🤖 MCP Personal Assistant Workflow Description

This workflow integrates multiple productivity tools into a single AI-powered assistant using n8n, acting as a centralized control hub to receive and execute tasks across Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.

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✅ Key Capabilities

• AI Agent + Tool Use : Built using n8n's AI Agent and MCP system, enabling intelligent multi-step reasoning.
• Tool Integration :
  • Google Calendar: schedule, update, delete events
  • Gmail: search, draft, send emails
  • Google Drive: manage files and folders
  • LinkedIn & Twitter: post updates, send DMs
  • Utility tools: fetch date/time, search URLs
• Discord Input : Accepts prompts via n8n_discord_trigger_bot repo link

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🛠 Setup Instructions

1. Timezone Configuration :

   • Go to Settings > Default Timezone in n8n.
   • Set to your local timezone (e.g., Asia/Jakarta).
   • Ensure all Date & Time nodes explicitly use the same zone to avoid UTC-related bugs.

2. Tool Authentication :

   • Replace all OAuth credentials for:
     • Gmail
     • Google Drive
     • Google Calendar
     • Twitter
     • LinkedIn
   • Use your own accounts when copying this workflow.

3. Platform Adaptability :

   • While designed for Discord, you can replace the Discord trigger with any other chat or webhook service.
   • Example: Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp Webhook, n8n Form Trigger, etc.

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📦 Strengths

• Great for document retrieval , email summarization , calendar scheduling , and social posting.
• Reduces the need for tab-switching across multiple platforms.
• Tested with a comprehensive checklist across categories like:
  • Calendar
  • Gmail
  • Google Drive
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Utility tools
  • Cross-tool actions
    (Refer to discordGPT prompt checklist for prompt coverage.)

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⚠️ Limitations

• ❌ Binary Uploads :

  • AI agents & MCP server currently struggle with binary payloads.
  • Uploading files to Gmail, Google Drive, or LinkedIn may fail due to format serialization issues.
  • Binary operations (upload/post) are under development and will be fixed in future iterations.

• ❌ Date Bugs :

  • If timezone settings are incorrect, event times may default to UTC, leading to misaligned calendar events.

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🔬 Testing

Use the provided prompt checklist for full coverage of:

• ✅ Core feature flows
• ✅ Edge cases (e.g., invalid dates, nonexistent users)
• ✅ Cross-tool chains (e.g., Google Drive → Gmail → LinkedIn)

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✅ MCP Assistant Test Prompt Checklist

📅 Google Calendar

• "Schedule a meeting with Alice tomorrow at 10am. and send an invite to [email protected]"
• "Create an event called 'Project Sync' on Friday at 3pm with Bob and Charlie."
• "Update the time of my call with James to next Monday at 2pm."
• "Delete my meeting with Marketing next Wednesday."
• "What is my schedule tommorow ? "

📧 Gmail

• "Show me unread emails from this week."
• "Search for emails with subject: invoice"
• "Reply to the latest email from [email protected] saying 'Thanks, noted!'"
• "Draft an email to [email protected] with subject 'Emp0 Fundraising' and draft the body of the email with an investment opportunity in Emp0, scrape this site https://Emp0.com to get to know more about emp0.com"
• "Send an email to [email protected] with subject 'Feature request' and cc [email protected]"
• "Send an email to [email protected] , write about how you like their product and want to apply for a job there and attach my latest CV from Google Drivce"

🗂 Google Drive

• "Upload the PDF you just sent me to my Google Drive."
• "Create a folder called 'July Reports' inside Emp0 shared drive."
• "Move the file named 'Q2_Review.pdf' to 'Reports/2024/Q2'."
• "Share the folder 'Investor Decks' with [email protected] as viewer."
• "Download the file 'Wayne_Li_CV.pdf' and attach it in Discord."
• "Search for a file named 'Invoice May' in my Google Drive."

🖼 LinkedIn

• "Think of a random and inspiring quote. Post a text update on LinkedIn with the quote and end with a question so people will answer and increase engagement"
• "Post this Google Drive image to LinkedIn with the caption: 'Team offsite snapshots!'"
• "Summarize the contents of this workflow and post it on linkedin with the original url https://n8n.io/workflows/5230-content-farming-ai-powered-blog-automation-for-wordpress/"

🐦 Twitter

• "Tweet: 'AI is eating operations. Fast.'"
• "Send a DM to @founderguy: 'Would love to connect on what you’re building.'"
• "Search Twitter for keyword: 'founder advice'"

🌐 Utilities

• "What time is it now?"
• "Download this PDF: https://ontheline.trincoll.edu/images/bookdown/sample-local-pdf.pdf"
• "Search this URL and summarize important tech updates today: https://techcrunch.com/feed/"

📎 Discord Attachments

• "Take the image I just uploaded and post it to LinkedIn."
• "Get the file from my last message and upload it to Google Drive."

🧪 Edge Cases

• "Schedule a meeting on Feb 30."
• "Send a DM to @user_that_does_not_exist"
• "Download a 50MB PDF and post it to LinkedIn"
• "Get the latest tweet from my timeline and email it to myself."

🔗 Cross-tool Flows

• "Get the latest image from my Google Drive and post it on LinkedIn with the caption 'Another milestone hit!'"
• "Find the latest PDF report in Google Drive and email it to [email protected]."
• "Download an image from this link and upload it to my Google Drive: https://example.com/image.png"
• "Get the most recent attachment from my inbox and upload it to Google Drive."

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Run each of these in isolated test cases. For cross-tool flows, verify binary serialization integrity.

🧠 Why Use This Workflow?

This is an always-on personal assistant that can:

• Process natural language input
• Handle multi-step logic
• Execute commands across 6+ platforms
• Be extended with more tools and memory

If you want to interact with all your work tools from a single prompt—this is your base to start.

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📎 Repo & Credits

• Discord bot trigger: n8n_discord_trigger_bot
• Creator: Jay (Emp₀)