Autonomous AI Research Agent

Unlock Automated Deep Research with this AI Agent

This workflow transforms your n8n instance into an autonomous research assistant. Give it a query, and it springs into action, executing a complete research cycle. It's an AI Agent with the core ability of Deep Research. First, it uses an LLM to intelligently break down your topic into multiple, precise search queries. Then, it scours the web using SerpAPI, scrapes the content from top results with Jina AI, and uses another LLM call to extract only the most relevant information. Finally, it synthesizes all the findings into a polished, well-structured report in Markdown format, ready for you to use.

Key Features & Benefits

• AI-Driven Query Generation: Moves beyond a single search term by creating multiple, nuanced queries to ensure comprehensive topic coverage.
• Autonomous Web Search & Scraping: Automatically uses SerpAPI and Jina AI to find and read relevant online sources, saving you hours of manual work.
• Intelligent Context Extraction: Leverages an LLM to read through web pages and pull out only the information that directly answers your query.
• Comprehensive Report Synthesis: Generates a clean, easy-to-read Markdown report from the gathered data, complete with sources and key findings.
• Built for Speed: Utilizes parallel processing to run multiple search and scrape operations simultaneously, delivering results faster.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• API Key for an LLM provider via OpenRouter (e.g., Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Claude).
• SerpAPI API Key for web search results.
• Jina AI API Key for scraping web page content.

1. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
2. Configure the 'LLM Response Provider (OpenRouter)' node by creating and adding your OpenRouter API credential.
3. In the 'Perform SerpAPI Search Request' node, create and add your SerpAPI credential.
4. In the 'Perform Jina AI Analysis Request' node, create and add your Jina AI credential (as an HTTP Header Auth credential).
5. Connect the 'Chat Message Trigger' to a chat application or use the n8n Chat interface to interact with the agent.
6. Activate the workflow and provide a research query to start.