OpenAI's own agent framework is notable for how little it does. Four concepts, a short learning curve, and a very direct relationship with one provider.
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AGENT FRAMEWORKS
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They are not competitors, and picking between them is a category error. LangChain gives you the parts; LangGraph decides the order they run in — and lets you see it.
Authored by: Alpaca MangoREAD DOC — LANGCHAIN VS LANGGRAPH: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?Google ships two things that sound like the same thing. ADK is about agents and their orchestration; Genkit is about building AI features into an application.
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Often, no. A while loop, a switch statement and a well-typed tool schema will take you further than the discourse suggests — and leave you with code you can debug.
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