Agent builders wrestle with bloated prompts and opaque workflows
n8n builders and other agent developers struggle to manage long, overlapping prompts: they consume context and are cumbersome to debug across multi-prompt workflows. The evidence points to gaps in progressive disclosure, external prompt references, and visibility into the prompts and inputs flowing through agents. One related request is for a simpler way to trigger OpenAI Agents from n8n.
For n8n builders and developers maintaining multi-prompt agent workflows. Mentioned from May 2025 to Mar 2026 on product forums and Hacker News.
5 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 6.0/10
- Pain
- 5.2/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I’ve been running into this exact problem managing several production agents with large, overlapping system prompts — the context window cost adds up fast, and there’s no clean way to do progressive disclosure natively
The size and complexity of the system prompt has been a limiting factor
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