LangChain Reference home pageLangChain ReferenceLangChain Reference
  • GitHub
  • Main Docs
Deep Agents
LangChain
LangGraph
Integrations
LangSmith
  • Overview
  • MCP Adapters
    • Overview
    • Agents
    • Callbacks
    • Chains
    • Chat models
    • Embeddings
    • Evaluation
    • Globals
    • Hub
    • Memory
    • Output parsers
    • Retrievers
    • Runnables
    • LangSmith
    • Storage
    Standard Tests
    Text Splitters
    ⌘I

    LangChain Assistant

    Ask a question to get started

    Enter to send•Shift+Enter new line

    Menu

    MCP Adapters
    OverviewAgentsCallbacksChainsChat modelsEmbeddingsEvaluationGlobalsHubMemoryOutput parsersRetrieversRunnablesLangSmithStorage
    Standard Tests
    Text Splitters
    Language
    Theme
    Pythonlangchain-classicmemorysummary_buffer
    Module●Since v1.0

    summary_buffer

    Classes

    deprecatedclass
    BaseChatMemory

    Abstract base class for chat memory.

    ATTENTION This abstraction was created prior to when chat models had native tool calling capabilities. It does NOT support native tool calling capabilities for chat models and will fail SILENTLY if used with a chat model that has native tool calling.

    DO NOT USE THIS ABSTRACTION FOR NEW CODE.

    deprecatedclass
    SummarizerMixin

    Mixin for summarizer.

    deprecatedclass
    ConversationSummaryBufferMemory

    Buffer with summarizer for storing conversation memory.

    Provides a running summary of the conversation together with the most recent messages in the conversation under the constraint that the total number of tokens in the conversation does not exceed a certain limit.

    View source on GitHub