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Langchain

hoodini/langchain

Build LLM applications with LangChain and LangGraph. Use when creating RAG pipelines, agent workflows, chains, or complex LLM orchestration. Triggers on LangChain, LangGraph, LCEL, RAG, retrieval, agent chain.

This is a copy. The original lives at christophacham/langchain.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill langchain

The instruction itself

10 sections, as written by the author

LangChain & LangGraph

Build sophisticated LLM applications with composable chains and agent graphs.

Quick Start

pip install langchain langchain-openai langchain-anthropic langgraph
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate

# Simple chain
llm = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-3-sonnet-20240229")
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_template("Explain {topic} in simple terms.")
chain = prompt | llm

response = chain.invoke({"topic": "quantum computing"})

LCEL (LangChain Expression Language)

Compose chains with the pipe operator:

from langchain_core.output_parsers import StrOutputParser
from langchain_core.runnables import RunnablePassthrough

# Chain with parsing
chain = (
    {"topic": RunnablePassthrough()}
    | prompt
    | llm
    | StrOutputParser()
)

result = chain.invoke("machine learning")

RAG Pipeline

from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain_community.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
from langchain_core.runnables import RunnablePassthrough

# Create vector store
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
vectorstore = Chroma.from_documents(documents, embeddings)
retriever = vectorstore.as_retriever(search_kwargs={"k": 4})

# RAG prompt
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_template("""
Answer based on the following context:
{context}

Question: {question}
""")

# RAG chain
rag_chain = (
    {"context": retriever, "question": RunnablePassthrough()}
    | prompt
    | llm
    | StrOutputParser()
)

answer = rag_chain.invoke("What is the refund policy?")

LangGraph Agent

from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
from langgraph.prebuilt import ToolNode
from langchain_core.tools import tool
from typing import TypedDict, Annotated
import operator

# Define state
class AgentState(TypedDict):
    messages: Annotated[list, operator.add]

# Define tools
@tool
def search(query: str) -> str:
    """Search the web."""
    return f"Results for: {query}"

@tool
def calculator(expression: str) -> str:
    """Calculate mathematical expression."""
    return str(eval(expression))

tools = [search, calculator]

# Create graph
graph = StateGraph(AgentState)

# Add nodes
graph.add_node("agent", call_model)
graph.add_node("tools", ToolNode(tools))

# Add edges
graph.set_entry_point("agent")
graph.add_conditional_edges(
    "agent",
    should_continue,
    {"continue": "tools", "end": END}
)
graph.add_edge("tools", "agent")

# Compile
app = graph.compile()

# Run
result = app.invoke({"messages": [HumanMessage(content="What is 25 * 4?")]})

Structured Output

from langchain_core.pydantic_v1 import BaseModel, Field

class Person(BaseModel):
    name: str = Field(description="Person's name")
    age: int = Field(description="Person's age")
    occupation: str = Field(description="Person's job")

# Structured LLM
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(Person)

result = structured_llm.invoke("John is a 30 year old engineer")
# Person(name='John', age=30, occupation='engineer')

Memory

from langchain_community.chat_message_histories import ChatMessageHistory
from langchain_core.runnables.history import RunnableWithMessageHistory

# Message history
store = {}

def get_session_history(session_id: str):
    if session_id not in store:
        store[session_id] = ChatMessageHistory()
    return store[session_id]

# Chain with memory
with_memory = RunnableWithMessageHistory(
    chain,
    get_session_history,
    input_messages_key="input",
    history_messages_key="history"
)

# Use with session
response = with_memory.invoke(
    {"input": "My name is Alice"},
    config={"configurable": {"session_id": "user123"}}
)

Streaming

# Stream tokens
async for chunk in chain.astream({"topic": "AI"}):
    print(chunk.content, end="", flush=True)

# Stream events (for debugging)
async for event in chain.astream_events({"topic": "AI"}, version="v1"):
    print(event)

LangSmith Tracing

import os
os.environ["LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2"] = "true"
os.environ["LANGCHAIN_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"
os.environ["LANGCHAIN_PROJECT"] = "my-project"

# All chains are now traced automatically
chain.invoke({"topic": "AI"})

Resources

  • LangChain Docs: https://python.langchain.com/docs/introduction/
  • LangGraph Docs: https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/
  • LangSmith: https://smith.langchain.com/
  • LangChain Hub: https://smith.langchain.com/hub
  • LangChain Templates: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/tree/master/templates

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take hoodini/langchain from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.