LangGraph for Stateful AI Agents: When Your Claude App Needs a State Machine
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Generative AI
Most Claude integrations follow the same pattern: user sends message, LLM responds, done. That works until your agent needs to: Pause mid-task and wait for human approval Branch into parallel sub-tasks Recover from a failed tool call without restarting Remember what it decided 12 steps ago This is where LangGraph comes in. It's a state machine framework for LLM agents - and it solves a genuinely hard problem.