Alpha Notice: These docs cover the v1-alpha release. Content is incomplete and subject to change.For the latest stable version, see the current LangGraph Python or LangGraph JavaScript docs.
Trusted by companies shaping the future of agents – including Klarna, Replit, Elastic, and more – LangGraph is a low-level orchestration framework for building, managing, and deploying long-running, stateful agents. LangGraph is very low-level, and focused entirely on agent orchestration. Before using LangGraph, it is recommended you familiarize yourself with some of the components used to build agents, starting with models and tools. We will commonly use LangChain components throughout the documentation, but you do not need to use LangChain to use LangGraph. If you are just getting started with agents, or want a higher level abstraction, it is recommended that you use LangChain’s agents to get started. LangGraph is focused on the underlying capabilties important for agent orchestration: durable execution, streaming, human-in-the-loop, etc. We expose two different APIs for consuming these capabilities: a Graph API and a functional API. We largely use the Graph API throughout the documentation, but feel free to use the functional API if you’d prefer. Install LangGraph: 
pip install -U langgraph
Then, create a simple hello world example. 
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, MessagesState, START, END

def mock_llm(state: MessagesState):
    return {"messages": [{"role": "ai", "content": "hello world"}]}

graph = StateGraph(MessagesState)
graph.add_node(mock_llm)
graph.add_edge(START, "mock_llm")
graph.add_edge("mock_llm", END)
graph = graph.compile()

graph.invoke({"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hi!"}]})

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Core benefits

LangGraph provides low-level supporting infrastructure for any long-running, stateful workflow or agent. LangGraph does not abstract prompts or architecture, and provides the following central benefits:
  • Durable execution: Build agents that persist through failures and can run for extended periods, automatically resuming from exactly where they left off.
  • Human-in-the-loop: Seamlessly incorporate human oversight by inspecting and modifying agent state at any point during execution.
  • Comprehensive memory: Create truly stateful agents with both short-term working memory for ongoing reasoning and long-term persistent memory across sessions.
  • Debugging with LangSmith: Gain deep visibility into complex agent behavior with visualization tools that trace execution paths, capture state transitions, and provide detailed runtime metrics.
  • Production-ready deployment: Deploy sophisticated agent systems confidently with scalable infrastructure designed to handle the unique challenges of stateful, long-running workflows.

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LangGraph’s ecosystem

While LangGraph can be used standalone, it also integrates seamlessly with any LangChain product, giving developers a full suite of tools for building agents. To improve your LLM application development, pair LangGraph with:
  • LangSmith — Helpful for agent evals and observability. Debug poor-performing LLM app runs, evaluate agent trajectories, gain visibility in production, and improve performance over time.
  • LangGraph Platform — Deploy and scale agents effortlessly with a purpose-built deployment platform for long running, stateful workflows. Discover, reuse, configure, and share agents across teams — and iterate quickly with visual prototyping in LangGraph Studio.
  • LangChain – Provides integrations and composable components to streamline LLM application development. Also contains agent abstractions built on top of LangGraph.

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Acknowledgements

LangGraph is inspired by Pregel and Apache Beam. The public interface draws inspiration from NetworkX. LangGraph is built by LangChain Inc, the creators of LangChain, but can be used without LangChain.