Official agent skill

Langchain Agents

by langchain-ai in langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks

Build LangChain agents with modern patterns. An agent skill from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Langchain Agents

skills CLI
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks --skill langchain-agents -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks langchain-agents --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/benchmarks/langchain_basic .claude/skills/langchain-agents && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
langchain-agents
GitHub stars
118
Token cost
~2.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
234 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build LangChain agents with modern patterns. An agent skill from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks.

  • Tasks that involve Building AI agents
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Langchain Agents is an agent skill from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Build LangChain agents with modern patterns. Covers createagent, LangGraph, and context management.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Building AI agents. It works with LangChain, LangGraph and React. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Building AI agents

Example prompts

  • “/langchain-agents”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9195f8c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.langchain.com
    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Langchain Agents loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 29 tokens; SKILL.md has 234 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~29
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks at commit 9195f8c, republished under its MIT licence (© langchain-ai). 234 words, ~2,519 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/langchain-agents/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
langchain-agents
description
Build LangChain agents with modern patterns. Covers create_agent, LangGraph, and context management.
<oneliner>
Build production-ready agents with LangGraph, from basic primitives to advanced context management.
</oneliner>

<quick_start> IMPORTANT: Use modern abstractions. Older helpers like create_sql_agent, create_tool_calling_agent, create_react_agent, etc. are outdated.

Simple tool-calling agent? → create_agent

python
from langchain.agents import create_agent
graph = create_agent(model="anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-5", tools=[search], system_prompt="...")

Use this for: Basic ReAct loops, tool-calling agents, simple Q&A bots.

Need planning + filesystem + subagents? → create_deep_agent

python
from deepagents import create_deep_agent
agent = create_deep_agent(model=model, tools=tools, backend=FilesystemBackend())

Use this for: Research agents, complex workflows, multi-step planning.

Custom control flow / multi-agent / advanced context? → LangGraph (see below) Use this for: Custom routing logic, supervisor patterns, specialized state management, non-standard workflows.

Start simple: Build with basic ReAct loops first. Only add complexity when your use case requires it. </quick_start>

<create_agent>

python
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic
from langchain.agents import create_agent
from langchain_core.tools import tool

@tool
def my_tool(query: str) -> str:
    """Tool description that the model sees."""
    return perform_operation(query)

model = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5")
agent = create_agent(
    model=model,
    tools=[my_tool],
    system_prompt="Your agent behavior and guidelines."
)

result = agent.invoke({"messages": [("user", "Your question")]})

Pattern applies to: SQL agents, search agents, Q&A bots, tool-calling workflows.

Example: Calculator Agent
python
@tool
def calculate(expression: str) -> str:
    """Evaluate a mathematical expression safely."""
    try:
        allowed = set('0123456789+-*/(). ')
        if not all(c in allowed for c in expression):
            return "Error: Invalid characters"
        return str(eval(expression))
    except Exception as e:
        return f"Error: {e}"

@tool
def convert_units(value: float, from_unit: str, to_unit: str) -> str:
    """Convert between common units."""
    conversions = {
        ("km", "miles"): 0.621371,
        ("miles", "km"): 1.60934,
    }
    factor = conversions.get((from_unit, to_unit), None)
    return f"{value * factor:.2f} {to_unit}" if factor else "Conversion not supported"

agent = create_agent(
    model=ChatAnthropic(model="claude-sonnet-4-5"),
    tools=[calculate, convert_units],
    system_prompt="You are a helpful calculator assistant."
)
Quick Reference
python
from langchain.agents import create_agent
agent = create_agent(model=model, tools=[my_tool], system_prompt="...")
result = agent.invoke({"messages": [("user", "question")]})

</create_agent>

<langgraph>
### Basic Agent from Scratch
python
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, START, END
from langgraph.prebuilt import ToolNode
from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
from langgraph.graph.message import add_messages

class State(TypedDict):
    messages: Annotated[list, add_messages]

tools = [search_tool]
tool_node = ToolNode(tools)

def agent(state: State):
    return {"messages": [model.bind_tools(tools).invoke(state["messages"])]}

def route(state: State):
    return "tools" if state["messages"][-1].tool_calls else END

workflow = StateGraph(State)
workflow.add_node("agent", agent)
workflow.add_node("tools", tool_node)
workflow.add_edge(START, "agent")
workflow.add_conditional_edges("agent", route)
workflow.add_edge("tools", "agent")
app = workflow.compile()

The loop: Agent → tools → agent → END

ToolMessages: Critical Detail

When implementing custom tool execution, you must create a ToolMessage for each tool call:

python
from langchain_core.messages import ToolMessage

def custom_tool_node(state: State) -> dict:
    last_message = state["messages"][-1]
    tool_messages = []

    for tool_call in last_message.tool_calls:
        result = execute_tool(tool_call["name"], tool_call["args"])
        # CRITICAL: tool_call_id must match!
        tool_messages.append(ToolMessage(
            content=str(result),
            tool_call_id=tool_call["id"]
        ))

    return {"messages": tool_messages}
Commands: Routing with Updates
python
from langgraph.types import Command
from typing import Literal

def router(state: State) -> Command[Literal["research", "write", END]]:
    if needs_more_context(state):
        return Command(update={"notes": "Starting research"}, goto="research")
    return Command(goto=END)

# Human-in-loop
def ask_user(state: State) -> Command:
    response = interrupt("Please clarify:")
    return Command(update={"messages": [HumanMessage(content=response)]}, goto="continue")
</langgraph>

<context_management>

Strategy 1: Subagent Delegation

Pattern: Offload work to subagents, return only summaries.

python
researcher_subgraph = build_researcher_graph().compile()

def main_agent(state: State) -> Command:
    if needs_research(state["messages"][-1]):
        result = researcher_subgraph.invoke({"query": extract_query(state)})
        return Command(
            update={"context": state["context"] + f"\n{result['summary']}"},
            goto="respond"
        )
    return Command(goto="respond")
Strategy 2: Progressive Message Trimming

Pattern: Remove old messages but preserve system messages and recent context.

python
def trim_messages(messages: list, max_messages: int = 20) -> list:
    system_msgs = [m for m in messages if isinstance(m, SystemMessage)]
    conversation = [m for m in messages if not isinstance(m, SystemMessage)]
    return system_msgs + conversation[-max_messages:]

def agent_with_trimming(state: State) -> dict:
    trimmed = trim_messages(state["messages"], max_messages=15)
    return {"messages": [model.invoke(trimmed)]}
Strategy 3: Compression with Summarization

Pattern: Summarize old context, keep recent messages raw.

python
def compress_history(state: State) -> dict:
    messages = state["messages"]
    if len(messages) > 30:
        old, recent = messages[:-10], messages[-10:]
        summary = model.invoke([HumanMessage(content=f"Summarize:\n{format_messages(old)}")])
        return {"messages": [SystemMessage(content=f"Previous:\n{summary.content}")] + recent}
    return {"messages": messages}

</context_management>

<multi_agent>

Supervisor Pattern
python
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, START, END
from langgraph.types import Command
from typing import TypedDict, Annotated, Literal
from langgraph.graph.message import add_messages

class AgentState(TypedDict):
    messages: Annotated[list, add_messages]
    next_agent: str

def supervisor(state: AgentState) -> Command[Literal["billing", "technical", END]]:
    last_msg = state["messages"][-1].content.lower()
    if "invoice" in last_msg or "payment" in last_msg:
        return Command(goto="billing")
    elif "error" in last_msg or "not working" in last_msg:
        return Command(goto="technical")
    return Command(goto=END)

def billing_agent(state: AgentState) -> dict:
    return {"messages": [billing_model.invoke(state["messages"])]}

def technical_agent(state: AgentState) -> dict:
    return {"messages": [tech_model.invoke(state["messages"])]}

workflow = StateGraph(AgentState)
workflow.add_node("supervisor", supervisor)
workflow.add_node("billing", billing_agent)
workflow.add_node("technical", technical_agent)
workflow.add_edge(START, "supervisor")
workflow.add_edge("billing", END)
workflow.add_edge("technical", END)
app = workflow.compile()

</multi_agent>

<advanced>
### Persistence with Checkpointer + Store
python
from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver
from langgraph.store.memory import InMemoryStore

checkpointer = MemorySaver()  # Thread-level state
store = InMemoryStore()       # Cross-thread memory

app = graph.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer, store=store)

app.invoke(
    {"messages": [HumanMessage("Hello")]},
    config={"configurable": {"thread_id": "user-123"}}
)
Structured Output
python
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

class ResearchOutput(BaseModel):
    summary: str = Field(description="3-sentence summary")
    sources: list[str] = Field(description="Source URLs")
    confidence: float = Field(description="0-1 confidence score")

model_with_structure = model.with_structured_output(ResearchOutput)

def structured_research(state: State) -> dict:
    result = model_with_structure.invoke(state["messages"])
    return {"research": result.model_dump()}
DeepAgents: Batteries Included
python
from deepagents import create_deep_agent
from deepagents.backends import CompositeBackend, FilesystemBackend, StoreBackend

backend = CompositeBackend({
    "/workspace/": FilesystemBackend("./workspace"),
    "/memories/": StoreBackend(store)
})

agent = create_deep_agent(
    model=model,
    tools=[search, scrape],
    subagents=[researcher_agent, analyst_agent],
    backend=backend
)

DeepAgents provides: Filesystem (auto context files), Planning (task breakdown), Subagents (delegation), Memory (persistence). </advanced>

<resources>
- [LangGraph Docs](https://docs.langchain.com/langgraph)
- [create_agent](https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langchain/agents)
- [DeepAgents](https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/overview)
- [LangGraph 101 Multi-Agent](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph-101/blob/main/notebooks/LG201/multi_agent.ipynb)
- [Deep Research Example](https://github.com/langchain-samples/deep_research_101)
</resources>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/benchmarks/langchain_basic of langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9195f8c

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Questions about Langchain Agents

What does Langchain Agents do?

Build LangChain agents with modern patterns. An agent skill from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks. Langchain Agents is an agent skill from langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Build LangChain agents with modern patterns.

When should I use Langchain Agents?

Langchain Agents fits situations like: tasks that involve Building AI agents.

How do I install Langchain Agents in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks --skill langchain-agents -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/benchmarks/langchain_basic in langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks) into .claude/skills/langchain-agents in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Langchain Agents in Codex?

Run `npx skills add langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks --skill langchain-agents -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/benchmarks/langchain_basic in langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks) into .agents/skills/langchain-agents in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Langchain Agents in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks --skill langchain-agents -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/langchain-agents, .gemini/skills/langchain-agents, .github/skills/langchain-agents and .opencode/skills/langchain-agents in your project.

What does Langchain Agents need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Langchain Agents is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Langchain Agents access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.langchain.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Langchain Agents safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Langchain Agents use?

Langchain Agents is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Langchain Agents use?

About 2.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 10k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Langchain Agents?

langchain-ai (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks, which has 118 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.

Source: langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.