context

A guide to the information an AI agent can use alongside the messages in a run. It describes temporary settings, changing conversation data, and information shared between conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pass runtime details such as user data or credentials, track facts during a conversation, and share stored information across conversations.
Why use it?
It helps you provide an agent with the inputs and remembered facts it needs to produce the right result and use tools correctly.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/langchain-ai/langgraphjs/context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraphjs
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,472 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02472
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01236
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00247

Measured yesterday against content hash f39874ccac2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/docs/agents/context.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Agents often require more than a list of messages to function effectively. They need context.

Context includes any data outside the message list that can shape agent behavior or tool execution. This can be:

  • Information passed at runtime, like a user_id or API credentials.
  • Internal state updated during a multi-step reasoning process.
  • Persistent memory or facts from previous interactions.

LangGraph provides three primary ways to supply context:

Type Description Mutable? Lifetime
Config data passed at the start of a run per run
State dynamic data that can change during execution per run or conversation
Long-term Memory (Store) data that can be shared between conversations across conversations

You can use context to:

  • Adjust the system prompt the model sees
  • Feed tools with necessary inputs
  • Track facts during an ongoing conversation

Providing Runtime Context

Use this when you need to inject data into an agent at runtime.

Config (static context)

Config is for immutable data like user metadata or API keys. Use when you have values that don't change mid-run.

Specify configuration using a key called "configurable" which is reserved for this purpose:

await agent.invoke(
  { messages: "hi!" },
  // highlight-next-line
  { configurable: { userId: "user_123" } }
)

State (mutable context)

State acts as short-term memory during a run. It holds dynamic data that can evolve during execution, such as values derived from tools or LLM outputs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 330 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f39874ccac2d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context is an agent published in the GitHub repository langchain-ai/langgraphjs (3,242 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,472 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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