Ideas on how to pin a tool output

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Describe the problem/error/question

Currently seems that there’s no way to pin the output of an AI Agent tool. I found this feature request but it seems forgotten.

From my point of view it seems a very straightforward feature and actually counter-intuitive that it’s not available even for the “Call n8n workflow tool”. I mean, we can pin data by calling this same workflow with the “Execute a sub-workflow” node, but we cannot pin when using the same workflow as a tool.

Sometimes a tool processing takes a lot of time and might consume a lot of resources, so I’m wondering if someone has an idea on how to tests this tools? Do you create a “mock” tool or something like that? Any other suggestion?

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Workaround for testing and development is to use data mocking or manual pinning in other nodes, but not directly on the tool output itself…

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@Parintele_Damaskin Thanks for answering! I tried that during this last weeks and that’s certainly very cumbersome. I think my only option here is to wait for the feature

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