On November 10, 2026, n8n Labs, a new team inside n8n, released the personal agent Nod as a research preview: a standalone app that runs on your own computer, works inside the apps you connect and on websites with no integration at all, and finishes jobs for you — open source and free. n8n has always helped teams automate repetitive processes; Nod applies the same idea to one person.
What can it actually do for you?
Nod has its own computer in a local sandbox, plus its own browser, so it can finish jobs a chat assistant could only turn into a to-do list: cancel a subscription and turn down the retention offers, watch a price and tell you when it drops, find a hotel you like and book it once you say go, sign in to your supplier portals each month to download invoices and file them, and pull last week's numbers from a dashboard with no export function into your weekly report. You talk to it in the app, or on Telegram or WhatsApp, while it runs several jobs in parallel; jobs that repeat can run on a schedule.
It remembers you — and still has to clear things with you
Nod remembers months of conversation, so you don't have to keep restating your preferences, and it scored 93.2% on LongMemEval, a public benchmark for long-term memory. Once you connect Gmail, it learns how you write so its drafts sound like you, writes down how it got a task done to reuse the approach next time, and lets you see, edit or delete anything it keeps. Trust is the other half of this launch: the code is open source under Apache 2.0, and your data, memory and saved logins stay on your machine. Before it sends, pays, posts or deletes anything, a separate check confirms you asked for it, and a web page or an email can't give it orders. Saved passwords and cards are encrypted and entered through private forms the model can't read, and every sign-in, card use and action is logged.
Nod itself is free; you pay your model provider, or you can connect an open-source model running on your own computer. Every task ends with a receipt showing what it cost, you can set a monthly spending limit, and Nod checks in once a task passes $5. It has limits for now: it stops when your laptop sleeps, serves one owner only, and can't make phone calls, while a hosted version is on the roadmap. You can download it for Mac and Windows, and the code is on GitHub. The split of labour is now clear: your chat assistant is where you think, n8n runs your team's shared processes, and Nod takes the ongoing jobs that are yours alone — and if you have already weighed up the cost of self-hosting n8n, Nod can connect straight to your n8n instance.
