Proposal for an ecosystem of tools to extend langchain

[Javakky]

Please discuss with me the best practices for creating and sharing tools on langchain. I am developing a library, langchain-tools-nicovideo, to combine with LangChain for obtaining information from nicovideo (Japanese video sharing site for otaku)

langchain already has several built-in tools, but by allowing developers experienced with data sources and API usage to freely create and share tools, we can expand the possibilities even further.

Could you please review and discuss the following proposed best practices for people who want to create and share their own tools?

1. A bulletin board for promoting homemade tools.

• This does not necessarily need to be a rich website. For example, by simply preparing a Markdown document (tools.md) with a list, developers of tools will promote their library naturally through pull requests.

<!-- GitHub or PyPI link -->
- [Javakky/langchain-tools-nicovideo](https://github.com/Javakky/langchain-tools-nicovideo) 

2. Prefix to declare that it is a tool.

• As a trial, I used langchain-tools as a prefix. By having developers of tools collaborate to add prefixes, the cost of finding tools on platforms such as PyPI will be greatly reduced. (langchain-tools is only provisional.)

3. By setting the configuration, you can easily add any tools to load_tools.

• As in the use case of my library, when injecting tools from the outside, you need to specify the tools and wrapper yourself. If users can find a correspondence between the name and class in the config of the library, they will no longer need to know the class name of individual tools.

tools = load_tools(["requests_all"], llm=llm)
tools.append(NicovideoQueryRun(api_wrapper=NicovideoSnapshotApiWrapper()))

[SwiftAdviser]

I think regarding the first point, we as a community can create an "awesome-langchain" repo with many libraries, like many other ecosystems do:

• https://github.com/ton-community/awesome-ton
• https://github.com/MystenLabs/awesome-move

Ah, here is an example of that: https://github.com/kyrolabs/awesome-langchain

[lambrou]

What about adding a tools section to https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain-hub - maybe this issue could be raised there.

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Hi, @Javakky! I'm Dosu, and I'm here to help the LangChain team manage their backlog. I wanted to let you know that we are marking this issue as stale.

From what I understand, you proposed the creation of an ecosystem of tools to extend LangChain, with suggestions such as implementing a bulletin board for promoting homemade tools and allowing users to easily add tools through configuration. SwiftAdviser suggested creating an "awesome-langchain" repository for libraries, and lambrou suggested adding a tools section to langchain-hub. You showed agreement with SwiftAdviser's suggestion and interest in lambrou's suggestion.

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