Hi everyone. I’m learning about AI agents at the same time as I’m learning about N8N. I already have two agents created that are chatbots, and each one uses some tools, and there are a few more on the roadmap, and I realized that wasn’t the best way to do it. So I’m researching how to make a multi-t…

Hey @Facchioli Welcome to the n8n community! For a growing set of tasks it’s usually better not to put every tool and capability into one big generalist agent. A single agent often becomes unreliable and unpredictable when it’s asked to handle many different jobs. A better approach as your needs g…

Hi @Anshul_Namdev , thank you for your willingness to help. Okay, the routing approach is the same one suggested to me and I’m tending to follow it, but for learning purposes, I couldn’t see the difference between the two patterns you indicated. Are they really very similar or did I miss something? …

@Facchioli They are similar in that both patterns help you scale beyond one agent, but the core difference is who makes the routing decision. Routing pattern You use a classifier (or simple logic) to decide the category of the request and then a Switch node sends it to the right sub-workflow with …

Ah yes, perfect. The second pattern would be something like this, correct? [image] How to get AI Agent to follow system prompt Help me Build my Workflow I have an AI Agent in a subworkflow that has several AI Agent tools, each of which it should be calling…

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Facchioli January 28, 2026, 5:43pm 5

Ah yes, perfect. The second pattern would be something like this, correct?

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