LangChain has released Deep Agents v0.5 for both Python and JavaScript, introducing two major features. First, async (non-blocking) subagents allow a supervisor agent to delegate long-running tasks to remote agents that execute independently, returning a task ID immediately. The supervisor gains five management tools (start, check, update, cancel, list) and can run multiple subagents concurrently. Remote agents must implement the Agent Protocol, LangChain's own open spec already underlying LangGraph Platform — chosen over ACP (lacks HTTP support) and A2A (less nimble for iteration). Second, multimodal filesystem support is expanded beyond images to PDFs, audio, video, and other file types, with automatic MIME type detection via the existing read_file tool.
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