Chat assistant workflow

★ 6.1 · n8n · simple · 5 nodes

Chat assistant workflow is an n8n automation template that triggers on a chat message and connects to OpenRouter to power a conversational AI assistant inside your n8n pipelines. Reach for it when you want to add a chatbot to your workflow without building the integration from scratch, when you need to switch between multiple LLMs through a single API key, or when you want AI-generated replies to plug directly into a larger n8n automation. The template uses n8n's built-in chat trigger and the OpenRouter integration, which acts as a unified gateway to a wide range of language models; it deploys by importing the JSON workflow into any existing n8n instance, whether self-hosted or cloud. Trigger: Chat. Integrations: OpenRouter. The direction is response generation in a dialogue, not email parsing or task routing — separate catalog templates cover those cases. This is an automation tool; how AI responses are used in your workflows is entirely the user's decision. Works with any n8n setup that has outbound API access and a valid OpenRouter account; not suitable for air-gapped environments.