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Answer Hacker News Questions with an OpenAI Agent Tool

Runs an OpenAI-powered agent that calls a Hacker News lookup tool to answer questions about top posts. Runs when another workflow calls it.

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What it does

### Main workflow: AI agent using custom tool Try it out by clicking 'Chat' and entering 'What is the 5th most popular post ever on Hacker News?'

The steps

  1. When chat message received
  2. Custom tool to call the wf below1
  3. When Executed by Another Workflow
  4. Hacker News
  5. Clean up data
  6. Stringify
  7. AI Agent
  8. OpenAI Chat Model
  9. Error Handler

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