Hi! I’m building an AI agent that takes user questions and sends them to OpenAI through the AI Agent node. I’ve configured the prompt manually using “Prompt Type: Define Below” with a clean instruction + chat input.
However, when the AI Agent passes the message to the OpenAI node, I see:
- 355 words are from my actual prompt + user input
- BUT an additional ~2000 words of unrelated data (starting with
"Tool": [{ "searchParameters": ... }]) are appended at the end.
This looks like some kind of auto-generated SERP or memory data. I’m not using external memory or vector store. I don’t want this data in the prompt and don’t understand where it’s coming from or why it’s included.
Questions:
- What is generating this extra “Tool” block?
- How do I prevent it from being included in the message sent to OpenAI?
- Why does it consume tokens if I didn’t explicitly ask for it?
Thanks in advance!
Hee is all garbage text that it generating:
AI:
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