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Agentic Tooling

AI agent frameworks, orchestration, tool ecosystems

Each prompt simulates a real developer scenario asking AI coding assistants to recommend a agentic tooling vendor. Below: which vendors were recommended, how well they addressed constraints, and the reasoning behind each recommendation.

Top Vendor

langsmith

2 of 4 recommendations

Responses

60

across 6 prompts

Constraint Coverage

10%

32 constraints tracked

Platforms Tested

claude_codecodex_cli

Vendor Leaderboard

#VendorRecommendationsShare
1langsmith2
50%
2braintrust2
50%

Prompt Breakdown

Production Support Agent with Tool Orchestration

LangChain ReAct agent hallucinates instead of retrying failed tools, gets stuck in loops

agent-01
10 responses
Pain point: agent hallucinates instead of retrying failed tools, no memory, gets stuck in loops
Stack:pythonflasklangchain
Asked about:langgraphcrewaiautogeninstructorpydantic-ai
Existing StackWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificCompatibilityStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-LedExisting Vendor
βœ— python flaskβœ— http api toolsβœ“ conversation memoryβœ“ loop detectionβœ“ human handoffβœ“ 200 concurrent
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

Automated Agent Evaluation with CI Gate

Manual review covers only 0.6% of conversations, no scoring agreement, can't detect regressions

agent-02
10 responses
Top: braintrust
Pain point: manual review of 0.6% sample, no scoring agreement, can't detect regressions
Stack:pythonlanggraphgpt4
Asked about:braintrustlangsmithragasdeepeval
Existing StackCompliance/SecurityWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-LedExisting Vendor
βœ— ci eval gateβœ— different eval modelβœ— pii in test dataβœ— budget 5 per runβœ“ regression detection
claude_codeRecommendedbraintrust

Braintrust wins for your use case:**

claude_codeRecommendedbraintrust

Braintrust wins for your use case:**

claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliRecommendedlangsmith
codex_cliRecommendedlangsmith

Enterprise RAG with Hybrid Retrieval and ACLs

Poor recall, coarse chunking, no access control, 6-hour weekly re-index of 10k documents

agent-03
10 responses
Pain point: poor recall, coarse chunking, no access control, 6-hour weekly re-index
Stack:nodejspineconegpt4kubernetesconfluencegoogle driveslack
Asked about:pineconellamaindexweaviateqdrantmilvusvectaracohere
Existing StackCompliance/SecurityWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificCompatibilityStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-LedAI/Vector/EmbeddingsExisting Vendor
βœ“ access controlβœ— incremental ingestionβœ“ hybrid retrievalβœ“ semantic chunkingβœ“ citations
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified

LangChain over LlamaIndex:** - Better TypeScript support and documentation - More flexible pipeline construction - Active community and enterprise adoption - Native support for Weaviate hybrid search

claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified

LangChain over LlamaIndex:** - Better TypeScript support and documentation - More flexible pipeline construction - Active community and enterprise adoption - Native support for Weaviate hybrid search

claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

This Stack Works Well For Your Constraints

codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

Prompt Versioning with A/B Testing and Rollback

12 prompt templates hardcoded in Python β€” broken prompt deployed twice, no rollback mechanism

agent-04
10 responses
Pain point: prompts hardcoded in Python, broken prompt deployed twice, no rollback
Stack:pythonfastapi
Asked about:humanlooppromptlayerportkeylangfusebraintrust
Existing StackWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-Led
βœ— python fastapiβœ“ prompt versioningβœ— ab testingβœ“ instant rollbackβœ— staging prod promotion
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

Gotchas: exact SDK return shape may vary; check the SDK docs for fields. return pl.templates.get(prompt_name, {"label": label}) ```

codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

Multi-Agent Content Pipeline with Feedback Loops

3-agent pipeline with raw string handoffs, no feedback loops, no parallelism, 45s total time

agent-05
10 responses
Pain point: no feedback loops, no parallelism, 45s pipeline time, raw string handoffs
Stack:nodejsopenai sdkanthropic sdk
Asked about:langgraphcrewaiautogen
Existing StackWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificCompatibilityStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-Led
βœ— nodejs typescriptβœ— multi modelβœ“ feedback loopsβœ“ parallel executionβœ— sub 20s pipelineβœ“ state inspection
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

LLM Guardrails: Injection, PII, and Output Filtering

False claims generated, system prompt extracted, PII cross-contamination between user sessions

agent-06
10 responses
Pain point: false claims generated, system prompt extracted, PII cross-contamination between users
Stack:pythonfastapiopenai sdkanthropic sdk
Asked about:nemo-guardrailsguardrails-aillm-guardrebuff
Existing StackCompliance/SecurityWorkload DefinedFramework-SpecificCompatibilityStarts from PainConstraint-LedWorkload-Led
βœ— sub 100ms latencyβœ— on premise dataβœ— multi languageβœ— middleware patternβœ“ pii redaction
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
claude_codeRecommendedNo primary vendor identified
codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

**LLM Guard** for the middleware layer, with a thin custom policy wrapper for system‑prompt protection, KB consistency checks, and multilingual tuning

codex_cliImplementedNo primary vendor identified

Constraint Coverage

human handoff4/1040%
semantic chunking4/1040%
parallel execution4/1040%
conversation memory3/1030%
loop detection2/1020%
access control2/1020%
hybrid retrieval2/1020%
citations2/1020%
feedback loops2/1020%
state inspection2/1020%
pii redaction2/1020%
200 concurrent1/1010%
regression detection1/1010%
prompt versioning1/1010%
instant rollback1/1010%
python flask0/100%
http api tools0/100%
ci eval gate0/100%
different eval model0/100%
pii in test data0/100%
budget 5 per run0/100%
incremental ingestion0/100%
python fastapi0/100%
ab testing0/100%
staging prod promotion0/100%
nodejs typescript0/100%
multi model0/100%
sub 20s pipeline0/100%
sub 100ms latency0/100%
on premise data0/100%
multi language0/100%
middleware pattern0/100%