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Guides building LLM applications with LangChain's chain/agent abstractions and, for stateful multi-step agents, LangGraph's graph-based orchestration (nodes, edges, cycles, checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop interrupts). Use when a user asks to "build this with LangChain," "use LangGraph for a stateful agent," "add persistence/checkpointing to a LangChain agent," "add a human approval step in a LangGraph graph," "my LangChain agent loses state between turns," or is deciding between LangChain's `AgentExecutor`, a LangGraph graph, and a hand-rolled control loop.

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LangChain and LangGraph Agent Orchestration

Purpose

LangChain provides two things that are easy to conflate: a set of composable building blocks (prompt templates, model wrappers, retrievers, output parsers, chained via LangChain Expression Language / Runnable), and a higher-level AgentExecutor that wraps those blocks into a single-loop, tool-calling agent. LangGraph is a separate, lower-level runtime built by the same project specifically for agents whose control flow is not a single linear loop — it models the agent as an explicit graph of nodes and edges, supports cycles (a node can route back to an earlier node), and adds two capabilities AgentExecutor does not have out of the box: durable checkpointed state (so a run can pause, crash, and resume from its last checkpoint) and first-class human-in-the-loop interrupts (a graph can pause at a named node until a human approves, edits, or rejects the pending state). This skill covers choosing between plain LangChain composition, AgentExecutor, and LangGraph, and operating LangGraph's persistence and interrupt features correctly. It is a framework-specific complement to agent-architecture-design, which covers the underlying control-flow patterns (ReAct loop, plan-and-execute, finite-state/graph) in a vendor-neutral way — LangGraph is one concrete runtime that implements the finite-state/graph pattern described there. For tool access, LangChain/LangGraph agents can call tools defined directly in Python or exposed via an MCP server; see mcp-server-development for building the tool-serving side, which this skill treats as an external dependency rather than repeating.

When to use

Deciding whether a task needs plain LangChain chain composition (a fixed pipeline, no branching), AgentExecutor (a single ReAct-style tool-calling loop), or a LangGraph graph (multi-step, branching, cyclical, or needing persistence/human approval).
Building an agent whose steps depend on prior results in ways a single linear chain can't express — retries, conditional branches, or loops back to an earlier step.
Adding durable state to a LangChain/LangGraph agent so a long-running or multi-session workflow survives a process restart or crash mid-run.
Adding a human-in-the-loop approval checkpoint before an irreversible tool call in an existing LangGraph graph.
An agent built with AgentExecutor loses context, re-does completed work, or can't be paused/resumed, and the team is evaluating migrating it to LangGraph.
Debugging a LangGraph graph that loops indefinitely, gets stuck at an interrupt, or fails to restore state correctly from a checkpoint.

Prerequisites & environment

Python (LangChain/LangGraph's primary, most mature ecosystem) or JavaScript/TypeScript (langchain/langgraph npm packages, closely mirroring the Python API but with some feature lag) — pick one and check current package versions before starting, since both projects have had breaking changes across major versions (notably the LangChain 0.1 → 0.2/0.3 restructuring that split core, community, and partner packages).
An LLM provider integration package (e.g. langchain-anthropic, langchain-openai) installed separately from langchain-core — recent LangChain versions moved provider-specific code out of the core package.
For LangGraph persistence: a checkpointer backend — the in-memory MemorySaver for local development/testing only (state is lost on process exit), or a durable checkpointer (SQLite, Postgres, or a managed backend) for anything that must survive a restart.
Tool definitions the agent will call, either as plain Python functions decorated with LangChain's @tool, or proxied from an MCP server via an MCP-to-LangChain adapter — confirm which integration path your LangChain version currently supports before assuming API shape.
Clarity on which parts of the workflow are genuinely cyclical/branching (justifying LangGraph) versus a fixed sequence (better served by a plain LCEL chain) — reach for LangGraph only once a chain's limitations are concrete, mirroring the "justify the split" discipline in agent-architecture-design.

Step-by-step guidance

Start with the simplest abstraction that fits the task's shape. A fixed sequence (retrieve → prompt → parse) is a plain LCEL chain:

from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic

prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
    ("system", "Summarize the following ticket in one sentence."),
    ("human", "{ticket_text}"),
])
model = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5", temperature=0)
chain = prompt | model | StrOutputParser()
result = chain.invoke({"ticket_text": ticket_body})

No loop, no tool calls, no branching — a chain is the right tool and adding AgentExecutor or LangGraph here is unjustified complexity.

Use AgentExecutor only for a single, bounded ReAct-style loop with no need for persistence, human interrupts, or branching beyond tool-call/no-tool-call:

from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_tool_calling_agent
from langchain_core.tools import tool

@tool
def search_tickets(query: str) -> str:
    """Search support tickets by keyword. Returns matching ticket IDs."""
    return ticketing_backend.search(query)

agent = create_tool_calling_agent(model, [search_tickets], prompt)
executor = AgentExecutor(
    agent=agent, tools=[search_tickets],
    max_iterations=8, max_execution_time=60,   # bound the loop explicitly
)
result = executor.invoke({"input": "find open billing tickets"})

max_iterations/max_execution_time are AgentExecutor's equivalent of the hard iteration cap and timeout described in agent-architecture-design — set both explicitly; the defaults are more permissive than most production use cases want.

Move to LangGraph once the task needs cycles, branching, persistence, or a human checkpoint. Model the agent as a typed state object and a graph of nodes:

from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver

class TicketState(TypedDict):
    ticket_id: str
    category: str
    draft_reply: str
    approved: bool

def triage(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
    category = classify(state["ticket_id"])
    return {**state, "category": category}

def draft(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
    reply = generate_draft(state["ticket_id"], state["category"])
    return {**state, "draft_reply": reply}

def route_after_triage(state: TicketState) -> str:
    return "escalate" if state["category"] == "legal" else "draft"

graph = StateGraph(TicketState)
graph.add_node("triage", triage)
graph.add_node("draft", draft)
graph.add_node("escalate", lambda s: {**s, "approved": False})
graph.set_entry_point("triage")
graph.add_conditional_edges("triage", route_after_triage, {"draft": "draft", "escalate": "escalate"})
graph.add_edge("draft", END)
graph.add_edge("escalate", END)

app = graph.compile(checkpointer=MemorySaver())

This is the finite-state/graph pattern from agent-architecture-design expressed directly in LangGraph's API — nodes are states, edges (plain or conditional) are transitions.

Add a human-in-the-loop interrupt at the highest-leverage node, not everywhere, using interrupt_before/interrupt_after at compile time:
```
app = graph.compile(
    checkpointer=MemorySaver(),
    interrupt_before=["send_reply"],   # pause here every run until resumed
)

config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "ticket-8842"}}
app.invoke(initial_state, config=config)   # runs up to send_reply, then pauses

# ... a human reviews the checkpointed state out-of-band ...

app.invoke(None, config=config)            # resumes from the paused checkpoint
```
Passing None as input on resume is deliberate — it tells LangGraph to continue from the last checkpoint rather than starting a new run; passing a real input restarts the thread instead.

Warning: compiling a graph that reaches an irreversible-write node (sending a message, executing a payment, deleting a resource) with no interrupt_before on that node means it will execute automatically the first time the graph reaches it, with no human checkpoint at all. Do not rely on prompt wording alone to prevent an irreversible action — gate it structurally with interrupt_before, the same discipline described for any irreversible tool in agent-architecture-design.
Choose a checkpointer backend deliberately for the deployment target. MemorySaver is fine for local development and tests; anything long-running or multi-process needs a durable checkpointer:
```
from langgraph.checkpoint.sqlite import SqliteSaver
# or, for production multi-instance deployments:
# from langgraph.checkpoint.postgres import PostgresSaver

with SqliteSaver.from_conn_string("checkpoints.db") as checkpointer:
    app = graph.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
```
Every checkpointed run needs a stable thread_id in config; reusing a thread_id across unrelated tasks corrupts that thread's history.

Bound cycles explicitly. A conditional edge that can route back to an earlier node (e.g. draft -> review -> draft on rejection) needs an explicit counter in state and a hard cap, or a rejection loop can run indefinitely:

def route_after_review(state: TicketState) -> str:
    if state.get("revision_count", 0) >= 3:
        return "escalate"          # fail closed after 3 rejected drafts
    return "draft" if not state["approved"] else END

Stream intermediate state for observability, rather than only consuming the final result — both AgentExecutor and LangGraph support streaming (.stream()/.astream()), which surfaces each tool call and state transition as it happens, matching the "instrument every loop iteration" guidance in agent-architecture-design.
Compose multiple LangGraph graphs for multi-agent topologies rather than hand-rolling a supervisor loop, when the task genuinely needs multiple specialized roles — a compiled graph can itself be a node in a parent graph. Confirm this split is justified per multi-agent-orchestration before introducing it; LangGraph makes multi-agent easy to wire, not automatically the right call.

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name: langchain-and-langgraph-agent-orchestration
description: >
  Guides building LLM applications with LangChain's chain/agent abstractions
  and, for stateful multi-step agents, LangGraph's graph-based orchestration
  (nodes, edges, cycles, checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop
  interrupts). Use when a user asks to "build this with LangChain," "use
  LangGraph for a stateful agent," "add persistence/checkpointing to a
  LangChain agent," "add a human approval step in a LangGraph graph," "my
  LangChain agent loses state between turns," or is deciding between
  LangChain's `AgentExecutor`, a LangGraph graph, and a hand-rolled control
  loop.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI"
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---
name: langchain-and-langgraph-agent-orchestration
description: >
  Guides building LLM applications with LangChain's chain/agent abstractions
  and, for stateful multi-step agents, LangGraph's graph-based orchestration
  (nodes, edges, cycles, checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop
  interrupts). Use when a user asks to "build this with LangChain," "use
  LangGraph for a stateful agent," "add persistence/checkpointing to a
  LangChain agent," "add a human approval step in a LangGraph graph," "my
  LangChain agent loses state between turns," or is deciding between
  LangChain's `AgentExecutor`, a LangGraph graph, and a hand-rolled control
  loop.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI"
metadata:
  domain: ai-agent
  maturity: stable
---

# LangChain and LangGraph Agent Orchestration

## Purpose

LangChain provides two things that are easy to conflate: a set of composable
building blocks (prompt templates, model wrappers, retrievers, output
parsers, chained via LangChain Expression Language / `Runnable`), and a
higher-level `AgentExecutor` that wraps those blocks into a single-loop,
tool-calling agent. LangGraph is a separate, lower-level runtime built by the
same project specifically for agents whose control flow is not a single
linear loop — it models the agent as an explicit graph of nodes and edges,
supports cycles (a node can route back to an earlier node), and adds two
capabilities `AgentExecutor` does not have out of the box: durable
checkpointed state (so a run can pause, crash, and resume from its last
checkpoint) and first-class human-in-the-loop interrupts (a graph can pause
at a named node until a human approves, edits, or rejects the pending
state). This skill covers choosing between plain LangChain composition,
`AgentExecutor`, and LangGraph, and operating LangGraph's persistence and
interrupt features correctly. It is a framework-specific complement to
[agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md), which
covers the underlying control-flow patterns (ReAct loop, plan-and-execute,
finite-state/graph) in a vendor-neutral way — LangGraph is one concrete
runtime that implements the finite-state/graph pattern described there. For
tool access, LangChain/LangGraph agents can call tools defined directly in
Python or exposed via an MCP server; see
[mcp-server-development](../mcp-server-development/SKILL.md) for building
the tool-serving side, which this skill treats as an external dependency
rather than repeating.

## When to use

- Deciding whether a task needs plain LangChain chain composition (a fixed
  pipeline, no branching), `AgentExecutor` (a single ReAct-style tool-calling
  loop), or a LangGraph graph (multi-step, branching, cyclical, or needing
  persistence/human approval).
- Building an agent whose steps depend on prior results in ways a single
  linear chain can't express — retries, conditional branches, or loops back
  to an earlier step.
- Adding durable state to a LangChain/LangGraph agent so a long-running or
  multi-session workflow survives a process restart or crash mid-run.
- Adding a human-in-the-loop approval checkpoint before an irreversible tool
  call in an existing LangGraph graph.
- An agent built with `AgentExecutor` loses context, re-does completed work,
  or can't be paused/resumed, and the team is evaluating migrating it to
  LangGraph.
- Debugging a LangGraph graph that loops indefinitely, gets stuck at an
  interrupt, or fails to restore state correctly from a checkpoint.

## Prerequisites & environment

- Python (LangChain/LangGraph's primary, most mature ecosystem) or
  JavaScript/TypeScript (`langchain`/`langgraph` npm packages, closely
  mirroring the Python API but with some feature lag) — pick one and check
  current package versions before starting, since both projects have had
  breaking changes across major versions (notably the LangChain 0.1 → 0.2/0.3
  restructuring that split core, community, and partner packages).
- An LLM provider integration package (e.g. `langchain-anthropic`,
  `langchain-openai`) installed separately from `langchain-core` — recent
  LangChain versions moved provider-specific code out of the core package.
- For LangGraph persistence: a checkpointer backend — the in-memory
  `MemorySaver` for local development/testing only (state is lost on
  process exit), or a durable checkpointer (SQLite, Postgres, or a
  managed backend) for anything that must survive a restart.
- Tool definitions the agent will call, either as plain Python functions
  decorated with LangChain's `@tool`, or proxied from an MCP server via an
  MCP-to-LangChain adapter — confirm which integration path your LangChain
  version currently supports before assuming API shape.
- Clarity on which parts of the workflow are genuinely cyclical/branching
  (justifying LangGraph) versus a fixed sequence (better served by a plain
  LCEL chain) — reach for LangGraph only once a chain's limitations are
  concrete, mirroring the "justify the split" discipline in
  [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

## Step-by-step guidance

1. **Start with the simplest abstraction that fits the task's shape.** A
   fixed sequence (retrieve → prompt → parse) is a plain LCEL chain:
   ```python
   from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
   from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
   from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic

   prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
       ("system", "Summarize the following ticket in one sentence."),
       ("human", "{ticket_text}"),
   ])
   model = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5", temperature=0)
   chain = prompt | model | StrOutputParser()
   result = chain.invoke({"ticket_text": ticket_body})
   ```
   No loop, no tool calls, no branching — a chain is the right tool and
   adding `AgentExecutor` or LangGraph here is unjustified complexity.

2. **Use `AgentExecutor` only for a single, bounded ReAct-style loop** with
   no need for persistence, human interrupts, or branching beyond
   tool-call/no-tool-call:
   ```python
   from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_tool_calling_agent
   from langchain_core.tools import tool

   @tool
   def search_tickets(query: str) -> str:
       """Search support tickets by keyword. Returns matching ticket IDs."""
       return ticketing_backend.search(query)

   agent = create_tool_calling_agent(model, [search_tickets], prompt)
   executor = AgentExecutor(
       agent=agent, tools=[search_tickets],
       max_iterations=8, max_execution_time=60,   # bound the loop explicitly
   )
   result = executor.invoke({"input": "find open billing tickets"})
   ```
   `max_iterations`/`max_execution_time` are `AgentExecutor`'s equivalent of
   the hard iteration cap and timeout described in
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md) — set
   both explicitly; the defaults are more permissive than most production
   use cases want.

3. **Move to LangGraph once the task needs cycles, branching, persistence,
   or a human checkpoint.** Model the agent as a typed state object and a
   graph of nodes:
   ```python
   from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
   from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
   from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver

   class TicketState(TypedDict):
       ticket_id: str
       category: str
       draft_reply: str
       approved: bool

   def triage(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
       category = classify(state["ticket_id"])
       return {**state, "category": category}

   def draft(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
       reply = generate_draft(state["ticket_id"], state["category"])
       return {**state, "draft_reply": reply}

   def route_after_triage(state: TicketState) -> str:
       return "escalate" if state["category"] == "legal" else "draft"

   graph = StateGraph(TicketState)
   graph.add_node("triage", triage)
   graph.add_node("draft", draft)
   graph.add_node("escalate", lambda s: {**s, "approved": False})
   graph.set_entry_point("triage")
   graph.add_conditional_edges("triage", route_after_triage, {"draft": "draft", "escalate": "escalate"})
   graph.add_edge("draft", END)
   graph.add_edge("escalate", END)

   app = graph.compile(checkpointer=MemorySaver())
   ```
   This is the finite-state/graph pattern from
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md)
   expressed directly in LangGraph's API — nodes are states, edges (plain
   or conditional) are transitions.

4. **Add a human-in-the-loop interrupt at the highest-leverage node**, not
   everywhere, using `interrupt_before`/`interrupt_after` at compile time:
   ```python
   app = graph.compile(
       checkpointer=MemorySaver(),
       interrupt_before=["send_reply"],   # pause here every run until resumed
   )

   config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "ticket-8842"}}
   app.invoke(initial_state, config=config)   # runs up to send_reply, then pauses

   # ... a human reviews the checkpointed state out-of-band ...

   app.invoke(None, config=config)            # resumes from the paused checkpoint
   ```
   Passing `None` as input on resume is deliberate — it tells LangGraph to
   continue from the last checkpoint rather than starting a new run; passing
   a real input restarts the thread instead.

   > **Warning:** compiling a graph that reaches an irreversible-write node
   > (sending a message, executing a payment, deleting a resource) with no
   > `interrupt_before` on that node means it will execute automatically the
   > first time the graph reaches it, with no human checkpoint at all. Do
   > not rely on prompt wording alone to prevent an irreversible action —
   > gate it structurally with `interrupt_before`, the same discipline
   > described for any irreversible tool in
   > [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

5. **Choose a checkpointer backend deliberately for the deployment target.**
   `MemorySaver` is fine for local development and tests; anything
   long-running or multi-process needs a durable checkpointer:
   ```python
   from langgraph.checkpoint.sqlite import SqliteSaver
   # or, for production multi-instance deployments:
   # from langgraph.checkpoint.postgres import PostgresSaver

   with SqliteSaver.from_conn_string("checkpoints.db") as checkpointer:
       app = graph.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
   ```
   Every checkpointed run needs a stable `thread_id` in `config`; reusing a
   `thread_id` across unrelated tasks corrupts that thread's history.

6. **Bound cycles explicitly.** A conditional edge that can route back to an
   earlier node (e.g. `draft -> review -> draft` on rejection) needs an
   explicit counter in state and a hard cap, or a rejection loop can run
   indefinitely:
   ```python
   def route_after_review(state: TicketState) -> str:
       if state.get("revision_count", 0) >= 3:
           return "escalate"          # fail closed after 3 rejected drafts
       return "draft" if not state["approved"] else END
   ```

7. **Stream intermediate state for observability**, rather than only
   consuming the final result — both `AgentExecutor` and LangGraph support
   streaming (`.stream()`/`.astream()`), which surfaces each tool call and
   state transition as it happens, matching the "instrument every loop
   iteration" guidance in
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

8. **Compose multiple LangGraph graphs for multi-agent topologies** rather
   than hand-rolling a supervisor loop, when the task genuinely needs
   multiple specialized roles — a compiled graph can itself be a node in a
   parent graph. Confirm this split is justified per
   [multi-agent-orchestration](../multi-agent-orchestration/SKILL.md) before
   introducing it; LangGraph makes multi-agent easy to wire, not automatically
   the right call.

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LangChain and LangGraph Agent Orchestration

Purpose

When to use

Deciding whether a task needs plain LangChain chain composition (a fixed pipeline, no branching), AgentExecutor (a single ReAct-style tool-calling loop), or a LangGraph graph (multi-step, branching, cyclical, or needing persistence/human approval).
Building an agent whose steps depend on prior results in ways a single linear chain can't express — retries, conditional branches, or loops back to an earlier step.
Adding durable state to a LangChain/LangGraph agent so a long-running or multi-session workflow survives a process restart or crash mid-run.
Adding a human-in-the-loop approval checkpoint before an irreversible tool call in an existing LangGraph graph.
An agent built with AgentExecutor loses context, re-does completed work, or can't be paused/resumed, and the team is evaluating migrating it to LangGraph.
Debugging a LangGraph graph that loops indefinitely, gets stuck at an interrupt, or fails to restore state correctly from a checkpoint.

Prerequisites & environment

Python (LangChain/LangGraph's primary, most mature ecosystem) or JavaScript/TypeScript (langchain/langgraph npm packages, closely mirroring the Python API but with some feature lag) — pick one and check current package versions before starting, since both projects have had breaking changes across major versions (notably the LangChain 0.1 → 0.2/0.3 restructuring that split core, community, and partner packages).
An LLM provider integration package (e.g. langchain-anthropic, langchain-openai) installed separately from langchain-core — recent LangChain versions moved provider-specific code out of the core package.
For LangGraph persistence: a checkpointer backend — the in-memory MemorySaver for local development/testing only (state is lost on process exit), or a durable checkpointer (SQLite, Postgres, or a managed backend) for anything that must survive a restart.
Tool definitions the agent will call, either as plain Python functions decorated with LangChain's @tool, or proxied from an MCP server via an MCP-to-LangChain adapter — confirm which integration path your LangChain version currently supports before assuming API shape.
Clarity on which parts of the workflow are genuinely cyclical/branching (justifying LangGraph) versus a fixed sequence (better served by a plain LCEL chain) — reach for LangGraph only once a chain's limitations are concrete, mirroring the "justify the split" discipline in agent-architecture-design.

Step-by-step guidance

Start with the simplest abstraction that fits the task's shape. A fixed sequence (retrieve → prompt → parse) is a plain LCEL chain:

from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic

prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
    ("system", "Summarize the following ticket in one sentence."),
    ("human", "{ticket_text}"),
])
model = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5", temperature=0)
chain = prompt | model | StrOutputParser()
result = chain.invoke({"ticket_text": ticket_body})

No loop, no tool calls, no branching — a chain is the right tool and adding AgentExecutor or LangGraph here is unjustified complexity.

Use AgentExecutor only for a single, bounded ReAct-style loop with no need for persistence, human interrupts, or branching beyond tool-call/no-tool-call:

from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_tool_calling_agent
from langchain_core.tools import tool

@tool
def search_tickets(query: str) -> str:
    """Search support tickets by keyword. Returns matching ticket IDs."""
    return ticketing_backend.search(query)

agent = create_tool_calling_agent(model, [search_tickets], prompt)
executor = AgentExecutor(
    agent=agent, tools=[search_tickets],
    max_iterations=8, max_execution_time=60,   # bound the loop explicitly
)
result = executor.invoke({"input": "find open billing tickets"})

Move to LangGraph once the task needs cycles, branching, persistence, or a human checkpoint. Model the agent as a typed state object and a graph of nodes:

from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver

class TicketState(TypedDict):
    ticket_id: str
    category: str
    draft_reply: str
    approved: bool

def triage(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
    category = classify(state["ticket_id"])
    return {**state, "category": category}

def draft(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
    reply = generate_draft(state["ticket_id"], state["category"])
    return {**state, "draft_reply": reply}

def route_after_triage(state: TicketState) -> str:
    return "escalate" if state["category"] == "legal" else "draft"

graph = StateGraph(TicketState)
graph.add_node("triage", triage)
graph.add_node("draft", draft)
graph.add_node("escalate", lambda s: {**s, "approved": False})
graph.set_entry_point("triage")
graph.add_conditional_edges("triage", route_after_triage, {"draft": "draft", "escalate": "escalate"})
graph.add_edge("draft", END)
graph.add_edge("escalate", END)

app = graph.compile(checkpointer=MemorySaver())

This is the finite-state/graph pattern from agent-architecture-design expressed directly in LangGraph's API — nodes are states, edges (plain or conditional) are transitions.

Add a human-in-the-loop interrupt at the highest-leverage node, not everywhere, using interrupt_before/interrupt_after at compile time:
```
app = graph.compile(
    checkpointer=MemorySaver(),
    interrupt_before=["send_reply"],   # pause here every run until resumed
)

config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "ticket-8842"}}
app.invoke(initial_state, config=config)   # runs up to send_reply, then pauses

# ... a human reviews the checkpointed state out-of-band ...

app.invoke(None, config=config)            # resumes from the paused checkpoint
```
Passing None as input on resume is deliberate — it tells LangGraph to continue from the last checkpoint rather than starting a new run; passing a real input restarts the thread instead.

Warning: compiling a graph that reaches an irreversible-write node (sending a message, executing a payment, deleting a resource) with no interrupt_before on that node means it will execute automatically the first time the graph reaches it, with no human checkpoint at all. Do not rely on prompt wording alone to prevent an irreversible action — gate it structurally with interrupt_before, the same discipline described for any irreversible tool in agent-architecture-design.
Choose a checkpointer backend deliberately for the deployment target. MemorySaver is fine for local development and tests; anything long-running or multi-process needs a durable checkpointer:
```
from langgraph.checkpoint.sqlite import SqliteSaver
# or, for production multi-instance deployments:
# from langgraph.checkpoint.postgres import PostgresSaver

with SqliteSaver.from_conn_string("checkpoints.db") as checkpointer:
    app = graph.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
```
Every checkpointed run needs a stable thread_id in config; reusing a thread_id across unrelated tasks corrupts that thread's history.

def route_after_review(state: TicketState) -> str:
    if state.get("revision_count", 0) >= 3:
        return "escalate"          # fail closed after 3 rejected drafts
    return "draft" if not state["approved"] else END

Stream intermediate state for observability, rather than only consuming the final result — both AgentExecutor and LangGraph support streaming (.stream()/.astream()), which surfaces each tool call and state transition as it happens, matching the "instrument every loop iteration" guidance in agent-architecture-design.
Compose multiple LangGraph graphs for multi-agent topologies rather than hand-rolling a supervisor loop, when the task genuinely needs multiple specialized roles — a compiled graph can itself be a node in a parent graph. Confirm this split is justified per multi-agent-orchestration before introducing it; LangGraph makes multi-agent easy to wire, not automatically the right call.

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  Guides building LLM applications with LangChain's chain/agent abstractions
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---
name: langchain-and-langgraph-agent-orchestration
description: >
  Guides building LLM applications with LangChain's chain/agent abstractions
  and, for stateful multi-step agents, LangGraph's graph-based orchestration
  (nodes, edges, cycles, checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop
  interrupts). Use when a user asks to "build this with LangChain," "use
  LangGraph for a stateful agent," "add persistence/checkpointing to a
  LangChain agent," "add a human approval step in a LangGraph graph," "my
  LangChain agent loses state between turns," or is deciding between
  LangChain's `AgentExecutor`, a LangGraph graph, and a hand-rolled control
  loop.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI"
metadata:
  domain: ai-agent
  maturity: stable
---

# LangChain and LangGraph Agent Orchestration

## Purpose

LangChain provides two things that are easy to conflate: a set of composable
building blocks (prompt templates, model wrappers, retrievers, output
parsers, chained via LangChain Expression Language / `Runnable`), and a
higher-level `AgentExecutor` that wraps those blocks into a single-loop,
tool-calling agent. LangGraph is a separate, lower-level runtime built by the
same project specifically for agents whose control flow is not a single
linear loop — it models the agent as an explicit graph of nodes and edges,
supports cycles (a node can route back to an earlier node), and adds two
capabilities `AgentExecutor` does not have out of the box: durable
checkpointed state (so a run can pause, crash, and resume from its last
checkpoint) and first-class human-in-the-loop interrupts (a graph can pause
at a named node until a human approves, edits, or rejects the pending
state). This skill covers choosing between plain LangChain composition,
`AgentExecutor`, and LangGraph, and operating LangGraph's persistence and
interrupt features correctly. It is a framework-specific complement to
[agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md), which
covers the underlying control-flow patterns (ReAct loop, plan-and-execute,
finite-state/graph) in a vendor-neutral way — LangGraph is one concrete
runtime that implements the finite-state/graph pattern described there. For
tool access, LangChain/LangGraph agents can call tools defined directly in
Python or exposed via an MCP server; see
[mcp-server-development](../mcp-server-development/SKILL.md) for building
the tool-serving side, which this skill treats as an external dependency
rather than repeating.

## When to use

- Deciding whether a task needs plain LangChain chain composition (a fixed
  pipeline, no branching), `AgentExecutor` (a single ReAct-style tool-calling
  loop), or a LangGraph graph (multi-step, branching, cyclical, or needing
  persistence/human approval).
- Building an agent whose steps depend on prior results in ways a single
  linear chain can't express — retries, conditional branches, or loops back
  to an earlier step.
- Adding durable state to a LangChain/LangGraph agent so a long-running or
  multi-session workflow survives a process restart or crash mid-run.
- Adding a human-in-the-loop approval checkpoint before an irreversible tool
  call in an existing LangGraph graph.
- An agent built with `AgentExecutor` loses context, re-does completed work,
  or can't be paused/resumed, and the team is evaluating migrating it to
  LangGraph.
- Debugging a LangGraph graph that loops indefinitely, gets stuck at an
  interrupt, or fails to restore state correctly from a checkpoint.

## Prerequisites & environment

- Python (LangChain/LangGraph's primary, most mature ecosystem) or
  JavaScript/TypeScript (`langchain`/`langgraph` npm packages, closely
  mirroring the Python API but with some feature lag) — pick one and check
  current package versions before starting, since both projects have had
  breaking changes across major versions (notably the LangChain 0.1 → 0.2/0.3
  restructuring that split core, community, and partner packages).
- An LLM provider integration package (e.g. `langchain-anthropic`,
  `langchain-openai`) installed separately from `langchain-core` — recent
  LangChain versions moved provider-specific code out of the core package.
- For LangGraph persistence: a checkpointer backend — the in-memory
  `MemorySaver` for local development/testing only (state is lost on
  process exit), or a durable checkpointer (SQLite, Postgres, or a
  managed backend) for anything that must survive a restart.
- Tool definitions the agent will call, either as plain Python functions
  decorated with LangChain's `@tool`, or proxied from an MCP server via an
  MCP-to-LangChain adapter — confirm which integration path your LangChain
  version currently supports before assuming API shape.
- Clarity on which parts of the workflow are genuinely cyclical/branching
  (justifying LangGraph) versus a fixed sequence (better served by a plain
  LCEL chain) — reach for LangGraph only once a chain's limitations are
  concrete, mirroring the "justify the split" discipline in
  [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

## Step-by-step guidance

1. **Start with the simplest abstraction that fits the task's shape.** A
   fixed sequence (retrieve → prompt → parse) is a plain LCEL chain:
   ```python
   from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
   from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
   from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic

   prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
       ("system", "Summarize the following ticket in one sentence."),
       ("human", "{ticket_text}"),
   ])
   model = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5", temperature=0)
   chain = prompt | model | StrOutputParser()
   result = chain.invoke({"ticket_text": ticket_body})
   ```
   No loop, no tool calls, no branching — a chain is the right tool and
   adding `AgentExecutor` or LangGraph here is unjustified complexity.

2. **Use `AgentExecutor` only for a single, bounded ReAct-style loop** with
   no need for persistence, human interrupts, or branching beyond
   tool-call/no-tool-call:
   ```python
   from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, create_tool_calling_agent
   from langchain_core.tools import tool

   @tool
   def search_tickets(query: str) -> str:
       """Search support tickets by keyword. Returns matching ticket IDs."""
       return ticketing_backend.search(query)

   agent = create_tool_calling_agent(model, [search_tickets], prompt)
   executor = AgentExecutor(
       agent=agent, tools=[search_tickets],
       max_iterations=8, max_execution_time=60,   # bound the loop explicitly
   )
   result = executor.invoke({"input": "find open billing tickets"})
   ```
   `max_iterations`/`max_execution_time` are `AgentExecutor`'s equivalent of
   the hard iteration cap and timeout described in
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md) — set
   both explicitly; the defaults are more permissive than most production
   use cases want.

3. **Move to LangGraph once the task needs cycles, branching, persistence,
   or a human checkpoint.** Model the agent as a typed state object and a
   graph of nodes:
   ```python
   from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
   from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
   from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver

   class TicketState(TypedDict):
       ticket_id: str
       category: str
       draft_reply: str
       approved: bool

   def triage(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
       category = classify(state["ticket_id"])
       return {**state, "category": category}

   def draft(state: TicketState) -> TicketState:
       reply = generate_draft(state["ticket_id"], state["category"])
       return {**state, "draft_reply": reply}

   def route_after_triage(state: TicketState) -> str:
       return "escalate" if state["category"] == "legal" else "draft"

   graph = StateGraph(TicketState)
   graph.add_node("triage", triage)
   graph.add_node("draft", draft)
   graph.add_node("escalate", lambda s: {**s, "approved": False})
   graph.set_entry_point("triage")
   graph.add_conditional_edges("triage", route_after_triage, {"draft": "draft", "escalate": "escalate"})
   graph.add_edge("draft", END)
   graph.add_edge("escalate", END)

   app = graph.compile(checkpointer=MemorySaver())
   ```
   This is the finite-state/graph pattern from
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md)
   expressed directly in LangGraph's API — nodes are states, edges (plain
   or conditional) are transitions.

4. **Add a human-in-the-loop interrupt at the highest-leverage node**, not
   everywhere, using `interrupt_before`/`interrupt_after` at compile time:
   ```python
   app = graph.compile(
       checkpointer=MemorySaver(),
       interrupt_before=["send_reply"],   # pause here every run until resumed
   )

   config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "ticket-8842"}}
   app.invoke(initial_state, config=config)   # runs up to send_reply, then pauses

   # ... a human reviews the checkpointed state out-of-band ...

   app.invoke(None, config=config)            # resumes from the paused checkpoint
   ```
   Passing `None` as input on resume is deliberate — it tells LangGraph to
   continue from the last checkpoint rather than starting a new run; passing
   a real input restarts the thread instead.

   > **Warning:** compiling a graph that reaches an irreversible-write node
   > (sending a message, executing a payment, deleting a resource) with no
   > `interrupt_before` on that node means it will execute automatically the
   > first time the graph reaches it, with no human checkpoint at all. Do
   > not rely on prompt wording alone to prevent an irreversible action —
   > gate it structurally with `interrupt_before`, the same discipline
   > described for any irreversible tool in
   > [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

5. **Choose a checkpointer backend deliberately for the deployment target.**
   `MemorySaver` is fine for local development and tests; anything
   long-running or multi-process needs a durable checkpointer:
   ```python
   from langgraph.checkpoint.sqlite import SqliteSaver
   # or, for production multi-instance deployments:
   # from langgraph.checkpoint.postgres import PostgresSaver

   with SqliteSaver.from_conn_string("checkpoints.db") as checkpointer:
       app = graph.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
   ```
   Every checkpointed run needs a stable `thread_id` in `config`; reusing a
   `thread_id` across unrelated tasks corrupts that thread's history.

6. **Bound cycles explicitly.** A conditional edge that can route back to an
   earlier node (e.g. `draft -> review -> draft` on rejection) needs an
   explicit counter in state and a hard cap, or a rejection loop can run
   indefinitely:
   ```python
   def route_after_review(state: TicketState) -> str:
       if state.get("revision_count", 0) >= 3:
           return "escalate"          # fail closed after 3 rejected drafts
       return "draft" if not state["approved"] else END
   ```

7. **Stream intermediate state for observability**, rather than only
   consuming the final result — both `AgentExecutor` and LangGraph support
   streaming (`.stream()`/`.astream()`), which surfaces each tool call and
   state transition as it happens, matching the "instrument every loop
   iteration" guidance in
   [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md).

8. **Compose multiple LangGraph graphs for multi-agent topologies** rather
   than hand-rolling a supervisor loop, when the task genuinely needs
   multiple specialized roles — a compiled graph can itself be a node in a
   parent graph. Confirm this split is justified per
   [multi-agent-orchestration](../multi-agent-orchestration/SKILL.md) before
   introducing it; LangGraph makes multi-agent easy to wire, not automatically
   the right call.

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