Lesson 6 of 6
Putting it together
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Five ideas, one tool. Before you go build something — can you pull the whole picture together?
What you've got
You've seen the shape of n8n: own it instead of renting, choose where it runs, wire a workflow of nodes, drop in an AI Agent that uses tools and memory, and point it at your own docs with RAG. That's the whole spine of an agent-first automation.
- —Own it: n8n is open-source and self-hostable, built agent-first.
- —Home: Cloud is zero-setup; self-host keeps your data with you.
- —Workflow: nodes wired on a canvas, started by a trigger.
- —AI Agent node: a goal plus tools and memory, deciding its own steps.
- —RAG: retrieve from your docs, answer grounded, cite the source.
You want a private assistant that answers staff questions from your internal handbook — and nothing leaves your servers. Which n8n pieces do you reach for?
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