Farouk - Hello everyone,I’m currently explori...
Hello everyone,
I’m currently exploring different ways of integrating AI into my workflows, and I noticed something interesting.
On one side, Buildship has the LLM Assistant node.
On the other side, n8n has its AI Agent nodes.
I’ve attached screenshots of both (Buildship’s LLM Assistant vs n8n’s AI Agent).
👉 My question is: are these two concepts equivalent, or do they work in fundamentally different ways?
In other words, should I think of Buildship’s LLM Assistant node as being similar to n8n’s AI Agents, or do they have different scopes and purposes?
Thanks in advance for clarifying!
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@Farouk both are different Agents and assistant to use and built tools for agents on BuildShip you'll need to add tools trigger, refer to this to know more about building tools for agents with BuildShip https://buildship.com/blog/mcp-tools-for-ai-agents
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Thanks Gaurav for clarifying the difference between the Assistant node and the Agent in Buildship 🙏
Just to confirm my understanding:
In n8n, an AI Agent can already reason and use a set of tools that I configure directly inside the platform.
In Buildship, it looks like I first need to build the tools with Buildship Tools (MCP-ready), and then connect them to the Agent so that it can actually perform actions.
So my question is: in practice, does a Buildship Agent with Tools provide the same level of autonomy and tool-usage capabilities as an AI Agent in n8n, or are there still some differences in how they behave?
The autonomy is similar with an in general tools usage on all platforms, in BuildShip the key is you can turn any flow/api to a Tool which provides you with an option to select your agent builder.
I recommend trying both BuildShip and n8n, then sharing your feedback with us.
