No AI Agent selectable in ocal n8n installation

Hello everyone,

I am using n8n on a “local” or cloud installation via Render. When creating workflows, I also want to add AI agents. Strangely, I cannot choose which type of AI agent to use in the node selection. Please see:

The selection window does not appear for me.

In many YouTube videos and also here in the community, an additional selection field is still shown.


What could be the reason for this, and what can I do to fix it?

@Lukas_Windeck, unfortunately, you can’t. As far as I know, the additional field is only available in the cloud version of n8n, not in the self-hosted version.

Actually, it’s available on both. I’m currently experiencing this same issue the moment I upgraded the cloud version of my n8n instance (NOTE: cloud not self-hosted), I could no longer find the Agent drop down option to select other agents. I upgraded yesterday to 1.82.1

Hey, I experienced the same problem but it seems to be intentional

Here is an issue reported regatding that: After upgrade to 1.82.1 no more Agent dropdown in AI Agent · Issue #13902 · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub

And here PR with information that since 1.82.0 Tool agent is the only recommended and others are deprecated: feat(core): Make Tools Agent the default Agent type, deprecate other agent types by Cadiac · Pull Request #13459 · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub

This was indeed intentional, as you’ve referenced the PR.

What is your experience with the new “uniform” AI Agent node? We’d be happy to hear your feedback!