CEO & Co-founder @ LangChain
San Francisco, CA
CEO and co-founder of LangChain, the most widely-used framework for building LLM-powered applications. Legendary for his deep presence in the developer community, paying close attention to developer problems and shipping solutions rapidly. Built the orchestration layer that powers thousands of AI applications in production.
hwchase17 merged langchain-ai/deepagents#1759 · March 12, 2026 12:15 feat(cli): client-server architecture via `langgraph dev` #1759 (taken over by Mason Daugherty (@mdrxy)) 💫 North star: The CLI becomes a thin client over a LangGraph API server. Today the CLI runs the agent...
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 15:54 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 84b4248
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 13:11 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 d806954
hwchase17 merged langchain-ai/deepagents#1369 · March 12, 2026 05:32 feat(sdk): allow specifying agent name param for general purpose sub-agent #1369 Summary Allow users to override the default general-purpose subagent configuration in create_deep_agent by passing a subagent...
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 04:02 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 45bf969
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 03:48 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 52c197d
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 03:44 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 29afe4a
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 12, 2026 03:32 1 commit to open-swe/598550c7-9d68-8519-3f24-5a92b98bea26 082b55d
TL;DR: We've added a tool to the Deep Agents SDK (Python) and CLI that allows models to compress their own context windows at opportune times. Motivation Context compression is an action that reduces the information in an agent’s working memory. Older messages are replaced by
hwchase17 pushed to open-swe/cf303d20-93a6-9fc2-a2f0-f252aeeba32e in langchain-ai/deepagents · March 11, 2026 16:39 1 commit to open-swe/cf303d20-93a6-9fc2-a2f0-f252aeeba32e 38202ae