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LangChain’s latest open source project is hoping to cater to growing demand for easy-to-use AI agents with a no-code agent building platform designed to give even “non-technical users” access to the sector's more advanced tools.
The LLM integration software company launched the Open Agent Platform at its annual Interrupt conference, offering multiple agent orchestration tools and integration with the Model Context Protocol.
Building off the its commercial LangGraph agent builder, LangChain said the open source version provided a “modern, web-based interface … making it accessible to users without technical expertise, while still offering advanced capabilities for developers.”
Those wanting to set up their Open Agent Platform are told to clone two pre-built sample agents, Tools Agent and Supervisor Agent, into their LangGraph account before configuring their environment variables.
Then, LangChain will prompt users to set up a Supabase project for authentication, deploy a LangConnect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) server to give agents access to new information, and set a MCP server URL.
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The latter step has become an increasingly common practice for agent builders, with the Anthropic-led MCP already an almost industry-standard for allowing AI agents to connect with third-party data sources.
LangChain’s MCP server is also powered by tool management and authentication gateway Arcade.dev, which offers prebuilt tools integrated with popular applications including Slack, Gmail, Salesforce.
The Open Agent Platform also includes access to an Agent Supervisor tools, allowing users to "orchestrate multiple agents working together" by using one agent to "supervise" other agents working on a project.
LangChain launched its first open source project in 2022 as a software framework for LLM integration into applications, and quickly grew in popularity, with IBM crediting it as playing “a significant role in making GenAI more accessible.”
Incorporated in April 2023, the company has also since launched commerical products including the LangGraph Platform, an infrastructure layer for "deploying and scaling long-running stateful agents" which also became generally available this week.
It boasted nearly 400 companies had used the platform to deploy agents into their production since its beta launched in June 2024, arguing the product "dramatically lowers the barrier" for the "next hard hurdle" of shipping reliable agents.