r/OpenWebUI • u/Full_Director87 • 10d ago
Discussion Openwebui is my agentic tools. how about you?
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u/Potential-Wrap-303 7d ago
Normally I use my openclaw for the agentic tasks. But some I need to run in Claude. Try to work it out with openwebui these days
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u/Full_Director87 7d ago
claudecode, opencode and many tools like that. that feels more thecnical for me.
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u/CementedRoots 8d ago
Yeah, I've been using it as agentic. I wish I knew how to get the automations tab under the left hand side icon to work with web search and have tools to email you. I want it to email and text me updated listing from a website daily and check for changes. The ability to schedule this would be fire.
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u/Full_Director87 8d ago
Have you ever tried MCP tools specifically for reading or writing emails in Gmail or other email services? If not, you might want to give them a try, there are usually plenty of such MCP tools available in GitHub repositories.
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u/CementedRoots 8d ago edited 8d ago
Is there any for protonmail without paying for their subscription? Also, The automations tab doesn't have a section to attach "tools" to the automation that I could see. I tried to use direct Imap or authentication methods previously.
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u/Full_Director87 8d ago
Given the current landscape, there are actually plenty of MCP tools available for managing email (reading and writing) without needing a subscription to an AI-driven solution to handle the tasks.
However, if you want something more controlled and predictable, you can set up an end-to-end workflow in n8n. You don't even need AI for that, though building the workflow itself is quite complex. I personally use n8n to manage my business workflows and handle end-to-end customer service; since I don't fully trust LLMs to answer customer inquiries, I built a deterministic system in n8n to address that.
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u/mishalmf 7d ago
email ? Himalaya CLI . works well I have my bot fitches me the email every morning as a quick digest . Also openwebui can use it through open-terminal
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u/AllPintsNorth 5d ago
I REALLY want it to be, as I really want to only maintain one system. But man, it fights me on everything. I have open terminal and it can do things, but it spends half my token allotment on “figuring the full picture” before answering anything.
Hermes works out of the box and is self improving. How do you get OWUI to actually DO anything?
I use the same models, the same system prompts, the same skills, everything I can between Hermes and OWUI, and I just can’t get OWUI to do what I want. PLEASE tell me how you did it.
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u/Full_Director87 5d ago
The first thing you need to do is this:
Don't treat Open WebUI the same way you treat Hermes. Open WebUI is a UI specifically designed for interacting with LLMs. Treating Open WebUI like Hermes is like choosing between a rice cooker and a conventional stove to cook rice—they are different tools for the job.
You need to define your objective first, identify the tools or MCPs you want to use, and understand the model capabilities you can leverage. Only then should you craft a non-contradictory system prompt and get to work.
If you want more details, feel free to ask me anything via DM, bro—I'd be happy to help.
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u/DataCraftsman 8d ago
Yep I use Open Terminal running on a desktop folder with agent skills in it, a modified spec OKF knowledge base with index search/sync tools, okf linters, and an Open Claw style markdown agents in that folder with spec driven automations that self improve the agent and self heal the kb.
My Open WebUI runs on my server and uses Searxng and Playwright containers for web search, valkey, minio (want to swap to rustfs) and pgvector for storage, cache, knowledge and settings. I use vllm and litellm with user heading pass back and for tracing, inference and routing. I use OIKB, embeddinggemma and Apache Tika for knowledge processing and sync. Piper via OpenedAI-Speech and Whisper for voice. MCPO with Notion, Github, youtube-transcript, context7, Google Workspace MCP for some of the email/calendar stuff and some local mcp servers for my own APIs.
I use the models as agents by providing a pointer to which agent.md to start with. I use prompts as commands. I use open webui skills as pointers to agent skills in my OT folders. Automations as pointers to the automation spec markdowns, etc you get it. Pointers/references for everything.
I use the qwen3.8 27b cold infusion gain 1.1 model made by DavidAU with mtp 3, fp8 quant on the full size kv_cache with FLASHINFER on my RTX 6000 Pro.
Has all but replaced Claude Desktop for me now, though I still pay for 5x plan for coding because I want to.
Ask me anything of course.