The n8n AI assistant hangs "Thinking..."

Questions
1

I just started using n8n and built some useful Agents already. During my development, I asked the built-in AI assistant questions and received helpful answers.

This morning I asked it a question and it permanently hung with just “Thinking…”

instance information

Debug info

core

  • n8nVersion: 1.104.2

  • platform: docker (cloud)

  • nodeJsVersion: 22.17.0

  • database: sqlite

  • executionMode: regular

  • concurrency: 5

  • license: community

  • consumerId: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

storage

  • success: all

  • error: all

  • progress: false

  • manual: true

  • binaryMode: filesystem

pruning

  • enabled: true

  • maxAge: 168 hours

  • maxCount: 2500 executions

client

  • userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/138.0.0.0 safari/537.36

  • isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2025-08-03T16:08:01.840Z

2

Hi there, it might be just a one time thing, usually i just refresh it and it’s good

does it happen all the time, does it still happen? can you share us your workflow?