framework-selection

framework-selection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of framework-selection, MIT.

A decision guide for choosing the right layer of the LangChain ecosystem: LangChain, LangGraph, Deep Agents, or a combination. LangChain provides building blocks for models and tools, LangGraph manages workflows and state, and Deep Agents adds higher-level features such as planning and memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a LangChain, LangGraph, or Deep Agents project to choose the framework before writing agent code.
Why use it?
It prevents you from starting with the wrong framework layer and having to restructure the agent later. It also shows which other skills should be used next.

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/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share/framework-selection
Any agent
npx skills add joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share --skill framework-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,630 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3dd7830abba0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

framework-selection 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to framework-selection — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/framework-selection/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              Deep Agents                │  ← highest level: batteries included
│   (planning, memory, skills, files)     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│               LangGraph                 │  ← orchestration: graphs, loops, state
│    (nodes, edges, state, persistence)   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│               LangChain                 │  ← foundation: models, tools, chains
│      (models, tools, prompts, RAG)      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Picking a higher layer does not cut you off from lower layers — you can use LangGraph graphs inside Deep Agents, and LangChain primitives inside both.

This skill should be loaded at the top of any project before selecting other skills or writing agent code. The framework you choose dictates which other skills to invoke next.


Decision Guide

Answer these questions in order:

Question Yes → No →
Does the task require breaking work into sub-tasks, managing files across a long session, persistent memory, or loading on-demand skills? Deep Agents
Does the task require complex control flow — loops, dynamic branching, parallel workers, human-in-the-loop, or custom state? LangGraph
Is this a single-purpose agent that takes input, runs tools, and returns a result? LangChain (create_agent)
Is this a pure model call, chain, or retrieval pipeline with no agent loop? LangChain (LCEL / chain)

Framework Profiles

LangChain — Use when the task is focused and self-contained

Best for:

  • Single-purpose agents that use a fixed set of tools
  • RAG pipelines and document Q&A
  • Model calls, prompt templates, output parsing
  • Quick prototypes where agent logic is simple

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 4d ago First seen · 164 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 3dd7830abba0

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framework-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share (10 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,630 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to framework-selection, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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