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langchain/libs/langchain_v1
Nishitha M 15c38c8555 fix(langchain): switch summary format (#38171)
Part of https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/issues/2873

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`SummarizationMiddleware` now serializes the history passed to the
summarizer with XML formatting so URL-backed multimodal content remains
available in the prompt. The existing behavior avoided dumping raw
message metadata into the token budget, but the prefix serialization
path omitted image/audio/video URL blocks before the summary model saw
them.

## Changes

- Update `SummarizationMiddleware._create_summary` and
`SummarizationMiddleware._acreate_summary` to call
`get_buffer_string(..., format="xml")` for trimmed conversation history
- Preserve URL-backed multimodal blocks in the summary prompt while
still avoiding raw message metadata expansion
- Add sync and async unit coverage with a prompt-capturing chat model to
assert image URLs survive summarization input serialization

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Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <mason@langchain.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
2026-06-18 13:34:42 -04:00
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