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    *   [Tutorials](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/)
    *   [Build a Simple LLM Application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/llm_chain)
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    *   [Build a Local RAG Application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/local_rag)
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    *   [How to use LangChain tools](/v0.2/docs/how_to/tools_builtin)
    *   [How use a vector store to retrieve data](/v0.2/docs/how_to/vectorstore_retriever)
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New to LangChain or to LLM app development in general? Read this material to quickly get up and running.

### Basics[​](#basics "Direct link to Basics")

*   [Build a Simple LLM Application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/llm_chain)
*   [Build a Chatbot](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/chatbot)
*   [Build an Agent](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/agents)

### Working with external knowledge[​](#working-with-external-knowledge "Direct link to Working with external knowledge")

*   [Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/rag)
*   [Build a Conversational RAG Application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/qa_chat_history)
*   [Build a Question/Answering system over SQL data](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/sql_qa)
*   [Build a Query Analysis System](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/query_analysis)
*   [Build a local RAG application](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/local_rag)
*   [Build a Question Answering application over a Graph Database](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/graph)

### Specialized tasks[​](#specialized-tasks "Direct link to Specialized tasks")

*   [Build an Extraction Chain](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/extraction)
*   [Classify text into labels](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/classification)
*   [Summarize text](/v0.2/docs/tutorials/summarization)

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