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.

Skills covered

n8nAI Productivity ToolsGenerative AIArtificial Intelligence for BusinessArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Software and ToolsOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Making AI agents work for you

1. Building AI Agents with n8n

02 - Introducing n8n
03 - The Plan - An AI-powered Slackbot managing a Google Sheet
04 - Creating a new n8n workflow with a trigger
05 - Adding an AI agent and a chat model
06 - Adding a tool to the AI agent
07 - Using a sub-workflow as a tool
08 - Using the filter node to modify data
09 - Creating an MCP server in n8n
10 - Adding tools to the MCP server
11 - Creating a Slackbot
12 - Authenticating Slack
13 - Adding a Slack trigger
14 - Sending messages to Slack

Conclusion

15 - Next steps