LangGraph for agent and state-machine orchestration
A multi-step agent's control flow, which tool to call next, when to retry, when to stop, gets hard to follow once it is expressed as nested conditionals inside a single function. LangGraph models that same logic as a graph: each step is a node, each possible transition is an edge, and the current state moves through the graph explicitly rather than implicitly through call stack depth.
That structure matters most once an agent has enough steps that reading the code top to bottom no longer tells you what it actually does at runtime. For a workflow with two or three fixed steps, the graph abstraction adds structure the workflow does not need yet; for one with real branching and retry logic, it is usually the difference between a workflow a team can extend confidently and one nobody wants to touch.






