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Deep Agents v0.7
LangChain · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- LangChain released Deep Agents v0.7, reducing base input tokens by 65% while maintaining performance through prompt and tool optimization.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building AI agents should care when optimizing token costs and context efficiency without sacrificing agent capability or reasoning quality.
- Watch out
- TodoListMiddleware is now opt-in rather than default; some use cases like long multi-step tasks may need it re-enabled for proper performance.
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