langchain

Guidance for LangChain, a software framework for building applications that use language models. It provides common ways to connect models with tools such as vector databases and memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build language-model applications, agents, and retrieval-augmented generation systems that search stored information before answering.
Why use it?
It helps developers combine language-model steps into larger applications instead of writing every connection from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/langchain
Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill langchain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 711 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 $0.00711
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00071

Measured yesterday against content hash 921c327ba7c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

langchain 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/lcel.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/langchain/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LangChain Skill

Framework for developing applications powered by language models.

Ecosystem Graph Preview

graph LR
  langchain["langchain"]:::core
  classDef core fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px;
  langchain -- "alternative to" --> llamaindex
  langchain -- "integrates with" --> openai
  langchain -- "integrates with" --> pinecone
  llamaindex -- "alternative to" --> langchain
  ollama -- "integrates with" --> langchain
  vllm -- "integrates with" --> langchain
  • llamaindex (Score: 0.93) Why: Direct relationship, Both are AI, Shared ecosystem (ai), Can deploy to any, Similar network profile
  • ollama (Score: 0.83) Why: Direct relationship, Both are AI, Shared ecosystem (ai), Similar network profile
  • vllm (Score: 0.82) Why: Direct relationship, Both are AI, Shared ecosystem (ai), Similar network profile

Quick Start

LangChain provides standard interfaces for LLMs, Vector Stores, and Memory, allowing you to chain them together to build complex Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

pip install langchain langchain-openai

Production Patterns

LCEL (LangChain Expression Language)

Avoid using massive legacy chain classes (like ConversationalRetrievalChain). Migrate entirely to LCEL, which uses Python pipe operators (|) to compose prompts, models, and output parsers declaratively. It automatically handles streaming and async logic.

Architecture & Scaling

Agents vs Chains

A Chain is a deterministic sequence of operations. An Agent utilizes an LLM's reasoning to dynamically determine which Tools to execute and in what order to solve a complex goal.

Error Recovery

LLMs frequently output invalid JSON when asked for structured data. Use LangChain's OutputFixingParser which automatically catches parsing errors and feeds the broken output back to the LLM with instructions to fix it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 921c327ba7c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

langchain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 711 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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