My AI Agent node doesn't have the ai agent tool option. I tried on both cloud and selfhost. Can someone help me know why and how to fix it? Thanks

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You’re setting up the AI Agent node in n8n and seeing a warning because:

The “Prompt (User Message)” field is empty, and it’s required unless it’s being automatically populated from another node (like a Chat Trigger).
You have chosen the “Connected Chat Trigger Node” as your source, but the actual Prompt box still needs some user input or mapping if the trigger doesn’t supply it directly.

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Thanks for ur answer, but i mean my n8n verson don’t have selcet options like this

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My verson only show 2 options here:

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not have select Agent: Tools agent, conversational agent,…
I want to fix it or add for my user interface that (have select: tools agent, conversational agent,…)

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Provide the following information:

n8n version:

Database (default: SQLite):

n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):

Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):

Operating system:

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I’m trying with Version 1.86.1 on docker server cloud (Ubuntu 24.04.2 ) and free trial verson on cloud, Database default, all have no select options agent tools. Thanks

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Same issue here. any ideas anyone on why my ai agent node looks like this and doesn’t have the tool and chat and memory inputs?

  1. it’s a very weird issue, i’ve been working with n8n for long and never had an issue like this. been trying to debug the whole day and couldn’t find the issue. I even created a whole new VM from scratch to host my self-hosted n8n instance and same issue still.
  2. everything else works except from the ai agent node. i just used the latest docker image with standard setup, which used to work until now

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Hi, try pasting this into your workflow.