Generate contextual recommendations from Slack using Pinecone
Ready for 3.0Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.
What this workflow does
This AI workflow has 22 nodes and runs on Slack events. Along the way it connects Slack, Azure OpenAI Chat Model, Pinecone Vector Store and Embeddings Azure OpenAI and 3 more.
How it runs
Trigger: On Slack events.
- AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: Azure OpenAI Chat Model; output parser: Structured Output Parser
- Download file (Google Drive): uses Google Drive
- Extract from File: extracts data from a file
- AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: Azure OpenAI Chat Model; 2 tools (Pinecone Vector Store, Get row(s) in sheet in Google Sheets); output parser: Structured Output Parser
- Pinecone Vector Store: uses the Pinecone vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings Azure OpenAI
- AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: Azure OpenAI Chat Model; output parser: Auto-fixing Output Parser
- Edit Fields (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields
- Send a message (Slack): uses Slack
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.
- Still check Slack Trigger requires a signing secret on the Slack API credential (Slack Trigger).
Nodes used (13)
- Slack Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.slackTrigger - AI Agent
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent - Azure OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatAzureOpenAi - Pinecone Vector Store
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.vectorStorePinecone - Embeddings Azure OpenAI
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.embeddingsAzureOpenAi - Google Sheets Tool
n8n-nodes-base.googleSheetsTool - Reranker Cohere
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.rerankerCohere - Structured Output Parser
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured - Auto-fixing Output Parser
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserAutofixing - Google Drive
n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive - Extract from File
n8n-nodes-base.extractFromFile - Slack
n8n-nodes-base.slack - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set
From the author
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