feat(cookbook): add crash-resilient LangGraph financial analyst

[wangshen-tech]

Description

Adds a real-world LangGraph financial analyst cookbook using yfinance, DeepSeek, and LetItLoop @durable_async checkpoints.

Closes #82

Architecture

The compiled async StateGraph runs four durable nodes:

START
  -> fetch_market_data
  -> compute_indicators
  -> generate_investment_memo
  -> generate_report
  -> END

Every node executes through await async_step(...), so completed JSON-safe outputs are committed to LetItLoop's WAL before the graph advances.

Installation and usage

python -m pip install -e ".[financial-agent]"

# Deterministic and free
python examples/cookbooks/langgraph_financial_analyst.py --ticker AAPL --offline
python examples/cookbooks/langgraph_financial_analyst.py --ticker AAPL --offline --demo

# Live yfinance + DeepSeek
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your-key"
python examples/cookbooks/langgraph_financial_analyst.py \
  --ticker AAPL \
  --model deepseek:deepseek-v4-flash \
  --live

API keys are read only from the environment and are never persisted in WAL or the independent call log.

SIGKILL recovery proof

On POSIX, the demo sends a real SIGKILL immediately after generate_investment_memo returns from its durable step. Windows uses exit 137 because it has no POSIX SIGKILL.

At the interruption point, WAL contains exactly:

• fetch_market_data
• compute_indicators
• generate_investment_memo

generate_report is still absent. A separate fsynced JSONL receipt log audits successful market and LLM calls independently of WAL.

Observed live AAPL + DeepSeek demo:

Metric	After SIGKILL	After recovery	Fully cached rerun
Market fetch calls	1	1	1
LLM calls	1	1	1
Provider-reported tokens	1059	1059	1059

This demonstrates zero re-fetching, zero duplicate LLM calls, and 0% duplicate token consumption for already committed steps. These are the live provider's actual usage fields; offline mode uses deterministic simulated accounting without making a paid request.

The guarantee is intentionally scoped to committed steps. If a process dies after an external provider receives a request but before that result is committed, exactly-once billing requires provider-side idempotency and is not claimed here.

<1ms measurement scope

The demo initializes and loads WAL first, then times only these in-memory calls:

await async_step("fetch_market_data", must_not_execute)
await async_step("compute_indicators", must_not_execute)
await async_step("generate_investment_memo", must_not_execute)

The fallback callback raises if any underlying function executes. Python startup, imports, WAL initialization, graph construction, and the unfinished report node are excluded.

Observed locally:

• fetch_market_data: 0.006ms
• compute_indicators: 0.002ms
• generate_investment_memo: 0.001ms

CI uses a relaxed 25ms ceiling to avoid timing flakes while still strictly verifying that the callbacks are not executed.

Coverage

• One year of yfinance history and JSON-safe fundamentals
• SMA20, SMA50, Wilder RSI14, and MACD(12, 26, 9)
• Real StateGraph.compile() + await graph.ainvoke(...)
• DeepSeek via the repository's orchestrator.llm.call_llm
• Offline injectable market and LLM fakes
• Normal run and fully cached rerun
• Real post-memo SIGKILL recovery
• No repeated market fetch, LLM call, or token usage after recovery
• Ticker-isolated WAL identities
• Clear yfinance and LLM failure messages

Verification

pytest tests/test_cookbooks.py -q
13 passed

ruff check examples/cookbooks/langgraph_financial_analyst.py tests/test_cookbooks.py
All checks passed!

ruff format --check examples/cookbooks/langgraph_financial_analyst.py tests/test_cookbooks.py
2 files already formatted

pytest -m fast -q
518 passed, 4 skipped

pytest
1496 passed, 7 skipped

A live AAPL + DeepSeek post-memo SIGKILL demo completed successfully with exit code 0 and 1059 provider-reported tokens before and after recovery. No API key is included in this change.

[sdageltc]

Hi @wangshen-tech! Thank you so much for putting together this comprehensive LangGraph financial analyst cookbook using yfinance and DeepSeek! 🚀

The cookbook logic and test structure look great. However, this branch was created from an older base commit before our recent v0.5.2 Multi-Framework Adapter Suite release (letitloop/adapters/). As a result, merging directly would cause conflicts and remove existing adapter files.

Could you please rebase your branch against the latest origin/main?

git fetch origin
git checkout feat/issue-82-financial-agent
git rebase origin/main
# If any merge conflicts arise in README.md / CHANGELOG.md, resolve them keeping both the adapters and your new cookbook section
git push --force-with-lease

Once rebased, we will run the test matrix and merge immediately. Thank you for the awesome contribution!

[sdageltc]

Thank you @wangshen-tech! Clean rebase against main, and all 13 cookbook tests pass with 100% success. Merging now! 🚀