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A practical answer to 'how can I make money with an AI agent?': pick one of three proven models (service you sell, refunds/savings you recover, small digital products), let the agent do the research and grunt work, keep the human for approvals and payouts. Links to tested step-by-step recipes.

Step-by-step: create a minimal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with the official Python SDK, expose one useful tool, test it locally, and add it to an MCP client such as Claude Code or Cursor. No paid tools needed.

Use self-hosted n8n (free community edition) to build an AI agent workflow that reads new customer emails, classifies them, drafts a reply from your FAQ and puts it in Drafts for a human to approve. Concrete node-by-node steps.

An AI agent transcribes a long video with Whisper, picks the strongest 30-60 second moments, cuts vertical 9:16 clips with burned-in captions using ffmpeg, and queues them for human review before posting to YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels. All $0 tools.

n8n's chat window shows 'Error: Failed to receive response' but the model works elsewhere? It's usually n8n's own webhook URL (N8N_HOST / WEBHOOK_URL) being unreachable from the browser, not the model. Here's how to tell which and fix it.