n8n Labs, a new experimental team inside n8n, launched n8n Nod on November 10, 2026, a personal AI agent that runs on your computer. Released as a research preview, the app is independent from the n8n automation platform: it needs no n8n account and no cloud server to get started.
n8n Nod has its own computer — a sandbox running locally — and its own browser. That lets it finish jobs a chatbot would hand back as a to-do list: it works in the apps you connect, such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Slack, and on websites that have no official integration.
The examples n8n cites include cancelling a subscription and asking for the refund, watching a product price, finding a hotel and booking it once you approve, downloading invoices from supplier portals every month, and pulling numbers from a dashboard with no export option into a weekly report.
The agent also works ahead of you: it reads your connected apps and suggests jobs it could take over. You talk to it in one place, in the app or on Telegram and WhatsApp, while several jobs run in parallel in the background. Recurring jobs, such as a morning brief or a price check, can run on a schedule.
Memory is one of the highlights: Nod remembers months of conversation and scored 93.2% on LongMemEval, a public benchmark for long-term memory. According to numbers published by n8n, with the GPT-6.1 Sol model, the agent completed 98% of 678 runs of 226 simulated errands — tests run in simulated accounts and websites, not in real use.
Open source and under your control
n8n Nod is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the code is on GitHub. You choose the AI provider — with an API key or with your ChatGPT plan — or connect an open-source model running on your own computer. The app is available for Mac and Windows, and it can also run on your own server; a hosted version is on the company's roadmap.
Because the agent can send email and pay with your card, n8n designed Nod to be auditable: before it sends, pays, posts or deletes anything outside your request, a separate check confirms you asked for it. Credentials and cards stay encrypted on the machine, and the model never sees your passwords. Every task shows what it cost and ends with a receipt, and you can set a monthly spending limit.
Preview limitations
As a research preview, Nod still has limits: when it runs on a laptop, it stops when the machine sleeps — some testers keep it on an always-on Mac mini or on their own server. Each installation has a single owner, and the agent cannot make phone calls yet.
Image credit: press image from n8n, via the company's official blog.
Sources: n8n official blog — Meet Nod; official Nod page; GitHub repository; Nod documentation.
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