🤖 Build an interactive AI agent with chat interface and multiple tools

How it works

This template is a complete, hands-on tutorial that lets you build and interact with your very first AI Agent.

Think of an AI Agent as a standard AI chatbot with superpowers. The agent doesn't just talk; it can use tools to perform actions and find information in real-time. This workflow is designed to show you exactly how that works.

1. The Chat Interface (Chat Trigger): This is your window to the agent. It's a fully styled, public-facing chat window where you can have a conversation. 2. The Brain (AI Agent Node): This is the core of the operation. It takes your message, understands your intent, and intelligently decides which "superpower" (or tool) it needs to use to answer your request. The agent's personality and instructions are defined in its extensive system prompt. 3. The Tools (Tool Nodes): These are the agent's superpowers. We've included a variety of useful and fun tools to showcase its capabilities: Get a random joke. Search Wikipedia for a summary of any topic. Calculate a future date. Generate a secure password. Calculate a monthly loan payment. Fetch the latest articles from the n8n blog. 4. The Memory (Memory Node): This gives the agent a short-term memory, allowing it to remember the last few messages in your conversation for better context.

When you send a message, the agent's brain analyzes it, picks the right tool for the job, executes it, and then formulates a helpful response based on the tool's output.

Set up steps

Setup time: ~3 minutes

This template is nearly ready to go out of the box. You just need to provide the AI's "brain."