LangChain
LangChain is an open-source framework for building applications and agents powered by large language models, with tools for chaining prompts, memory, and external data sources.
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About LangChain
What it is
LangChain is a framework for building applications on top of language models. It provides pieces for prompting, chaining calls together, connecting to documents and databases, giving a model tools to use and keeping conversational state, along with tracing to see what happened on a run.
Why it's different
It was the default way to build these applications, and its reach is the reason to use it: integrations exist for almost every model, database and vector store, so you rarely write the connector yourself. Its reputation for churn and heavy abstraction is deserved, and many teams have found a direct call to a model API simpler to reason about and to debug. The observability tooling is frequently what people stay for after replacing the rest of it.
How people use it
Retrieval systems over your own documents. Applications that need to swap between model providers. Agents that call tools and APIs. Prototyping quickly with pieces that already exist. Start with the plain API and reach for the framework when you hit something it genuinely solves, rather than beginning with the abstraction.
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