Hello, I can’t find the correct way to increase the recursion limit when running my app on a LangSmith deployment. The with_config call below is honored when locally, but on the deployment, it still errors out when hitting the default limit of 25. app = builder.compile().with_config({“recursion_lim…

Update: On reading the LangGraph code, it would seem that setting the environment variable LANGGRAPH_DEFAULT_RECURSION_LIMIT should do the trick; however, that is not the case either. If recursion_limit is not explicitly passed at invoke time, the env variable’s default is ignored/overwritten with N…

Increasing recursion limit on deployment

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pawel-twardziak October 24, 2025, 12:11pm 3

hi @rkauf

have you passed through that post How to set recursion_limit for create_agent (v1)?? Is that helpful?

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Increasing recursion limit on deployment

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