Real example · Automation & AI agents
Built a personal AI agent in n8n
What they did
Debbie O'Brien built a chat agent in n8n, with Gemini as the model, that checks the weather, her YouTube stats, her Strava activity and GitHub issues, and emails her a summary through Gmail.
How it went
The agent worked, with conversation memory and several connected tools, built 'without needing to write much code'; she says 'the hardest part is usually obtaining and configuring API credentials.'
Worth knowing
Personal blog post from late 2024 about a project she built to explore what is possible, not a business result; she notes the chat link is public to anyone who has the URL.
Try it yourself with n8n
Replace anything in [brackets] with your details.
Build me an n8n workflow with a chat trigger and an AI agent node using [model, e.g. Gemini].
Give the agent these tools: [weather for my city], [stats from my YouTube channel], [my recent activity in a fitness app], [open issues in my GitHub repository].
When I send the message "daily summary", the agent should call each tool, write a short friendly summary, and email it to [my email address].
List the credentials I need to create and the order to connect the nodes.Read the original
I Built My Own AI Agent using n8n — And You Can Too ↗
debbie.codes · · Personal post
Attributed to the source linked below; not our own test.
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