LangChain for Absolute Beginners - Part 6: Debugging & Observing Agents with LangSmith
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Over this series you've built an agent that reasons ( Part 3 ), reads your documents ( Part 4 ), and remembers conversations while respecting guardrails ( Part 5 ). There's one problem: right now, if it picks the wrong tool or gives a strange answer, you're debugging blind - printing messages by hand and guessing. LangSmith is LangChain's observability platform. It records every step of every agent run - every model call, every tool call, every token - as a structured, inspectable trace. This…
1Key Takeaways
- Over this series you've built an agent that reasons ( Part 3 ), reads your documents ( Part 4 ), and remembers conversations while respecting guardrails ( Part 5 ).
- There's one problem: right now, if it picks the wrong tool or gives a strange answer, you're debugging blind - printing messages by hand and guessing.
- LangSmith is LangChain's observability platform.
- It records every step of every agent run - every model call, every tool call, every token - as a structured, inspectable trace.
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that over this series you've built an agent that reasons ( Part 3 ), reads your documents ( Part 4 ), and remembers conversations while respecting guardrails ( Part 5 ).
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