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Creating an MCP server in n8n

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- [Instructor] AI agents can use multiple different tools at the same time. It's not immediately obvious the way things are laid out right now, but if I move this tool to the side, you can see here I can click on plus and add additional tools. Now, if you remember back to the beginning, I said this agent will do two different things. It'll retrieve information. That's what we already have, and it'll also update information. So that means we need to add an update tool to the agent. I could do that right here. Click plus, go search for Google Sheets update, and just add the tool in. But there's a good chance, later on, I'll want to build another workflow that is also integrating with Google Sheets, and I want to use the same setup again. It would make more sense to create a package that has all the available Google Sheets tools I normally use, and then just call that package and have the agent pick the tools at once. and I can, thanks to the Model Context Protocol, also known as MCP…

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