Manifest is now available as an n8n community node

Manifest now has a native n8n community node. The package is available on npm as n8n-nodes-manifest and ships two nodes: a Manifest Chat Model sub-node that plugs Manifest into n8n AI Agents, and a Manifest action node that calls the API directly from a workflow, without configuring a generic HTTP Request node.

Use Manifest as the model behind an n8n AI Agent

The Manifest Chat Model is a language-model sub-node built on n8n’s @n8n/ai-node-sdk. Connect it to the AI Agent or Basic LLM Chain node the same way you would connect the OpenAI Chat Model, and Manifest sits between the agent and the providers:

• The model list is loaded from your Manifest instance; the default auto lets Manifest route every request.
• Streaming and native tool calling are supported, so AI Agent tools work as expected.
• An optional setting switches the sub-node to the OpenAI Responses API.

The sub-node requires an n8n version that ships @n8n/ai-node-sdk (2026 releases).

Call Manifest directly from a workflow

The Manifest action node covers workflows that call the API without an AI Agent. It includes three operations:

• Create Chat Completion for OpenAI-compatible chat requests
• Create Response for OpenAI-compatible Responses API requests
• List Models to inspect the models available to a Manifest agent key

Both nodes work with Manifest Cloud and self-hosted Manifest deployments.

Install the Manifest node in n8n

In n8n, on Cloud or self-hosted:

1. Open Settings > Community Nodes.
2. Select Install.
3. Enter n8n-nodes-manifest.
4. Confirm the community-node warning and install the package.

These steps follow n8n’s community-node installation guide.

Connect n8n to Manifest

Both nodes share one Manifest API credential:

• Base URL: https://app.manifest.build for Manifest Cloud, or the root URL of your self-hosted deployment
• API Key: the agent API key shown in Manifest

The Base URL must not end in /v1; the nodes add the API path for each operation. If n8n runs in a container, a self-hosted Manifest URL must be reachable from that container.

Set Model to auto to use the routing configured for the Manifest agent. For a first test, choose Create Chat Completion on the action node and use:

[
  {
    "role": "user",
    "content": "Reply with one sentence confirming that Manifest is connected."
  }
]

Then execute the node. The selected Manifest route handles the request and the node returns the response as n8n workflow data.

Routing owns the response mode

Manifest routing determines whether a route returns buffered JSON or a streamed response. You do not need to add stream to Additional Body on the action node. For streamed routes, the node exposes the parsed server-sent events after the n8n step completes. The Chat Model sub-node streams natively into the AI Agent.

The node source lives in the Manifest repository. See the n8n setup page for the credential values and package links in one place.