langchain-chains

A guide for building fixed, multi-step data-processing pipelines with LangChain Expression Language, a way to connect language-model tasks in code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build chains that run tasks in sequence or in parallel and return structured or plain-text output.
Why use it?
It helps developers compose predictable steps such as prompting, summarising, extracting information, and formatting results without using an autonomous agent.

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/codeblockz/langchain-community-plugin/langchain-chains
Any agent
npx skills add Codeblockz/langchain-community-plugin --skill langchain-chains
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Codeblockz/langchain-community-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,427 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 $0.00049 $0.01427
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00143

Measured 2d ago against content hash 525de209ce4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

langchain-chains 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 2d ago.

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-chains/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LangChain Chains Builder

Quick Decision: Chains vs Agents

Use Chains when... Use Agents when...
Fixed, predictable workflow Dynamic decision-making needed
Single LLM call or fixed sequence Multiple iterations, tool selection
Processing/transforming data Interactive task completion
Summarization, extraction Complex multi-step reasoning
Low latency critical Flexibility more important

LCEL Quick Start

from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

# Define components
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_template(
    "Summarize this text in 3 bullet points:\n\n{text}"
)
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o")
parser = StrOutputParser()

# Compose with pipe operator
chain = prompt | llm | parser

# Invoke
result = chain.invoke({"text": "Long document here..."})

Core LCEL Patterns

RunnablePassthrough (Pass Input Through)

from langchain_core.runnables import RunnablePassthrough

# Pass original input alongside processed value
chain = {
    "context": retriever,
    "question": RunnablePassthrough(),  # Passes input unchanged
} | prompt | llm

RunnableParallel (Execute in Parallel)

from langchain_core.runnables import RunnableParallel

# Run multiple chains simultaneously
parallel = RunnableParallel(
    summary=summarize_chain,
    keywords=extract_keywords_chain,
    sentiment=sentiment_chain,
)

# All run in parallel, results combined
result = parallel.invoke({"text": "Document content..."})
# {"summary": "...", "keywords": [...], "sentiment": "positive"}

RunnableLambda (Custom Functions)

from langchain_core.runnables import RunnableLambda

def process_text(text: str) -> str:
    return text.strip().lower()

# Wrap function as runnable
chain = RunnableLambda(process_text) | prompt | llm

Branching (Conditional Routing)

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 217 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 525de209ce4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

langchain-chains is a skill published in the GitHub repository Codeblockz/langchain-community-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,427 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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