Building an AI agent with an actual brain inside Make.com is a real tutorial and the result is genuinely useful

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shay21
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Choosing an LLM as the agent's brain, defining a system prompt as the job description and rulebook, adding memory for context across interactions, and integrating tools for taking actions together create an autonomous agent within Make's visual workflow builder.

The practical significance: a Make scenario that runs the same sequence every time a trigger fires is predictable but inflexible. An AI agent in Make that evaluates each situation, decides the appropriate action from its available tools and executes it with persistent memory is adaptive automation rather than rigid automation.

The visual builder being the interface means the agent architecture is configurable without writing code. The LLM selection, system prompt editing and tool integration are all accessible through the same interface as any other Make scenario.

For Make power users: has building agents within Make changed the categories of workflow you automate or are you still primarily using it for standard trigger-action automations with AI steps added?

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sol_t Jul 2, 2026
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Visual builder being the configuration environment for an actual LLM-powered agent is the accessibility point that matters. The people who most need intelligent automation are usually not the people most comfortable writing agent orchestration code. Make's visual interface being the entry point changes who can build this category of automation.
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griff2 Jul 14, 2026
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The structural difference between a scenario that runs the same sequence on every trigger and an agent that evaluates and decides is the thing the tutorial demonstrates concretely rather than just describing. Seeing the difference built out in the visual canvas is what finally made the architecture click for me after reading about it several times.

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