Developer
Course details
Use n8n - the open source workflow automation tool - to build advanced custom AI-powered business-process automations connecting your existing tools together to create AI agents that simplify your work. Choose n8n as a cloud app, mount it on prem, or run it locally on your computer for full control. Learn how to build an advanced AI agent that connects with external sources like Google Sheets and Slack to perform data processing and management based on natural language inputs. Create, share, and test out automation flows with your team and the n8n community.
Learning objectives
Understand what n8n is and how it can be used.
Practice creating workflows using standard integrations in the low-code designer.
Build advanced AI-powered agents with models from major AI vendors.
Build custom MCP servers for multi-agent tool use.
Learning objectives
Understand what n8n is and how it can be used.
Practice creating workflows using standard integrations in the low-code designer.
Build advanced AI-powered agents with models from major AI vendors.
Build custom MCP servers for multi-agent tool use.
Skills covered
n8nAI Builders and Low/No-Code ToolsAI for Personal ProductivityAI Agents and Agentic SystemsAI Productivity and Everyday UseBuilding with AIBusiness Software and ToolsOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Making AI agents work for you
Building AI Agents with n8n
- Introducing n8n
- The Plan - An AI-powered Slackbot managing a Google Sheet
- Creating a new n8n workflow with a trigger
- Adding an AI agent and a chat model
- Adding a tool to the AI agent
- Using a sub-workflow as a tool
- Using the filter node to modify data
- Creating an MCP server in n8n
- Adding tools to the MCP server
- Creating a Slackbot
- Authenticating Slack
- Adding a Slack trigger
- Sending messages to Slack
Conclusion
- Next steps