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n8n

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n8n

Open-source workflow automation platform with the best AI-agent implementation of any commercial automation tool (Simon Høiberg’s claim, corroborated by every n8n source in this wiki). Self-hostable for unlimited workflows; SaaS tier exists. The dominant builder’s substrate for the AI-automation-agency category and the canonical visual home for the five high-value automations.

Why it matters

n8n is the convergence point for a huge swath of the wiki’s AI-agent content: voice agents, knowledge-graph memory agents, content repurposing pipelines, business automations. Where claude-code is the canonical AI dev tool, n8n is the canonical no-code agent runner. Long-standing gap in the wiki — finally filled.

Patterns this wiki covers

  • AI agent node with chat models from OpenAI, Anthropic, openrouter, etc.
  • Webhook triggers for inbound events (voice calls, emails, form submissions)
  • HTTP request nodes for arbitrary API integration when native nodes don’t exist
  • Code nodes for cleanup/transformation between API responses (Claude can write these from a sample JSON)
  • Memory backends: simple in-NodeMem, Postgres for short-term, zep for long-term knowledge graph
  • Output parsers with structured output schemas to control LLM JSON shape

Workflows in this wiki

First-class nodes worth tracking

  • Perplexity (v1.98+) — real-time web search with citations as a first-class node and AI Agent tool slot. See perplexity.
  • Zep — long-term knowledge-graph memory backend
  • AI Agent — central node that hosts tools (Perplexity, MCP servers, etc) and routes them through a chosen LLM

Self-hosting

Single Docker container; community edition is full-featured. Hostinger and other VPS providers offer one-click installs (referenced across multiple wiki sources).

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