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#27984feat(editor): Add Instance AI prompt suggestions

Prompt suggestions added to Instance AI composer

Prompt suggestions added to Instance AI composer
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romeobalta
·Apr 13, 2026

Instance AI now shows prompt suggestions when the composer is empty. Users can hover to preview prompts and click to submit directly, with a Quick examples menu for common workflows.

When users open Instance AI with an empty composer, they now see clickable prompt suggestions that help them get started. Hovering over a suggestion previews the full prompt text in the input field without inserting it, letting users see exactly what will be sent. Clicking any suggestion submits it immediately.

A "Quick examples" menu expands to reveal more specific workflow prompts — monitoring competitors, automating email, routing support requests, answering questions with an agent, and tracking inventory. Each example follows the same hover-preview and click-to-submit pattern.

Suggestions disappear automatically when the user types, attaches files, sends a message, or when historical messages are loading. This keeps the UI clean and prevents accidental submissions in the wrong context.

These changes touch the n8n editor's AI feature — specifically the composer input, the AI store, and the empty state view. The store work also prevents a race condition where rapid clicks on a brand-new thread could create duplicate first messages before thread persistence completes.

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Summary

  • Add empty-state prompt suggestions to the Instance AI composer.
  • Add a Quick examples menu with predefined prompts.
  • Preview prompt copy on hover and submit selected prompts directly.
  • Hide suggestions once the composer is no longer empty, while a send is pending, or while an existing thread is still hydrating.
  • Extract the suggestions UI into a dedicated component and extend focused frontend tests.
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Context

This PR includes a small amount of store and view work in addition to the new pills UI.

That extra work is there to support the new submission behavior safely:

  • Prompt suggestions now submit directly, so rapid repeated clicks on a brand-new thread can otherwise create duplicate first messages before thread persistence finishes.
  • Existing threads temporarily clear local messages before historical messages hydrate, which can otherwise make empty-state suggestions flash briefly in the wrong context.

How to test

  1. Open Instance AI on a new thread and verify the prompt suggestions render under the empty composer.
  2. Hover a prompt pill and verify the input shows preview text without inserting anything.
  3. Open Quick examples, hover an example, and verify the input preview updates.
  4. Click a prompt pill and verify it submits immediately.
  5. Click a quick example and verify it submits immediately.
  6. Repeatedly click a prompt on a brand-new thread and verify only one first message / run is created.
  7. Open an existing thread and verify empty-state suggestions do not appear while history is still loading.

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Review / Merge checklist

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  • Docs updated or follow-up ticket created.
  • Tests included.
  • PR Labeled with Backport to Beta, Backport to Stable, or Backport to v1 (if the PR is an urgent fix that needs to be backported)
  • I have seen this code, I have run this code, and I take responsibility for this code.
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