I'm building an AI-powered Inventory Management System using n8n, Airtable, and the Groq API with an OpenAI-compatible chat model. I've completed the CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete), but I'm facing an inconsistent issue. Sometimes the AI works perfectly: ✅ Adds a new product ✅ Updates a product ✅ Deletes a product ✅ Retrieves inventory data However, other times, when I ask something like: "Add a new product: Keyboard, buy price 15, sell price 20, current stock 40, minimum stock 5" instead of calling the tool correctly, it returns the function call as plain text: <function>Create_a_record_in_Airtable</function>{"productName":"Keyboard","buyPrice":15,"sellPrice":20,"currentStock":40,"minimumStock":5} Instead of actually executing the tool. I'm using the Groq API through the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Has anyone experienced this behavior? Is this a limitation of Groq's OpenAI-compatible API? Is there a specific model that has more reliable tool/function calling? Could this be a prompt issue, or am I missing a required configuration in n8n? Are there best practices to make function calling more consistent? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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