LangChain
Composable LLM application framework — chains, agents, RAG
Verdict
Battle-tested for RAG pipelines and agent orchestration. Large ecosystem but high abstraction cost. Use LCEL (LangChain Expression Language) — avoid legacy Chain classes.
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