A lot of great work on the assignment, but would encourage the students to start thinking about how to capture the prompts, state, graphs as libraries. It makes the code so much easier to refactor and reuse.
https://github.com/langchain-ai/local-deep-researcher/tree/main/src/ollama_deep_researcher
https://github.com/langchain-ai/open_deep_research/tree/main/src/open_deep_research
In Session 5, we’ll cover building agents with LangGraph! Here’s the big idea:
🕴️ **Agents** with access to **Tools** can solve **Problems**.Agent applications have grown in popularity in 2024 and show no signs of stopping. During our initial foray into agents, we’ll focus on some high-level ideas that are essential to understanding agents, including the ReAct framework and function calling!
This research provides a comprehensive analysis of programming paradigms in LangChain, examining the evolution from imperative to declarative approaches with a particular focus on functional programming influences. The study establishes that functional programming is definitively a subset of declarative programming, and demonstrates how LangChain Expression Language (LCEL) incorporates significant functional programming patterns while maintaining practical usability.
Key findings include:
title: "Design of the repoContextProvider MCP Server" source: "https://gist.github.com/donbr/f33ea4a056f6c9f908699ae81c7b3cc9" author:
Objective
Migrate your existing FastAPI services to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using two different implementations:
mcp on PyPI)fastmcp on PyPI)Evaluate each on performance, LangChain integration, and production readiness.
Research Date: May 28, 2025
Status: Current as of major industry announcements
Note on LangChain/LangGraph's Industry Impact: While this analysis focuses on alternatives, it's important to acknowledge LangChain and LangGraph's foundational role in the agentic AI ecosystem. LangChain pioneered many of the abstractions and patterns we see across all frameworks today—from tool integration and memory management to agent orchestration concepts. LangGraph further advanced the field by demonstrating how graph-based architectures could provide precise control over agent workflows. These innovations helped establish industry standards and design patterns that influenced virtually every framework discussed below, creating a more mature and interoperable ecosystem for all developers.
Current Reality: Limited but Emerging
Based on the latest research, the Open Deep Research system's complexity makes direct drag-and-drop implementation challenging, but 2025 shows promising developments:
The Open Deep Research application currently uses configuration-driven search API selection:
# Current approach in utils.py
async def select_and_execute_search(search_api: str, query_list: list[str], params_to_pass: dict):
Developing complex graph-based systems like LangGraph's Open Deep Research requires a state-first architecture approach with incremental complexity layering. The key to success lies in proper planning, modular design, and systematic testing at each development phase.
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