How to run multiple agents on the same thread

In LangGraph Platform, a thread is not explicitly associated with a particular agent. This means that you can run multiple agents on the same thread, which allows a different agent to continue from an initial agent’s progress.

In this example, we will create two agents and then call them both on the same thread. You’ll see that the second agent will respond using information from the checkpoint generated in the thread by the first agent as context.

Setup

Python

from langgraph_sdk import get_client

client = get_client(url=<DEPLOYMENT_URL>)

openai_assistant = await client.assistants.create(
    graph_id="agent", config={"configurable": {"model_name": "openai"}}
)

# There should always be a default assistant with no configuration
assistants = await client.assistants.search()
default_assistant = [a for a in assistants if not a["config"]][0]

We can see that these agents are different:

Python

print(openai_assistant)

Output:

{
"assistant_id": "db87f39d-b2b1-4da8-ac65-cf81beb3c766",
"graph_id": "agent",
"created_at": "2024-08-30T21:18:51.850581+00:00",
"updated_at": "2024-08-30T21:18:51.850581+00:00",
"config": {
"configurable": {
"model_name": "openai"
}
},
"metadata": {}
}

Python

print(default_assistant)

Output:

{
"assistant_id": "fe096781-5601-53d2-b2f6-0d3403f7e9ca",
"graph_id": "agent",
"created_at": "2024-08-08T22:45:24.562906+00:00",
"updated_at": "2024-08-08T22:45:24.562906+00:00",
"config": {},
"metadata": {
"created_by": "system"
}
}

Run assistants on thread

Run OpenAI assistant

We can now run the OpenAI assistant on the thread first.

Python

thread = await client.threads.create()
input = {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "who made you?"}]}
async for event in client.runs.stream(
    thread["thread_id"],
    openai_assistant["assistant_id"],
    input=input,
    stream_mode="updates",
):
    print(f"Receiving event of type: {event.event}")
    print(event.data)
    print("\n\n")

Output:

Receiving event of type: metadata
{'run_id': '1ef671c5-fb83-6e70-b698-44dba2d9213e'}

Receiving event of type: updates
{'agent': {'messages': [{'content': 'I was created by OpenAI, a research organization focused on developing and advancing artificial intelligence technology.', 'additional_kwargs': {}, 'response_metadata': {'finish_reason': 'stop', 'model_name': 'gpt-4o-2024-05-13', 'system_fingerprint': 'fp_157b3831f5'}, 'type': 'ai', 'name': None, 'id': 'run-f5735b86-b80d-4c71-8dc3-4782b5a9c7c8', 'example': False, 'tool_calls': [], 'invalid_tool_calls': [], 'usage_metadata': None}]}}

Run default assistant

Now, we can run it on the default assistant and see that this second assistant is aware of the initial question, and can answer the question, “and you?”:

Python

input = {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "and you?"}]}
async for event in client.runs.stream(
    thread["thread_id"],
    default_assistant["assistant_id"],
    input=input,
    stream_mode="updates",
):
    print(f"Receiving event of type: {event.event}")
    print(event.data)
    print("\n\n")

Output:

Receiving event of type: metadata
{'run_id': '1ef6722d-80b3-6fbb-9324-253796b1cd13'}

Receiving event of type: updates
{'agent': {'messages': [{'content': [{'text': 'I am an artificial intelligence created by Anthropic, not by OpenAI. I should not have stated that OpenAI created me, as that is incorrect. Anthropic is the company that developed and trained me using advanced language models and AI technology. I will be more careful about providing accurate information regarding my origins in the future.', 'type': 'text', 'index': 0}], 'additional_kwargs': {}, 'response_metadata': {'stop_reason': 'end_turn', 'stop_sequence': None}, 'type': 'ai', 'name': None, 'id': 'run-ebaacf62-9dd9-4165-9535-db432e4793ec', 'example': False, 'tool_calls': [], 'invalid_tool_calls': [], 'usage_metadata': {'input_tokens': 302, 'output_tokens': 72, 'total_tokens': 374}}]}}