🚀 Looking to Contribute? Start Here!

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Welcome to the LangChain community!

🎉 We're excited that you're interested in contributing. Whether you're fixing a bug, improving our docs, or adding a new feature, we'd love your help. This post is your go-to guide for getting started.

Get started

👉 Read our full contributing guide:

LangChain Contributor Docs

This guide covers:

• Repository structure
• Setting up your development environment
• Making your first pull request
• Review process and merge guidelines
• Code formatting, testing, and linting requirements

Ways to Contribute

There are many ways to make a meaningful impact:

Code Contributions

• Add features or integrations
• Improve infrastructure or tooling
• Fix bugs or refactor code

Documentation Improvements

• Fix typos or broken links
• Add new examples or clarify concepts
• Improve existing explanations

Tests & Standards

• Write or improve tests for existing code
• Ensure new integrations pass standard tests

Finding Issues

Check out our curated issue labels:

• help wanted
• good first issue

If you're picking up an issue:

• Please ask a maintainer to assign the issue to you
• If it's unclear or out-of-date, feel free to ask questions or update it.

When opening new issues:

• Keep them focused and modular
• Link related issues instead of combining them

💬 Community Support

Need help or want to collaborate?

• 💭 LangChain Forum
• 📢 Community Slack

Feel free to ask questions, propose features, or even help others!

🛠 Developer Tips

• We aim for a simple, streamlined dev setup.
• Code formatting and linting are enforced – but we're happy to help if you get stuck.
• If you hit any issues setting up your environment, reach out via Slack or the forum.

Thank you!

Thank you for being here — we appreciate every single contributor.
Happy coding! 🧑‍💻👩‍💻
— The LangChain Team