LangChain/LangGraph Agent Development Expert

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Instructions

Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.

Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.

Provide actionable steps and verification.

If detailed examples are required, open

resources/implementation-playbook.md

.

Context

Build sophisticated AI agent system for: $ARGUMENTS

Core Requirements

Use latest LangChain 0.1+ and LangGraph APIs

Implement async patterns throughout

Include comprehensive error handling and fallbacks

Integrate LangSmith for observability

Design for scalability and production deployment

Implement security best practices

Optimize for cost efficiency

Essential Architecture

LangGraph State Management

from

langgraph

.

graph

import

StateGraph

,

MessagesState

,

START

,

END

from

langgraph

.

prebuilt

import

create_react_agent

from

langchain_anthropic

import

ChatAnthropic

class

AgentState

(

TypedDict

)

:

messages

:

Annotated

[

list

,

"conversation history"

]

context

:

Annotated

[

dict

,

"retrieved context"

]

Model & Embeddings

Primary LLM

Claude Sonnet 4.5 (

claude-sonnet-4-5

)

Embeddings

Voyage AI (

voyage-3-large

) - officially recommended by Anthropic for Claude

Specialized

:

voyage-code-3

(code),

voyage-finance-2

(finance),

voyage-law-2

(legal)

Agent Types

ReAct Agents

Multi-step reasoning with tool usage

Use

create_react_agent(llm, tools, state_modifier)

Best for general-purpose tasks

Plan-and-Execute

Complex tasks requiring upfront planning

Separate planning and execution nodes

Track progress through state

Multi-Agent Orchestration

Specialized agents with supervisor routing

Use

Command[Literal["agent1", "agent2", END]]

for routing

Supervisor decides next agent based on context

Memory Systems

Short-term

:

ConversationTokenBufferMemory

(token-based windowing)

Summarization

:

ConversationSummaryMemory

(compress long histories)

Entity Tracking

:

ConversationEntityMemory

(track people, places, facts)

Vector Memory

:

VectorStoreRetrieverMemory

with semantic search

Hybrid

Combine multiple memory types for comprehensive context RAG Pipeline from langchain_voyageai import VoyageAIEmbeddings from langchain_pinecone import PineconeVectorStore

Setup embeddings (voyage-3-large recommended for Claude)

embeddings

VoyageAIEmbeddings ( model = "voyage-3-large" )

Vector store with hybrid search

vectorstore

PineconeVectorStore ( index = index , embedding = embeddings )

Retriever with reranking

base_retriever

vectorstore

.

as_retriever

(

search_type

=

"hybrid"

,

search_kwargs

=

{

"k"

:

20

,

"alpha"

:

0.5

}

)

Advanced RAG Patterns

HyDE

Generate hypothetical documents for better retrieval

RAG Fusion

Multiple query perspectives for comprehensive results

Reranking

Use Cohere Rerank for relevance optimization Tools & Integration from langchain_core . tools import StructuredTool from pydantic import BaseModel , Field class ToolInput ( BaseModel ) : query : str = Field ( description = "Query to process" ) async def tool_function ( query : str ) -

str :

Implement with error handling

try

:

result

=

await

external_call

(

query

)

return

result

except

Exception

as

e

:

return

f"Error:

{

str

(

e

)

}

"

tool

=

StructuredTool

.

from_function

(

func

=

tool_function

,

name

=

"tool_name"

,

description

=

"What this tool does"

,

args_schema

=

ToolInput

,

coroutine

=

tool_function

)

Production Deployment

FastAPI Server with Streaming

from

fastapi

import

FastAPI

from

fastapi

.

responses

import

StreamingResponse

@app

.

post

(

"/agent/invoke"

)

async

def

invoke_agent

(

request

:

AgentRequest

)

:

if

request

.

stream

:

return

StreamingResponse

(

stream_response

(

request

)

,

media_type

=

"text/event-stream"

)

return

await

agent

.

ainvoke

(

{

"messages"

:

[

.

.

.

]

}

)

Monitoring & Observability

LangSmith

Trace all agent executions

Prometheus

Track metrics (requests, latency, errors)

Structured Logging

Use

structlog

for consistent logs

Health Checks

Validate LLM, tools, memory, and external services

Optimization Strategies

Caching

Redis for response caching with TTL

Connection Pooling

Reuse vector DB connections

Load Balancing

Multiple agent workers with round-robin routing

Timeout Handling

Set timeouts on all async operations

Retry Logic

Exponential backoff with max retries Testing & Evaluation from langsmith . evaluation import evaluate

Run evaluation suite

eval_config

RunEvalConfig

(

evaluators

=

[

"qa"

,

"context_qa"

,

"cot_qa"

]

,

eval_llm

=

ChatAnthropic

(

model

=

"claude-sonnet-4-5"

)

)

results

=

await

evaluate

(

agent_function

,

data

=

dataset_name

,

evaluators

=

eval_config

)

Key Patterns

State Graph Pattern

builder

=

StateGraph

(

MessagesState

)

builder

.

add_node

(

"node1"

,

node1_func

)

builder

.

add_node

(

"node2"

,

node2_func

)

builder

.

add_edge

(

START

,

"node1"

)

builder

.

add_conditional_edges

(

"node1"

,

router

,

{

"a"

:

"node2"

,

"b"

:

END

}

)

builder

.

add_edge

(

"node2"

,

END

)

agent

=

builder

.

compile

(

checkpointer

=

checkpointer

)

Async Pattern

async

def

process_request

(

message

:

str

,

session_id

:

str

)

:

result

=

await

agent

.

ainvoke

(

{

"messages"

:

[

HumanMessage

(

content

=

message

)

]

}

,

config

=

{

"configurable"

:

{

"thread_id"

:

session_id

}

}

)

return

result

[

"messages"

]

[

-

1

]

.

content

Error Handling Pattern

from

tenacity

import

retry

,

stop_after_attempt

,

wait_exponential

@retry

(

stop

=

stop_after_attempt

(

3

)

,

wait

=

wait_exponential

(

multiplier

=

1

,

min

=

4

,

max

=

10

)

)

async

def

call_with_retry

(

)

:

try

:

return

await

llm

.

ainvoke

(

prompt

)

except

Exception

as

e

:

logger

.

error

(

f"LLM error:

{

e

}

"

)

raise

Implementation Checklist

Initialize LLM with Claude Sonnet 4.5

Setup Voyage AI embeddings (voyage-3-large)

Create tools with async support and error handling

Implement memory system (choose type based on use case)

Build state graph with LangGraph

Add LangSmith tracing

Implement streaming responses

Setup health checks and monitoring

Add caching layer (Redis)

Configure retry logic and timeouts

Write evaluation tests

Document API endpoints and usage

Best Practices

Always use async

:

ainvoke

,

astream

,

aget_relevant_documents

Handle errors gracefully

Try/except with fallbacks

Monitor everything

Trace, log, and metric all operations

Optimize costs

Cache responses, use token limits, compress memory

Secure secrets

Environment variables, never hardcode

Test thoroughly

Unit tests, integration tests, evaluation suites

Document extensively

API docs, architecture diagrams, runbooks

Version control state

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