docs: developer docs (#14776)

Builds out a developer documentation section in the docs

- Links it from contributing.md
- Adds an initial guide on how to contribute an integration

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Hi there! Thank you for even being interested in contributing to LangChain.
As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether they involve new features, improved infrastructure, better documentation, or bug fixes.
## 🗺️ Guidelines
### 👩‍💻 Contributing Code
To learn about how to contribute, please follow the [guides here](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/)
To contribute to this project, please follow the ["fork and pull request"](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects) workflow.
Please do not try to push directly to this repo unless you are a maintainer.
Please follow the checked-in pull request template when opening pull requests. Note related issues and tag relevant
maintainers.
## 🗺️ Guidelines
Pull requests cannot land without passing the formatting, linting, and testing checks first. See [Testing](#testing) and
[Formatting and Linting](#formatting-and-linting) for how to run these checks locally.
### 👩‍💻 Ways to contribute
It's essential that we maintain great documentation and testing. If you:
- Fix a bug
- Add a relevant unit or integration test when possible. These live in `tests/unit_tests` and `tests/integration_tests`.
- Make an improvement
- Update any affected example notebooks and documentation. These live in `docs`.
- Update unit and integration tests when relevant.
- Add a feature
- Add a demo notebook in `docs/docs/`.
- Add unit and integration tests.
There are many ways to contribute to LangChain. Here are some common ways people contribute:
We are a small, progress-oriented team. If there's something you'd like to add or change, opening a pull request is the
best way to get our attention.
- [**Documentation**](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/documentation): Help improve our docs, including this one!
- [**Code**](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/code): Help us write code, fix bugs, or improve our infrastructure.
- [**Integrations**](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/integration): Help us integrate with your favorite vendors and tools.
### 🚩GitHub Issues
@ -54,327 +40,6 @@ In a similar vein, we do enforce certain linting, formatting, and documentation
If you are finding these difficult (or even just annoying) to work with, feel free to contact a maintainer for help -
we do not want these to get in the way of getting good code into the codebase.
## 🚀 Quick Start
This quick start guide explains how to run the repository locally.
For a [development container](https://containers.dev/), see the [.devcontainer folder](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/tree/master/.devcontainer).
### Dependency Management: Poetry and other env/dependency managers
This project utilizes [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) v1.6.1+ as a dependency manager.
❗Note: *Before installing Poetry*, if you use `Conda`, create and activate a new Conda env (e.g. `conda create -n langchain python=3.9`)
Install Poetry: **[documentation on how to install it](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation)**.
❗Note: If you use `Conda` or `Pyenv` as your environment/package manager, after installing Poetry,
tell Poetry to use the virtualenv python environment (`poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true`)
### Different packages
This repository contains multiple packages:
- `langchain-core`: Base interfaces for key abstractions as well as logic for combining them in chains (LangChain Expression Language).
- `langchain-community`: Third-party integrations of various components.
- `langchain`: Chains, agents, and retrieval logic that makes up the cognitive architecture of your applications.
- `langchain-experimental`: Components and chains that are experimental, either in the sense that the techniques are novel and still being tested, or they require giving the LLM more access than would be possible in most production systems.
Each of these has its own development environment. Docs are run from the top-level makefile, but development
is split across separate test & release flows.
For this quickstart, start with langchain:
```bash
cd libs/langchain
```
### Local Development Dependencies
Install langchain development requirements (for running langchain, running examples, linting, formatting, tests, and coverage):
```bash
poetry install --with test
```
Then verify dependency installation:
```bash
make test
```
If the tests don't pass, you may need to pip install additional dependencies, such as `numexpr` and `openapi_schema_pydantic`.
If during installation you receive a `WheelFileValidationError` for `debugpy`, please make sure you are running
Poetry v1.6.1+. This bug was present in older versions of Poetry (e.g. 1.4.1) and has been resolved in newer releases.
If you are still seeing this bug on v1.6.1, you may also try disabling "modern installation"
(`poetry config installer.modern-installation false`) and re-installing requirements.
See [this `debugpy` issue](https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/1246) for more details.
### Testing
_some test dependencies are optional; see section about optional dependencies_.
Unit tests cover modular logic that does not require calls to outside APIs.
If you add new logic, please add a unit test.
To run unit tests:
```bash
make test
```
To run unit tests in Docker:
```bash
make docker_tests
```
There are also [integration tests and code-coverage](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/tree/master/libs/langchain/tests/README.md) available.
### Only develop langchain_core or langchain_experimental
If you are only developing `langchain_core` or `langchain_experimental`, you can simply install the dependencies for the respective projects and run tests:
```bash
cd libs/core
poetry install --with test
make test
```
Or:
```bash
cd libs/experimental
poetry install --with test
make test
```
### Formatting and Linting
Run these locally before submitting a PR; the CI system will check also.
#### Code Formatting
Formatting for this project is done via [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/).
To run formatting for docs, cookbook and templates:
```bash
make format
```
To run formatting for a library, run the same command from the relevant library directory:
```bash
cd libs/{LIBRARY}
make format
```
Additionally, you can run the formatter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the format_diff command:
```bash
make format_diff
```
This is especially useful when you have made changes to a subset of the project and want to ensure your changes are properly formatted without affecting the rest of the codebase.
#### Linting
Linting for this project is done via a combination of [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/) and [mypy](http://mypy-lang.org/).
To run linting for docs, cookbook and templates:
```bash
make lint
```
To run linting for a library, run the same command from the relevant library directory:
```bash
cd libs/{LIBRARY}
make lint
```
In addition, you can run the linter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the lint_diff command:
```bash
make lint_diff
```
This can be very helpful when you've made changes to only certain parts of the project and want to ensure your changes meet the linting standards without having to check the entire codebase.
We recognize linting can be annoying - if you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.
#### Spellcheck
Spellchecking for this project is done via [codespell](https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell).
Note that `codespell` finds common typos, so it could have false-positive (correctly spelled but rarely used) and false-negatives (not finding misspelled) words.
To check spelling for this project:
```bash
make spell_check
```
To fix spelling in place:
```bash
make spell_fix
```
If codespell is incorrectly flagging a word, you can skip spellcheck for that word by adding it to the codespell config in the `pyproject.toml` file.
```python
[tool.codespell]
...
# Add here:
ignore-words-list = 'momento,collison,ned,foor,reworkd,parth,whats,aapply,mysogyny,unsecure'
```
## Working with Optional Dependencies
Langchain relies heavily on optional dependencies to keep the Langchain package lightweight.
You only need to add a new dependency if a **unit test** relies on the package.
If your package is only required for **integration tests**, then you can skip these
steps and leave all pyproject.toml and poetry.lock files alone.
If you're adding a new dependency to Langchain, assume that it will be an optional dependency, and
that most users won't have it installed.
Users who do not have the dependency installed should be able to **import** your code without
any side effects (no warnings, no errors, no exceptions).
To introduce the dependency to the pyproject.toml file correctly, please do the following:
1. Add the dependency to the main group as an optional dependency
```bash
poetry add --optional [package_name]
```
2. Open pyproject.toml and add the dependency to the `extended_testing` extra
3. Relock the poetry file to update the extra.
```bash
poetry lock --no-update
```
4. Add a unit test that the very least attempts to import the new code. Ideally, the unit
test makes use of lightweight fixtures to test the logic of the code.
5. Please use the `@pytest.mark.requires(package_name)` decorator for any tests that require the dependency.
## Adding a Jupyter Notebook
If you are adding a Jupyter Notebook example, you'll want to install the optional `dev` dependencies.
To install dev dependencies:
```bash
poetry install --with dev
```
Launch a notebook:
```bash
poetry run jupyter notebook
```
When you run `poetry install`, the `langchain` package is installed as editable in the virtualenv, so your new logic can be imported into the notebook.
## Documentation
While the code is split between `langchain` and `langchain.experimental`, the documentation is one holistic thing.
This covers how to get started contributing to documentation.
From the top-level of this repo, install documentation dependencies:
```bash
poetry install
```
### Contribute Documentation
The docs directory contains Documentation and API Reference.
Documentation is built using [Docusaurus 2](https://docusaurus.io/).
API Reference are largely autogenerated by [sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/) from the code.
For that reason, we ask that you add good documentation to all classes and methods.
Similar to linting, we recognize documentation can be annoying. If you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.
### Build Documentation Locally
In the following commands, the prefix `api_` indicates that those are operations for the API Reference.
Before building the documentation, it is always a good idea to clean the build directory:
```bash
make docs_clean
make api_docs_clean
```
Next, you can build the documentation as outlined below:
```bash
make docs_build
make api_docs_build
```
Finally, run the link checker to ensure all links are valid:
```bash
make docs_linkcheck
make api_docs_linkcheck
```
### Verify Documentation changes
After pushing documentation changes to the repository, you can preview and verify that the changes are
what you wanted by clicking the `View deployment` or `Visit Preview` buttons on the pull request `Conversation` page.
This will take you to a preview of the documentation changes.
This preview is created by [Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/getting-started-with-vercel).
## 📕 Releases & Versioning
As of now, LangChain has an ad hoc release process: releases are cut with high frequency by
a maintainer and published to [PyPI](https://pypi.org/).
The different packages are versioned slightly differently.
### `langchain-core`
`langchain-core` is currently on version `0.1.x`.
As `langchain-core` contains the base abstractions and runtime for the whole LangChain ecosystem, we will communicate any breaking changes with advance notice and version bumps. The exception for this is anything in `langchain_core.beta`. The reason for `langchain_core.beta` is that given the rate of change of the field, being able to move quickly is still a priority, and this module is our attempt to do so.
Minor version increases will occur for:
- Breaking changes for any public interfaces NOT in `langchain_core.beta`
Patch version increases will occur for:
- Bug fixes
- New features
- Any changes to private interfaces
- Any changes to `langchain_core.beta`
### `langchain`
`langchain` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase. Any changes to public interfaces are nearly always done in a backwards compatible way and will be communicated ahead of time when they are not backwards compatible.
We are targeting January 2024 for a release of `langchain` v0.1, at which point `langchain` will adopt the same versioning policy as `langchain-core`.
### `langchain-community`
`langchain-community` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase.
### `langchain-experimental`
`langchain-experimental` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase.
## 🌟 Recognition
### Contributor Documentation
If your contribution has made its way into a release, we will want to give you credit on Twitter (only if you want though)!
If you have a Twitter account you would like us to mention, please let us know in the PR or through another means.
To learn about how to contribute, please follow the [guides here](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/)

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attributes:
label: Your contribution
description: |
Is there any way that you could help, e.g. by submitting a PR? Make sure to read the CONTRIBUTING.MD [readme](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
Is there any way that you could help, e.g. by submitting a PR? Make sure to read the [Contributing Guide](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/)

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Please make sure your PR is passing linting and testing before submitting. Run `make format`, `make lint` and `make test` to check this locally.
See contribution guidelines for more information on how to write/run tests, lint, etc:
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/
If you're adding a new integration, please include:
1. a test for the integration, preferably unit tests that do not rely on network access,

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As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether it be in the form of a new feature, improved infrastructure, or better documentation.
For detailed information on how to contribute, see [here](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
For detailed information on how to contribute, see [here](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/).
## 🌟 Contributors

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cd ../_dist
poetry run python scripts/model_feat_table.py
cp ../cookbook/README.md src/pages/cookbook.mdx
cp ../.github/CONTRIBUTING.md docs/contributing.md
mkdir -p docs/templates
cp ../templates/docs/INDEX.md docs/templates/index.md
poetry run python scripts/copy_templates.py
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langserve/main/README.md -O docs/langserve.md
yarn

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# Website
# LangChain Documentation
This website is built using [Docusaurus 2](https://docusaurus.io/), a modern static website generator.
### Installation
```
$ yarn
```
### Local Development
```
$ yarn start
```
This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.
### Build
```
$ yarn build
```
This command generates static content into the `build` directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.
### Deployment
Using SSH:
```
$ USE_SSH=true yarn deploy
```
Not using SSH:
```
$ GIT_USER=<Your GitHub username> yarn deploy
```
If you are using GitHub pages for hosting, this command is a convenient way to build the website and push to the `gh-pages` branch.
### Continuous Integration
Some common defaults for linting/formatting have been set for you. If you integrate your project with an open-source Continuous Integration system (e.g. Travis CI, CircleCI), you may check for issues using the following command.
```
$ yarn ci
```
For more information on contributing to our documentation, see the [Documentation Contributing Guide](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/documentation)

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LangChain is the product of over 5,000+ contributions by 1,500+ contributors, and there is ******still****** so much to do together. Here are some ways to get involved:
- **[Open a pull request](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues):** Wed appreciate all forms of contributionsnew features, infrastructure improvements, better documentation, bug fixes, etc. If you have an improvement or an idea, wed love to work on it with you.
- **[Read our contributor guidelines:](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/bbd22b9b761389a5e40fc45b0570e1830aabb707/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)** We ask contributors to follow a ["fork and pull request"](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects) workflow, run a few local checks for formatting, linting, and testing before submitting, and follow certain documentation and testing conventions.
- **[Read our contributor guidelines:](./contributing/)** We ask contributors to follow a ["fork and pull request"](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects) workflow, run a few local checks for formatting, linting, and testing before submitting, and follow certain documentation and testing conventions.
- **First time contributor?** [Try one of these PRs with the “good first issue” tag](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/contribute).
- **Become an expert:** Our experts help the community by answering product questions in Discord. If thats a role youd like to play, wed be so grateful! (And we have some special experts-only goodies/perks we can tell you more about). Send us an email to introduce yourself at hello@langchain.dev and well take it from there!
- **Integrate with LangChain:** If your product integrates with LangChainor aspires towe want to help make sure the experience is as smooth as possible for you and end users. Send us an email at hello@langchain.dev and tell us what youre working on.

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sidebar_position: 1
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# Contribute Code
To contribute to this project, please follow the ["fork and pull request"](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects) workflow.
Please do not try to push directly to this repo unless you are a maintainer.
Please follow the checked-in pull request template when opening pull requests. Note related issues and tag relevant
maintainers.
Pull requests cannot land without passing the formatting, linting, and testing checks first. See [Testing](#testing) and
[Formatting and Linting](#formatting-and-linting) for how to run these checks locally.
It's essential that we maintain great documentation and testing. If you:
- Fix a bug
- Add a relevant unit or integration test when possible. These live in `tests/unit_tests` and `tests/integration_tests`.
- Make an improvement
- Update any affected example notebooks and documentation. These live in `docs`.
- Update unit and integration tests when relevant.
- Add a feature
- Add a demo notebook in `docs/docs/`.
- Add unit and integration tests.
We are a small, progress-oriented team. If there's something you'd like to add or change, opening a pull request is the
best way to get our attention.
## 🚀 Quick Start
This quick start guide explains how to run the repository locally.
For a [development container](https://containers.dev/), see the [.devcontainer folder](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/tree/master/.devcontainer).
### Dependency Management: Poetry and other env/dependency managers
This project utilizes [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) v1.6.1+ as a dependency manager.
❗Note: *Before installing Poetry*, if you use `Conda`, create and activate a new Conda env (e.g. `conda create -n langchain python=3.9`)
Install Poetry: **[documentation on how to install it](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation)**.
❗Note: If you use `Conda` or `Pyenv` as your environment/package manager, after installing Poetry,
tell Poetry to use the virtualenv python environment (`poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true`)
### Different packages
This repository contains multiple packages:
- `langchain-core`: Base interfaces for key abstractions as well as logic for combining them in chains (LangChain Expression Language).
- `langchain-community`: Third-party integrations of various components.
- `langchain`: Chains, agents, and retrieval logic that makes up the cognitive architecture of your applications.
- `langchain-experimental`: Components and chains that are experimental, either in the sense that the techniques are novel and still being tested, or they require giving the LLM more access than would be possible in most production systems.
- Partner integrations: Partner packages in `libs/partners` that are independently version controlled.
Each of these has its own development environment. Docs are run from the top-level makefile, but development
is split across separate test & release flows.
For this quickstart, start with langchain-community:
```bash
cd libs/community
```
### Local Development Dependencies
Install langchain-community development requirements (for running langchain, running examples, linting, formatting, tests, and coverage):
```bash
poetry install --with lint,typing,test,integration_tests
```
Then verify dependency installation:
```bash
make test
```
If during installation you receive a `WheelFileValidationError` for `debugpy`, please make sure you are running
Poetry v1.6.1+. This bug was present in older versions of Poetry (e.g. 1.4.1) and has been resolved in newer releases.
If you are still seeing this bug on v1.6.1, you may also try disabling "modern installation"
(`poetry config installer.modern-installation false`) and re-installing requirements.
See [this `debugpy` issue](https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/1246) for more details.
### Testing
_In `langchain`, `langchain-community`, and `langchain-experimental`, some test dependencies are optional; see section about optional dependencies_.
Unit tests cover modular logic that does not require calls to outside APIs.
If you add new logic, please add a unit test.
To run unit tests:
```bash
make test
```
To run unit tests in Docker:
```bash
make docker_tests
```
There are also [integration tests and code-coverage](./testing) available.
### Only develop langchain_core or langchain_experimental
If you are only developing `langchain_core` or `langchain_experimental`, you can simply install the dependencies for the respective projects and run tests:
```bash
cd libs/core
poetry install --with test
make test
```
Or:
```bash
cd libs/experimental
poetry install --with test
make test
```
### Formatting and Linting
Run these locally before submitting a PR; the CI system will check also.
#### Code Formatting
Formatting for this project is done via [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/).
To run formatting for docs, cookbook and templates:
```bash
make format
```
To run formatting for a library, run the same command from the relevant library directory:
```bash
cd libs/{LIBRARY}
make format
```
Additionally, you can run the formatter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the format_diff command:
```bash
make format_diff
```
This is especially useful when you have made changes to a subset of the project and want to ensure your changes are properly formatted without affecting the rest of the codebase.
#### Linting
Linting for this project is done via a combination of [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/) and [mypy](http://mypy-lang.org/).
To run linting for docs, cookbook and templates:
```bash
make lint
```
To run linting for a library, run the same command from the relevant library directory:
```bash
cd libs/{LIBRARY}
make lint
```
In addition, you can run the linter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the lint_diff command:
```bash
make lint_diff
```
This can be very helpful when you've made changes to only certain parts of the project and want to ensure your changes meet the linting standards without having to check the entire codebase.
We recognize linting can be annoying - if you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.
#### Spellcheck
Spellchecking for this project is done via [codespell](https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell).
Note that `codespell` finds common typos, so it could have false-positive (correctly spelled but rarely used) and false-negatives (not finding misspelled) words.
To check spelling for this project:
```bash
make spell_check
```
To fix spelling in place:
```bash
make spell_fix
```
If codespell is incorrectly flagging a word, you can skip spellcheck for that word by adding it to the codespell config in the `pyproject.toml` file.
```python
[tool.codespell]
...
# Add here:
ignore-words-list = 'momento,collison,ned,foor,reworkd,parth,whats,aapply,mysogyny,unsecure'
```
## Working with Optional Dependencies
`langchain`, `langchain-community`, and `langchain-experimental` rely on optional dependencies to keep these packages lightweight.
`langchain-core` and partner packages **do not use** optional dependencies in this way.
You only need to add a new dependency if a **unit test** relies on the package.
If your package is only required for **integration tests**, then you can skip these
steps and leave all pyproject.toml and poetry.lock files alone.
If you're adding a new dependency to Langchain, assume that it will be an optional dependency, and
that most users won't have it installed.
Users who do not have the dependency installed should be able to **import** your code without
any side effects (no warnings, no errors, no exceptions).
To introduce the dependency to the pyproject.toml file correctly, please do the following:
1. Add the dependency to the main group as an optional dependency
```bash
poetry add --optional [package_name]
```
2. Open pyproject.toml and add the dependency to the `extended_testing` extra
3. Relock the poetry file to update the extra.
```bash
poetry lock --no-update
```
4. Add a unit test that the very least attempts to import the new code. Ideally, the unit
test makes use of lightweight fixtures to test the logic of the code.
5. Please use the `@pytest.mark.requires(package_name)` decorator for any tests that require the dependency.
## Adding a Jupyter Notebook
If you are adding a Jupyter Notebook example, you'll want to install the optional `dev` dependencies.
To install dev dependencies:
```bash
poetry install --with dev
```
Launch a notebook:
```bash
poetry run jupyter notebook
```
When you run `poetry install`, the `langchain` package is installed as editable in the virtualenv, so your new logic can be imported into the notebook.

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sidebar_position: 3
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# Contribute Documentation
The docs directory contains Documentation and API Reference.
Documentation is built using [Quarto](https://quarto.org) and [Docusaurus 2](https://docusaurus.io/).
API Reference are largely autogenerated by [sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/) from the code and are hosted by [Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/).
For that reason, we ask that you add good documentation to all classes and methods.
Similar to linting, we recognize documentation can be annoying. If you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.
## Build Documentation Locally
### Install dependencies
- [Quarto](https://quarto.org) - package that converts Jupyter notebooks (`.ipynb` files) into mdx files for serving in Docusaurus.
- `poetry install` from the monorepo root
### Building
In the following commands, the prefix `api_` indicates that those are operations for the API Reference.
Before building the documentation, it is always a good idea to clean the build directory:
```bash
make docs_clean
make api_docs_clean
```
Next, you can build the documentation as outlined below:
```bash
make docs_build
make api_docs_build
```
Finally, run the link checker to ensure all links are valid:
```bash
make docs_linkcheck
make api_docs_linkcheck
```
### Linting and Formatting
The docs are linted from the monorepo root. To lint the docs, run the following from there:
```bash
poetry install --with lint,typing
make lint
```
If you have formatting-related errors, you can fix them automatically with:
```bash
make format
```
## Verify Documentation changes
After pushing documentation changes to the repository, you can preview and verify that the changes are
what you wanted by clicking the `View deployment` or `Visit Preview` buttons on the pull request `Conversation` page.
This will take you to a preview of the documentation changes.
This preview is created by [Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/getting-started-with-vercel).

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---
sidebar_position: 0
---
# Welcome Contributors
Hi there! Thank you for even being interested in contributing to LangChain.
As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether they involve new features, improved infrastructure, better documentation, or bug fixes.
## 🗺️ Guidelines
### 👩‍💻 Ways to contribute
There are many ways to contribute to LangChain. Here are some common ways people contribute:
- [**Documentation**](./documentation): Help improve our docs, including this one!
- [**Code**](./code): Help us write code, fix bugs, or improve our infrastructure.
- [**Integrations**](./integration): Help us integrate with your favorite vendors and tools.
### 🚩GitHub Issues
Our [issues](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues) page is kept up to date with bugs, improvements, and feature requests.
There is a taxonomy of labels to help with sorting and discovery of issues of interest. Please use these to help organize issues.
If you start working on an issue, please assign it to yourself.
If you are adding an issue, please try to keep it focused on a single, modular bug/improvement/feature.
If two issues are related, or blocking, please link them rather than combining them.
We will try to keep these issues as up-to-date as possible, though
with the rapid rate of development in this field some may get out of date.
If you notice this happening, please let us know.
### 🙋Getting Help
Our goal is to have the simplest developer setup possible. Should you experience any difficulty getting setup, please
contact a maintainer! Not only do we want to help get you unblocked, but we also want to make sure that the process is
smooth for future contributors.
In a similar vein, we do enforce certain linting, formatting, and documentation standards in the codebase.
If you are finding these difficult (or even just annoying) to work with, feel free to contact a maintainer for help -
we do not want these to get in the way of getting good code into the codebase.

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---
sidebar_position: 5
---
# Contribute Integrations
To begin, make sure you have all the dependencies outlined in guide on [Contributing Code](./code).
There are a few different places you can contribute integrations for LangChain:
- **Community**: For lighter-weight integrations that are primarily maintained by LangChain and the Open Source Community.
- **Partner Packages**: For independent packages that are co-maintained by LangChain and a partner.
For the most part, new integrations should be added to the Community package. Partner packages require more maintenance as separate packages, so please confirm with the LangChain team before creating a new partner package.
In the following sections, we'll walk through how to contribute to each of these packages from a fake company, `Parrot Link AI`.
## Community Package
The `langchain-community` package is in `libs/community` and contains most integrations.
It is installed by users with `pip install langchain-community`, and exported members can be imported with code like
```python
from langchain_community.chat_models import ParrotLinkLLM
from langchain_community.llms import ChatParrotLink
from langchain_community.vectorstores import ParrotLinkVectorStore
```
The community package relies on manually-installed dependent packages, so you will see errors if you try to import a package that is not installed. In our fake example, if you tried to import `ParrotLinkLLM` without installing `parrot-link-sdk`, you will see an `ImportError` telling you to install it when trying to use it.
Let's say we wanted to implement a chat model for Parrot Link AI. We would create a new file in `libs/community/langchain_community/chat_models/parrot_link.py` with the following code:
```python
from langchain_core.language_models.chat_models import BaseChatModel
class ChatParrotLink(BaseChatModel):
"""ChatParrotLink chat model.
Example:
.. code-block:: python
from langchain_parrot_link import ChatParrotLink
model = ChatParrotLink()
"""
...
```
And we would write tests in:
- Unit tests: `libs/community/tests/unit_tests/chat_models/test_parrot_link.py`
- Integration tests: `libs/community/tests/integration_tests/chat_models/test_parrot_link.py`
And add documentation to:
- `docs/docs/integrations/chat/parrot_link.ipynb`
- `docs/docs/
## Partner Packages
Partner packages are in `libs/partners/*` and are installed by users with `pip install langchain-{partner}`, and exported members can be imported with code like
```python
from langchain_{partner} import X
```
### Set up a new package
To set up a new partner package, use the latest version of the LangChain CLI. You can install or update it with:
```bash
pip install -U langchain-cli
```
Let's say you want to create a new partner package working for a company called Parrot Link AI.
Then, run the following command to create a new partner package:
```bash
cd libs/partners
langchain-cli integration new
> Name: parrot-link
> Name of integration in PascalCase [ParrotLink]: ParrotLink
```
This will create a new package in `libs/partners/parrot-link` with the following structure:
```
libs/partners/parrot-link/
langchain_parrot_link/ # folder containing your package
...
tests/
...
docs/ # bootstrapped docs notebooks, must be moved to /docs in monorepo root
...
scripts/ # scripts for CI
...
LICENSE
README.md # fill out with information about your package
Makefile # default commands for CI
pyproject.toml # package metadata, mostly managed by Poetry
poetry.lock # package lockfile, managed by Poetry
.gitignore
```
### Implement your package
First, add any dependencies your package needs, such as your company's SDK:
```bash
poetry add parrot-link-sdk
```
If you need separate dependencies for type checking, you can add them to the `typing` group with:
```bash
poetry add --group typing types-parrot-link-sdk
```
Then, implement your package in `libs/partners/parrot-link/langchain_parrot_link`.
By default, this will include stubs for a Chat Model, an LLM, and/or a Vector Store. You should delete any of the files you won't use and remove them from `__init__.py`.
### Write Unit and Integration Tests
Some basic tests are generated in the tests/ directory. You should add more tests to cover your package's functionality.
For information on running and implementing tests, see the [Testing guide](./testing).
### Write documentation
Documentation is generated from Jupyter notebooks in the `docs/` directory. You should move the generated notebooks to the relevant `docs/docs/integrations` directory in the monorepo root.
### Additional steps
Contributor steps:
- [ ] Add the new package to the API reference dropdown in `docs/api_reference/themes/scikit-learn-modern/nav.html`
- [ ] Add package (e.g. `langchain-parrot-link`) to API docs build in `docs/api_reference/requirements.txt`
- [ ] Add secret names to manual integrations workflow in `.github/workflows/_integration_test.yml`
- [ ] Add secrets to release workflow (for pre-release testing) in `.github/workflows/_release.yml`
- [ ] Add library choice to top of `.github/workflows/_release.yml`
Maintainer steps (Contributors should **not** do these):
- [ ] set up pypi and test pypi projects
- [ ] add credential secrets to Github Actions
- [ ] add package to conda-forge

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---
sidebar_label: Package Versioning
sidebar_position: 4
---
# 📕 Package Versioning
As of now, LangChain has an ad hoc release process: releases are cut with high frequency by
a maintainer and published to [PyPI](https://pypi.org/).
The different packages are versioned slightly differently.
## `langchain-core`
`langchain-core` is currently on version `0.1.x`.
As `langchain-core` contains the base abstractions and runtime for the whole LangChain ecosystem, we will communicate any breaking changes with advance notice and version bumps. The exception for this is anything in `langchain_core.beta`. The reason for `langchain_core.beta` is that given the rate of change of the field, being able to move quickly is still a priority, and this module is our attempt to do so.
Minor version increases will occur for:
- Breaking changes for any public interfaces NOT in `langchain_core.beta`
Patch version increases will occur for:
- Bug fixes
- New features
- Any changes to private interfaces
- Any changes to `langchain_core.beta`
## `langchain`
`langchain` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase. Any changes to public interfaces are nearly always done in a backwards compatible way and will be communicated ahead of time when they are not backwards compatible.
We are targeting January 2024 for a release of `langchain` v0.1, at which point `langchain` will adopt the same versioning policy as `langchain-core`.
## `langchain-community`
`langchain-community` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase.
## `langchain-experimental`
`langchain-experimental` is currently on version `0.0.x`
All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase.
## Partner Packages
Partner packages are versioned independently.
# 🌟 Recognition
If your contribution has made its way into a release, we will want to give you credit on Twitter (only if you want though)!
If you have a Twitter account you would like us to mention, please let us know in the PR or through another means.

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---
sidebar_position: 2
---
# Testing
All of our packages have unit tests and integration tests, and we favor unit tests over integration tests.
Unit tests run on every pull request, so they should be fast and reliable.
Integration tests run once a day, and they require more setup, so they should be reserved for confirming interface points with external services.
## Unit Tests
Unit tests cover modular logic that does not require calls to outside APIs.
If you add new logic, please add a unit test.
To install dependencies for unit tests:
```bash
poetry install --with test
```
To run unit tests:
```bash
make test
```
To run unit tests in Docker:
```bash
make docker_tests
```
To run a specific test:
```bash
TEST_FILE=tests/unit_tests/test_imports.py make test
```
## Integration Tests
Integration tests cover logic that requires making calls to outside APIs (often integration with other services).
If you add support for a new external API, please add a new integration test.
**Warning:** Almost no tests should be integration tests.
Tests that require making network connections make it difficult for other
developers to test the code.
Instead favor relying on `responses` library and/or mock.patch to mock
requests using small fixtures.
To install dependencies for integration tests:
```bash
poetry install --with test,test_integration
```
To run integration tests:
```bash
make integration_tests
```
### Prepare
The integration tests use several search engines and databases. The tests
aim to verify the correct behavior of the engines and databases according to
their specifications and requirements.
To run some integration tests, such as tests located in
`tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/`, you will need to install the following
software:
- Docker
- Python 3.8.1 or later
Any new dependencies should be added by running:
```bash
# add package and install it after adding:
poetry add tiktoken@latest --group "test_integration" && poetry install --with test_integration
```
Before running any tests, you should start a specific Docker container that has all the
necessary dependencies installed. For instance, we use the `elasticsearch.yml` container
for `test_elasticsearch.py`:
```bash
cd tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/docker-compose
docker-compose -f elasticsearch.yml up
```
For environments that requires more involving preparation, look for `*.sh`. For instance,
`opensearch.sh` builds a required docker image and then launch opensearch.
### Prepare environment variables for local testing:
- copy `tests/integration_tests/.env.example` to `tests/integration_tests/.env`
- set variables in `tests/integration_tests/.env` file, e.g `OPENAI_API_KEY`
Additionally, it's important to note that some integration tests may require certain
environment variables to be set, such as `OPENAI_API_KEY`. Be sure to set any required
environment variables before running the tests to ensure they run correctly.
### Recording HTTP interactions with pytest-vcr
Some of the integration tests in this repository involve making HTTP requests to
external services. To prevent these requests from being made every time the tests are
run, we use pytest-vcr to record and replay HTTP interactions.
When running tests in a CI/CD pipeline, you may not want to modify the existing
cassettes. You can use the --vcr-record=none command-line option to disable recording
new cassettes. Here's an example:
```bash
pytest --log-cli-level=10 tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_pinecone.py --vcr-record=none
pytest tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_elasticsearch.py --vcr-record=none
```
### Run some tests with coverage:
```bash
pytest tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_elasticsearch.py --cov=langchain --cov-report=html
start "" htmlcov/index.html || open htmlcov/index.html
```
## Coverage
Code coverage (i.e. the amount of code that is covered by unit tests) helps identify areas of the code that are potentially more or less brittle.
Coverage requires the dependencies for integration tests:
```bash
poetry install --with test_integration
```
To get a report of current coverage, run the following:
```bash
make coverage
```

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link: { type: 'doc', id: "templates/index" }
},
],
contributing: [
// {
// type: "category",
// label: "Contributing",
// items: [
// { type: "autogenerated", dirName: "contributing" },
// ],
// link: { type: 'doc', id: "contributing/index" }
// },
{type: "autogenerated", dirName: "contributing" }
],
};

@ -19,6 +19,5 @@ mkdir docs/templates
cp ../templates/docs/INDEX.md docs/templates/index.md
python3.8 scripts/copy_templates.py
cp ../cookbook/README.md src/pages/cookbook.mdx
cp ../.github/CONTRIBUTING.md docs/contributing.md
wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langserve/main/README.md -O docs/langserve.md
quarto render docs/

@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ All changes will be accompanied by a patch version increase.
As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether it be in the form of a new feature, improved infrastructure, or better documentation.
For detailed information on how to contribute, see [here](../../.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
For detailed information on how to contribute, see the [Contributing Guide](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/).

@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ optional = true
# developers from being able to easily run them.
# Instead write unit tests that use the `responses` library or mock.patch with
# fixtures. Keep the fixtures minimal.
# See CONTRIBUTING.md for more instructions on working with optional dependencies.
# https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#working-with-optional-dependencies
# See Contributing Guide for more instructions on working with optional dependencies.
# https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/code#working-with-optional-dependencies
pytest-vcr = "^1.0.2"
wrapt = "^1.15.0"
openai = "^1"

@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ Patch version increases will occur for:
As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether it be in the form of a new feature, improved infrastructure, or better documentation.
For detailed information on how to contribute, see [here](../../.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
For detailed information on how to contribute, see the [Contributing Guide](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/).

@ -93,4 +93,4 @@ For more information on these concepts, please see our [full documentation](http
As an open-source project in a rapidly developing field, we are extremely open to contributions, whether it be in the form of a new feature, improved infrastructure, or better documentation.
For detailed information on how to contribute, see [here](../../.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
For detailed information on how to contribute, see the [Contributing Guide](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/).

@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ optional = true
# developers from being able to easily run them.
# Instead write unit tests that use the `responses` library or mock.patch with
# fixtures. Keep the fixtures minimal.
# See CONTRIBUTING.md for more instructions on working with optional dependencies.
# https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#working-with-optional-dependencies
# See the Contributing Guide for more instructions on working with optional dependencies.
# https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/code#working-with-optional-dependencies
pytest-vcr = "^1.0.2"
wrapt = "^1.15.0"
openai = "^1"

@ -1,125 +1,3 @@
# Langchain Tests
## Unit Tests
Unit tests cover modular logic that does not require calls to outside APIs.
If you add new logic, please add a unit test.
To run unit tests:
```bash
make test
```
To run unit tests in Docker:
```bash
make docker_tests
```
## Integration Tests
Integration tests cover logic that requires making calls to outside APIs (often integration with other services).
If you add support for a new external API, please add a new integration test.
**warning** Almost no tests should be integration tests.
Tests that require making network connections make it difficult for other
developers to test the code.
Instead favor relying on `responses` library and/or mock.patch to mock
requests using small fixtures.
To install dependencies for integration tests:
```bash
poetry install --with test_integration
```
To run integration tests:
```bash
make integration_tests
```
### Prepare
The integration tests exercise several search engines and databases. The tests
aim to verify the correct behavior of the engines and databases according to
their specifications and requirements.
To run some integration tests, such as tests located in
`tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/`, you will need to install the following
software:
- Docker
- Python 3.8.1 or later
Any new dependencies should be added by running:
```bash
# add package and install it after adding:
poetry add tiktoken@latest --group "test_integration" && poetry install --with test_integration
```
Before running any tests, you should start a specific Docker container that has all the
necessary dependencies installed. For instance, we use the `elasticsearch.yml` container
for `test_elasticsearch.py`:
```bash
cd tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/docker-compose
docker-compose -f elasticsearch.yml up
```
For environments that requires more involving preparation, look for `*.sh`. For instance,
`opensearch.sh` builds a required docker image and then launch opensearch.
### Prepare environment variables for local testing:
- copy `tests/integration_tests/.env.example` to `tests/integration_tests/.env`
- set variables in `tests/integration_tests/.env` file, e.g `OPENAI_API_KEY`
Additionally, it's important to note that some integration tests may require certain
environment variables to be set, such as `OPENAI_API_KEY`. Be sure to set any required
environment variables before running the tests to ensure they run correctly.
### Recording HTTP interactions with pytest-vcr
Some of the integration tests in this repository involve making HTTP requests to
external services. To prevent these requests from being made every time the tests are
run, we use pytest-vcr to record and replay HTTP interactions.
When running tests in a CI/CD pipeline, you may not want to modify the existing
cassettes. You can use the --vcr-record=none command-line option to disable recording
new cassettes. Here's an example:
```bash
pytest --log-cli-level=10 tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_pinecone.py --vcr-record=none
pytest tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_elasticsearch.py --vcr-record=none
```
### Run some tests with coverage:
```bash
pytest tests/integration_tests/vectorstores/test_elasticsearch.py --cov=langchain --cov-report=html
start "" htmlcov/index.html || open htmlcov/index.html
```
## Coverage
Code coverage (i.e. the amount of code that is covered by unit tests) helps identify areas of the code that are potentially more or less brittle.
Coverage requires the dependencies for integration tests:
```bash
poetry install --with test_integration
```
To get a report of current coverage, run the following:
```bash
make coverage
```
[This guide has moved to the docs](https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/testing)

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