---
title: "LangChain"
description: "Use mcp-use tools, resources, and prompts directly with LangChain agents"
tag: "New"
icon: "https://cdn.mcp-use.com/langchain.svg"
---

# Using mcp-use with LangChain

The LangChain adapter allows you to seamlessly integrate tools, resources, and prompts from any MCP server with LangChain agents. This enables you to use `mcp-use` as a comprehensive tool provider for your LangChain-powered agents.

## How it Works

The `LangChainAdapter` converts not only tools but also resources and prompts from your active MCP servers into a format compatible with LangChain's tool-calling feature. It maps each of these MCP constructs to a callable function that the LangChain agent can request.

-   **Tools** are converted directly to LangChain tools.
-   **Resources** are converted into functions that take no arguments and read the resource's content.
-   **Prompts** are converted into functions that accept the prompt's arguments.

The adapter maintains a mapping of these generated functions to their actual execution logic, allowing you to easily call them when requested by the agent.

## Step-by-Step Guide

Here's how to use the adapter to provide MCP tools, resources, and prompts to a LangChain agent.

<Note>
Before starting, install the LangChain SDK:
```bash
uv pip install langchain
```
</Note>

<Steps>
    <Step name="Initialize MCPClient">
        First, set up your `MCPClient` with the desired MCP servers. This part of the process is the same as any other `mcp-use` application.

        ```python
        from mcp_use import MCPClient

        config = {
            "mcpServers": {
                "airbnb": {"command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@openbnb/mcp-server-airbnb", "--ignore-robots-txt"]},
            }
        }

        client = MCPClient(config=config)
        ```
    </Step>

    <Step name="Create the LangChain Adapter">
        Next, instantiate the `LangChainAdapter`. This adapter will be responsible for converting MCP constructs into a format LangChain can understand.

        ```python
        from mcp_use.agents.adapters import LangChainAdapter

        # Creates the adapter for LangChain's format
        adapter = LangChainAdapter()
        ```
        <Tip>
        You can pass a `disallowed_tools` list to the adapter's constructor to prevent specific tools, resources, or prompts from being exposed to the model.
        </Tip>
    </Step>

    <Step name="Generate LangChain-Compatible Tools">
        Use the `create_all` method on the adapter to inspect all connected MCP servers and generate a list of tools, resources and prompts in the LangChain tool format.

        ```python
        # Convert tools from active connectors to the LangChain's format
        # this will populates the list of tools, resources and prompts
        await adapter.create_all(client)

        # If you decided to create all tools (list concatenation)
        langchain_tools = adapter.tools + adapter.resources + adapter.prompts
        ```

        This list will include tools generated from your MCP tools, resources, and prompts.

        <Tip>
        If you don't want to create all tools, you can call single functions. For example, if you only want to use tools and resources, you can do the following:

        ```python
        await adapter.create_tools(client)
        await adapter.create_resources(client)

        # Then, you can decide which ones to use:
        langchain_tools = adapter.tools + adapter.resources
        ```
        </Tip>
    </Step>

    <Step name="Create and Run the LangChain Agent">
        Now, you can use the generated `langchain_tools` to create a LangChain agent. The agent will use the descriptions of these tools to decide if it needs to call any of them to answer the user's query.

        ```python
        from langchain.agents import create_agent
        from langchain.chat_models import init_chat_model

        # Create chat model
        model = init_chat_model(
            "gpt-5.5-mini", temperature=0.5, timeout=10, max_tokens=1000
        )
        # Create the LangChain agent
        agent = create_agent(
            model=model,
            tools=langchain_tools,
            system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant",
        )

        # Run the agent
        result = await agent.ainvoke(
            {
                "messages": [
                    {
                        "role": "user",
                        "content": "Please tell me the cheapest hotel for two people in Trapani.",
                    }
                ]
            }
        )

        print(result)
        ```
    </Step>
</Steps>

## Complete Example

For reference, here is the complete, runnable code for integrating mcp-use with LangChain.

```python
import asyncio
from dataclasses import dataclass

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from langchain.agents import create_agent
from langchain.chat_models import init_chat_model

from mcp_use import MCPClient
from mcp_use.agents.adapters import LangChainAdapter

# This example demonstrates how to use our integration
# adapters to use MCP tools and convert to the right format.
# In particularly, this example uses the LangChainAdapter.

load_dotenv()


# We use a dataclass here, but Pydantic models are also supported.
@dataclass
class ResponseFormat:
    """Response schema for the agent."""

    # AirBnb response (available dates, prices, and relevant information)
    relevant_response: str


async def main():
    config = {
        "mcpServers": {
            "airbnb": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": ["-y", "@openbnb/mcp-server-airbnb", "--ignore-robots-txt"],
            },
        }
    }

    try:
        client = MCPClient(config=config)

        # Creates the adapter for LangChain's format
        adapter = LangChainAdapter()

        # Convert tools from active connectors to the LangChain's format
        await adapter.create_all(client)

        # List concatenation (if you loaded all tools)
        langchain_tools = adapter.tools + adapter.resources + adapter.prompts

        # Create chat model
        model = init_chat_model(
            "gpt-5.5-mini", temperature=0.5, timeout=10, max_tokens=1000
        )
        # Create the LangChain agent
        agent = create_agent(
            model=model,
            tools=langchain_tools,
            system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant",
            response_format=ResponseFormat,
        )

        # Run the agent
        result = await agent.ainvoke(
            {
                "messages": [
                    {
                        "role": "user",
                        "content": "Please tell me the cheapest hotel for two people in Trapani.",
                    }
                ]
            }
        )

        print(result["structured_response"])
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}")
        raise e


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
```
