👀 OpenAI Updates or How to Build Agents with N8N

Yesterday, OpenAI dropped an exciting update for AI agents, introducing a new Responses API that'll change how we build assistants. But no worries—if you're using the current assistant flow, you have a full year before it gets phased out. Here's a clear breakdown of the current workflow to keep you in the loop:

🔄 How Assistants Work (Current Approach):

1️⃣ Create Thread:

Keeps your conversation memory intact, just like ChatGPT does.
No need to manually handle memory nodes or constantly pass historical messages (unlike Claude).

2️⃣ Send Messages:

You can send images, text, files—whatever you need, even multiple messages at once.

3️⃣ Run Assistant:

Flexible Assistants: Choose different assistants depending on what you're trying to achieve.
Dynamic Prompts: Easily adjust prompts on-the-fly or throw in extra instructions mid-process.
Tools Integration:
Structured JSON Responses: Perfect if you need consistent results to automate next steps in your workflow.
Custom Tool Requests: Sometimes, your assistant might ask you to run a specific tool externally. When this happens, you'll perform the action, gather the results, and pass them back to the assistant for continued processing.

4️⃣ Retrieve Messages: