n8n Just Leveled Up AI Agents (Anthropic's Think Method)

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In this video, I break down n8n’s powerful new Think tool for AI agents—based on Anthropic’s approach to structured thinking. I’ll walk you through a few demos to show how this tool helps agents tackle complex tasks more effectively. Plus, we’ll explore how different models behave when using Think—and why this could completely change the way we design and build AI agents.

If you're building with n8n or experimenting with autonomous agents, this is one tool you’ll want to understand.

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00:00 Demo #1
02:45 Demo #2
04:43 The Breakdown
05:37 Anthropic “Think” Tool Article
08:10 Example 1) Riddles
12:02 Example 2) Tool Calling
16:39 Example 3) Subworkflows

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Camera: Razer Kiyo Pro
Microphone: Blue Yeti USB

[MarwanKingAIDev]

Just wanted to say thank you for all the valuable videos and for setting the pace in AI culture. You're on your way to becoming a legend; you're truly appreciated and deeply respected out here. Happy Easter Sunday, Nate!

[eiermann]

oh boy, so well explained. i just switched from make to n8n. so much more intuitive. it took me a full week though to figure out that self hosting locally was not working for me for unknown reasons. hostinger was super easy to set up. let me join the class...

[Larimuss]

Keep posting bro! Love it. Nice update. They kinda needed to with all the auto app builders growing. I’d love a video on how to deploy n8n apps though and if it’s even viable in the real world.

[simeonvkm]

Hi Nate, great materials dude, appreciate it! For other LLMs aside of claude's models to be able to use Claude's think tool, you need to have a MCP in between the AI agent and the AI model, since the think tool communicates on Claude's way and chatGPT etc use their own way of communication

[lukeyoung]

This also seems like it could be useful for observability. Logging the “think” sections through difficult tasks could uncover procedural errors that may help with refinement.

[berserkmodmatrix]

Hey Nate, I think you make a good philosophy out of the AI Systems, u really love what u are doing! Very inspiring!

[themorethemerrier]

I built an n8n think tool with an empty subflow weeks ago. Claude seems to like it the most. The other models still rarely use it. I have to work on my think tool description

[tonyli]

Thanks for the sharing, Nate. While testing on my own, I noticed that using the think tool with a chat model and memory will trigger two calls

[ainalucienrazafindraibe]

Top notch quality as usual Nate! Appreciate!

[peoplelikegames]

Sharing love for the algorithm! Love the content thank you for the helpful work!

[josedias]

Grato, por colocar Dublado! You are the best!

[GaryCTate-AI]

As always, fast and informative.

Quick question, Is there any reason why you use Telegram as your voice integration?

[fahedriachi]

Awesome content as usual Nate, thank you! Qq: when you switched model, the answer came back quicker indeed, but i suspect this is because you didnt reset the chat to have new session id, thus the new model might have simply read the answer from history, no? Wdyt?

[AutomatorAcademy]

I can't seem to find the 'THINK' node in n8n. Running 1.86.1 self-hosted. OH WAIT. I just updated to 1.88.0 and I see it now!

[AgenticPersonnel]

This just leaves one question where is Michael Scott going to get dinner?😂
Great job Nate fantastic delivery as usual!
❤

[JohnBaldwin]

Tell me more about the Quote tool, please

[HunterVaughn-kp]

Nate, do you pay for cloud or self host? If host, what do you use?

[Txowy]

Great update Nate! Thanks for sharing! 😊 The think method looks good but definitely not a total game changer! 😅 Please keep sharing with us what you build on N8N is actually amazing and inspiring 🙏🏿😃

[davidddo]

well this doesn't replace reasoning, it's just a structured validation step that happens at the end

[tytanyo]

Hey, nice video man! The 4.1 mini model is best with thinking node or o4 mini is best? Cost effetive in this case. Thanks :)