Turning a coding-agent plugin into a standalone app: rewrite with LangGraph
orthogonal-ghost · reddit · 2026-08-28
The author built a job-search plugin that turns a coding agent into a hyper-personalized assistant — pulling postings from LinkedIn, Ashby and other ATS platforms, and letting users describe what they want in far more detail than keyword search. Converting it to a standalone web app proved far from trivial: the core pain is building UI atop an unpredictable agent, which sometimes asks questions via the native ask-user-question tool and sometimes via raw text — fine in direct use, painful to render properly. They ultimately re-implemented the plugin as a lightweight standalone agent with LangGraph StateGraph, featuring structured output, better-defined prompts, and a limited tool set.
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