# LangGraph (slim)

> Low-level runtime for long-running, stateful agent graphs with checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop, memory and streaming.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph.md (~5,350 tokens) · this version ~1,130 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**BB · 70.6/100 · rank #95 of 452 · #5 in Agent frameworks & SDKs · agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Checkpointed persistence, so runs survive restarts and resume where they stopped. No MCP client of its own. LangChain's langchain.mcp is in beta.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent framework · vendor: LangChain · category: Agent frameworks & SDKs · legal entity: LangChain, Inc. · provenance 68/100
- Packages: pypi `langgraph`, npm `@langchain/langgraph`
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Languages: Python, TypeScript
- Models: Any
- MCP client: Through `langchain.mcp` (beta), streamable HTTP and stdio
- Multi-agent: Yes, as graphs
- Durable state: Checkpointed persistence with resume
- Human approval: Interrupts, and state you can edit at any point
- Tracing: LangSmith
- Telemetry: None in the library. CLI analytics on by default
- Releases in 90 days: 6
- Prices: LangSmith Plus $39 per seat per month
- 2026-09-01 Breaking change: `langchain-mcp-adapters` deprecated in favour of `langchain.mcp`

- Scores: Reliability 75, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 89, Agent ergonomics 70, Security & auth 60, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 90, Transparency & trust 79 · negative events -3 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Official packages on PyPI (Requires-Python >=3.10) and npm (node >=18) (20). · Schema & documentation, A typed graph API with a reference site (25). · Agent ergonomics, No MCP client in LangGraph. · Security & auth, The library sends nothing according to the privacy page. · Payments & pricing, No payment protocol (0). · Maintenance & community, 1.2.12 on 2026-09-21 (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT (30).
- Sources: 9, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.framework, agent.multi-agent, agent.durable, agent.mcp-client
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langgraph.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/langgraph.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph from a page on langchain.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Use a persistent checkpointer in production, not the in-memory one
2. Move from langchain-mcp-adapters to langchain.mcp, and expect a LangChainBetaWarning
3. Set LANGGRAPH_CLI_NO_ANALYTICS=1 on build machines
4. Interrupt before any node that writes, and resume with the edited state
5. Keep the checkpoint and SQLite packages current. Each had a high-severity advisory in late 2025

## Connect

```bash
pip install langgraph   # or: npm i @langchain/langgraph
```

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## Panel reviews (2, average 3.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★★☆ Five quiet patches, the churn lives next door (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Tells beginners to start elsewhere, and routes MCP through a beta (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)