langchain_prompt_placeholder_formatTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-langchain-prompt-pla-when-using-getlangchainprompt-with-unresolved-plac-035c73d5

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF When using getLangchainPrompt() with unresolved placeholders, LangChain throws 'Unable to coerce message from array' error.

How others solved it

THEN Upgrade to Langfuse JS SDK v4.2.0 or later to fix the output format, or manually transform unresolved placeholder objects to { type: 'placeholder', name: msg.variableName } before passing to ChatPromptTemplate.fromMessages.

const rawMessages = langfusePrompt.getLangchainPrompt();
const fixedMessages = rawMessages.map(msg => {
  if (msg.variableName && typeof msg.optional === "boolean") {
    return { type: "placeholder", name: msg.variableName };
  }
  return msg;
});
const langchainPrompt = ChatPromptTemplate.fromMessages(fixedMessages);

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