Cheney Zhang This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #3576 — we link there as the canonical source.
This workflow follows the Agent → Chat Trigger recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.
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"name": "Agent Milvus tool",
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"name": "Fetch Essay List",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"position": [
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"parameters": {
"url": "http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html",
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"parameters": {
"url": "=http://www.paulgraham.com/{{ $json.essay }}",
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"content": "## Scrape latest Paul Graham essays"
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"content": "## Load into Milvus vector database"
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"name": "Recursive Character Text Splitter1",
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"mode": "list",
"value": "n8n_test",
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"name": "<your credential>"
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"content": "## Step 1\n1. Set up a Milvus server based on [this guide](https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker-compose.md). And then create a collection named `n8n_test`.\n2. Click this workflow to load scrape and load Paul Graham essays to Milvus collection.\n"
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"parameters": {
"options": {},
"jsonData": "={{ $('Extract Text Only').item.json.data }}",
"jsonMode": "expressionData"
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"parameters": {
"mode": "retrieve-as-tool",
"toolName": "milvus_knowledge_base",
"toolDescription": "useful when you need to retrieve information",
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"__rl": true,
"mode": "list",
"value": "n8n_test",
"cachedResultName": "n8n_test"
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"content": "## Step 2\nStart to chat with the AI Agent with Milvus tool"
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"mode": "list",
"value": "gpt-4o-mini"
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"connections": {
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"Embeddings OpenAI": {
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"When chat message received": {
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}
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About this workflow
This workflow creates a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system using Milvus vector database to search Paul Graham essays: Scrape & Load: Fetches Paul Graham essays, extracts text, and stores them as vector embeddings in Milvus Chat Interface: Enables semantic search and…
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