Beginner’s Guide to AI Agents : Create using N8N

AI agents are magical tools for businesses and individuals, imagine you woke up in the morning and all your tasks are done automatically including sending emails, creating content for the day, booking meetings, booking calls, tickets, or any other important task without touching your device. This is exactly what an Ai agent does for us. Ai agents make your life very easy by handling basic to complex tasks and boost your productivity, saving your time. In this post I will share all about AI agents, what AI agents, how they help us. You will also find some useful resources and tutorials from various creators explaining how to create Ai agents.

What Are AI Agents?

AI agents are software programs that handle basic to complex tasks without any human involvement. Ai agents perform any task by analysing the query based on given data, and take decisions automatically, also it improves performance by self learning from the database. 

How are AI agents different from LLMs and Ai tools?

Ai agents do not need command to perform any task, it analyses provided data, understands tasks, takes self decisions and completes the task. Whereas LLMs like ChatGpt, Deepseek, GrokAi, Claude, Gemini react on given commands and prompts. These can not perform real world tasks like replying to emails, booking meetings and other tasks.

What Ai agents can do?

Ai agents can handle many tasks, some of them are

• Reply to emails
• Answer customer queries
• Schedule meetings/calls
• Recommend products
• Book flight, movie tickets
• Create content
• Automate social media posts
• Write articles

And many more. Ai agents can work 24/7 and follow instructions perfectly.

How do Ai agents work?

Ai agents follows simple workflow in three steps

1. Input- Ai agent receive information from the database
2. Process- start processing the task
3. Output- take action on given task

Example: You have an ecommerce store for electronic items, someone messages “Hey, do you have “X” product?”

Ai agent will automatically check details from the data you have feed for your products and reply with “yes or no” according to availability of product, and recommend other products similar to that  it also tracks users previous history, learn from it and recommend things based on the history

Types of Ai agents

There are different types of ai agents for various purposes

1. Simple Agents
2. Learning Agents
3. Task Automation Agents
4. Conversational Agents
5. Multi-Agent Systems

Best tool for creating Ai agents

N8N is an open source workflow automation tool, it is widely popular for creating workflow for ai agents and creating multi ai agent system for automating any task, it works for basic agents to complex agents. N8N offers 400+ integration for automated tasks, it doesn’t require high technical skills to create automation workflow, with N8N anyone with basic technical skills can build Ai agents.

Check out more details about N8N here

Resources

Here are a few best tutorials for creating Ai agents using N8N. You can check step by step tutorials for creating agents.

Ai system to create faceless videos from creating ideas, writing prompts, generating images, creating videos to publishing on social media and youtube. by- RoboNuggets

N8N tutorial for beginners by – Ai foundations

Conclusion

Ai agents are future, whether you are a business owner, content creator, freelancer or just managing personal tasks, Ai agents can be your personal assistant who work for 24/7 without getting tired, it handles all the tasks, and make your life easier.

Start small, try automating few tasks with free tools, and slowly experiment with more complex tasks. with right ai agent you can save money, time and grow your business seamlessly. Let us know if you have tried any automation for your business.

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