# langsmith-custom-apps

Walks you through the LangSmith Custom App lifecycle: scaffolding, local dev, push, and handing the source to someone outside your org.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 398 installs · ★ 164
- Author: langchain-ai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-skills/tree/HEAD/config/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/langsmith-custom-apps

## What it does

A Custom App is a React/TypeScript UI that renders inside LangSmith and reads the LangSmith API through a host-injected bridge. The skill covers what `AGENTS.md` cannot: what happens before the app directory exists, and after the push.

The work runs through the `langsmith apps` CLI. `init` scaffolds the starter code, `dev` starts a live sandbox against LangSmith, `push` builds and uploads. The first push creates the app and links the directory via `.langsmith/app.json`; later pushes update that same app. When your CLI build has no `pull`, the skill shows how to fetch every file from the platform API with a short Python script.

You need the Enterprise plan and a workspace API key. `langsmith apps dev` captures one access token at startup and never refreshes it, so after roughly ten minutes calls start returning `401 Invalid token` — the app renders empty dropdowns and lists instead of an auth error. If a running app's data goes blank, check that first.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --skill langsmith-custom-apps -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --skill langsmith-custom-apps -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --skill langsmith-custom-apps -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install langchain-ai/langsmith-skills langsmith-custom-apps
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --skill langsmith-custom-apps -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --path config/skills/langsmith-custom-apps
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add langchain-ai/langsmith-skills --skill langsmith-custom-apps -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-skills/tree/HEAD/config/skills/langsmith-custom-apps/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- scaffold a Custom App and start a local sandbox
- fetch an existing app's source when the CLI has no pull
- replicate an app into another workspace
- verify app logic without opening a browser
- sanitize an app before sending it outside your org

## Example prompts
- scaffold a new Custom App with langsmith apps init and start dev
- pull the app source from the platform API since pull isn't available
- sanitize the app before I send it outside the org

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: langsmith-custom-apps
description: "INVOKE THIS SKILL when building, iterating on, copying, or sharing a LangSmith Custom App — a React/TypeScript UI that runs inside LangSmith and reads the LangSmith API. Covers the langsmith apps CLI, pulling an existing app's source, replicating an app into another workspace, verifying app logic without a browser, and sanitizing an app before sending it outside your org. Uses the langsmith CLI tool."
---

<oneliner>
Custom Apps are Enterprise-plan React UIs that render inside LangSmith and read the LangSmith API through a host-injected bridge. You build one locally with `langsmith apps`, push it, and it appears under **Custom Apps** in the workspace sidebar. This skill covers the work around the app directory: the CLI surface, the app lifecycle, verification, and sharing.
</oneliner>

<agents_md_is_authoritative>
`langsmith apps init` scaffolds an `AGENTS.md` next to the starter code. **That file is the authority on the in-app contract** — the `window.langsmith.call` bridge, the `render()` export the sandbox depends on, the filter DSL, and the endpoint menu. Read it before writing app code and follow it over anything remembered.

This skill deliberately does not restate it. Everything here is what `AGENTS.md` cannot cover: what happens before the directory exists, and after the app is pushed.
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<setup>
Custom Apps require the **Enterprise** plan. A push into a workspace without the feature fails with `this workspace doesn't support custom apps`.

```bash
export LANGSMITH_ENDPOINT=<your-langsmith-endpoint>   # only for self-hosted
export LANGSMITH_API_KEY=<workspace-api-key>
```

Three authentication traps, each of which presents as something other than an auth problem:

1. **`LANGSMITH_API_KEY` in the environment outranks the saved OAuth profile.** A stale exported key 403s every call while `langsmith auth info` still reports "authenticated". Run one-off commands as `env -u LANGSMITH_API_KEY -u LANGSMITH_WORKSPACE_ID langsmith …` when you mean to use the login.
2. **`LANGSMITH_WORKSPACE_ID` may point at a different workspace than the key**, which surfaces as a confusing 403 rather than a wrong-workspace error. Unset it and pass `--workspace <uuid>` explicitly.
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