langgraph/README.md

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Trusted by companies shaping the future of agents – including Klarna, Replit, Elastic, and more – LangGraph is a low-level orchestration framework for building, managing, and deploying long-running, stateful agents.

## Get started

Install LangGraph:

```
pip install -U langgraph
```

Then, create an agent [using prebuilt components](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/agents/agents/):

```python
# pip install -qU "langchain[anthropic]" to call the model

from langgraph.prebuilt import create_react_agent

def get_weather(city: str) -> str:
    """Get weather for a given city."""
    return f"It's always sunny in {city}!"

agent = create_react_agent(
    model="anthropic:claude-3-7-sonnet-latest",
    tools=[get_weather],
    prompt="You are a helpful assistant"
)

# Run the agent
agent.invoke(
    {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "what is the weather in sf"}]}
)
```

For more information, see the [Quickstart](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/agents/agents/). Or, to learn how to build an [agent workflow](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/low_level/) with a customizable architecture, long-term memory, and other complex task handling, see the [LangGraph basics tutorials](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/tutorials/get-started/1-build-basic-chatbot/).

## Core benefits

LangGraph provides low-level supporting infrastructure for *any* long-running, stateful workflow or agent. LangGraph does not abstract prompts or architecture, and provides the following central benefits:

- [Durable execution](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/durable_execution/): Build agents that persist through failures and can run for extended periods, automatically resuming from exactly where they left off.
- [Human-in-the-loop](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/human_in_the_loop/): Seamlessly incorporate human oversight by inspecting and modifying agent state at any point during execution.
- [Comprehensive memory](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/memory/): Create truly stateful agents with both short-term working memory for ongoing reasoning and long-term persistent memory across sessions.
- [Debugging with LangSmith](http://www.langchain.com/langsmith): Gain deep visibility into complex agent behavior with visualization tools that trace execution paths, capture state transitions, and provide detailed runtime metrics.
- [Production-ready deployment](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/deployment_options/): Deploy sophisticated agent systems confidently with scalable infrastructure designed to handle the unique challenges of stateful, long-running workflows.

## LangGraph’s ecosystem

While LangGraph can be used standalone, it also integrates seamlessly with any LangChain product, giving developers a full suite of tools for building agents. To improve your LLM application development, pair LangGraph with:

- [LangSmith](http://www.langchain.com/langsmith) — Helpful for agent evals and observability. Debug poor-performing LLM app runs, evaluate agent trajectories, gain visibility in production, and improve performance over time.
- [LangGraph Platform](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/langgraph_platform/) — Deploy and scale agents effortlessly with a purpose-built deployment platform for long running, stateful workflows. Discover, reuse, configure, and share agents across teams — and iterate quickly with visual prototyping in [LangGraph Studio](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/langgraph_studio/).
- [LangChain](https://python.langchain.com/docs/introduction/) – Provides integrations and composable components to streamline LLM application development.

> [!NOTE]
> Looking for the JS version of LangGraph? See the [JS repo](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraphjs) and the [JS docs](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraphjs/).

## Additional resources

- [Guides](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/how-tos/): Quick, actionable code snippets for topics such as streaming, adding memory & persistence, and design patterns (e.g. branching, subgraphs, etc.).
- [Reference](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/reference/graphs/): Detailed reference on core classes, methods, how to use the graph and checkpointing APIs, and higher-level prebuilt components.
- [Examples](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/examples/): Guided examples on getting started with LangGraph.
- [LangChain Forum](https://forum.langchain.com/): Connect with the community and share all of your technical questions, ideas, and feedback.
- [LangChain Academy](https://academy.langchain.com/courses/intro-to-langgraph): Learn the basics of LangGraph in our free, structured course.
- [Templates](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/concepts/template_applications/): Pre-built reference apps for common agentic workflows (e.g. ReAct agent, memory, retrieval etc.) that can be cloned and adapted.
- [Case studies](https://www.langchain.com/built-with-langgraph): Hear how industry leaders use LangGraph to ship AI applications at scale.

## Acknowledgements

LangGraph is inspired by [Pregel](https://research.google/pubs/pub37252/) and [Apache Beam](https://beam.apache.org/). The public interface draws inspiration from [NetworkX](https://networkx.org/documentation/latest/). LangGraph is built by LangChain Inc, the creators of LangChain, but can be used without LangChain.