n8n releases open-source Nod personal agent for Mac and Windows

n8n says Nod comes from a new team that experiments outside the company’s core product.[1] The company describes Nod as an agent built for one person and their jobs, rather than a shared team assistant.[1] It is available for Mac and Windows, with its code on GitHub under an open-source licence.[1] The desktop app requires macOS 14 or later, while Windows 11 support is marked as a preview.[3] Nod does not require an n8n account or an initial server or cloud-service setup.[1] That makes the preview worth evaluating for people who want to try an individual agent without first setting up n8n.

Nod works in connected apps and on websites without integrations, according to n8n.[1] It can read connected apps and suggest jobs it could take on, and n8n says it can handle tasks such as cancelling subscriptions, declining retention offers and requesting refunds.[1] Several jobs can run in parallel in the background.[1] Nod records how it completed a task, reuses those notes and updates them when a site changes.[1] For users, the practical question is whether those capabilities fit a specific task and whether the results can be checked before they matter.

Nod’s published fresh-session result is 93.2% accuracy on questions about earlier conversations.[2] Its published task-completion result is 98% across 226 errands attempted three times each, or 678 runs.[2] The test used simulated accounts and websites, and the result does not prove that every possible action is safe.[2] Before Nod takes listed actions the user did not ask for, a separate check confirms whether they were requested.[1] n8n cautions that this permission check is itself a model and can make mistakes.[1] Teams assessing it should treat the reported results as test evidence, not a guarantee for their own workflows.

Nod stores its data, memory and saved logins on the computer or server running it, while its AI provider receives information needed for each task.[1] n8n says saved logins and payment cards are encrypted locally and entered through forms the model cannot read.[1] Users pay their chosen AI provider or can connect an open-source model running on their own computer.[1] Nod checks in when a task passes $5, and users can change that threshold.[1] On a laptop, Nod stops when the laptop sleeps; n8n lists managed hosting as an option for always-on use without running a server yourself.[1][3] Each installation currently has one owner, and Nod cannot make phone calls.[1]