diff --git a/.changeset/blue-humans-rhyme.md b/.changeset/blue-humans-rhyme.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d70b46439a51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/blue-humans-rhyme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"langchain": patch
+---
+
+fix(langchain): respect version:"v1" in afterModel router's pending tool call path
diff --git a/libs/langchain/src/agents/ReactAgent.ts b/libs/langchain/src/agents/ReactAgent.ts
index 8400a69f1ac0..762f5acf59d0 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/src/agents/ReactAgent.ts
+++ b/libs/langchain/src/agents/ReactAgent.ts
@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ export class ReactAgent<
         (call) => !toolMessages.some((m) => m.tool_call_id === call.id)
       );
       if (pendingToolCalls && pendingToolCalls.length > 0) {
+        /**
+         * v1: route the full message to the ToolNode; it filters already-processed
+         * calls internally and runs the remaining ones via Promise.all.
+         * v2: dispatch each pending call as a separate Send task.
+         */
+        if (this.#toolBehaviorVersion === "v1") {
+          return TOOLS_NODE_NAME;
+        }
         return pendingToolCalls.map(
           (toolCall) =>
             new Send(TOOLS_NODE_NAME, { ...state, lg_tool_call: toolCall })
diff --git a/libs/langchain/src/agents/tests/tools.test.ts b/libs/langchain/src/agents/tests/tools.test.ts
index 4f87d5b9079e..a6f6a3f061b0 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/src/agents/tests/tools.test.ts
+++ b/libs/langchain/src/agents/tests/tools.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { tool, ToolRuntime } from "@langchain/core/tools";
 import { HumanMessage, ToolMessage } from "@langchain/core/messages";
 import { InMemoryStore } from "@langchain/langgraph";
 
-import { createAgent } from "../index.js";
+import { createAgent, createMiddleware } from "../index.js";
 import { FakeToolCallingModel } from "./utils.js";
 
 describe("tools", () => {
@@ -69,4 +69,114 @@ describe("tools", () => {
       "The weather in Tokyo is sunny. The foo is bar and the bar is baz."
     );
   });
+
+  describe("version: 'v1' — parallel tool execution via Promise.all", () => {
+    it("runs all tool calls from a single AIMessage in the same ToolNode invocation", async () => {
+      const invocationOrder: string[] = [];
+
+      const model = new FakeToolCallingModel({
+        toolCalls: [
+          [
+            { type: "tool_call", name: "tool_a", args: {}, id: "call_a" },
+            { type: "tool_call", name: "tool_b", args: {}, id: "call_b" },
+          ],
+          // second LLM turn returns a plain text response to end the agent loop
+          [],
+        ],
+      });
+
+      const toolA = tool(
+        async () => {
+          invocationOrder.push("tool_a");
+          return "result_a";
+        },
+        { name: "tool_a", description: "tool a", schema: z.object({}) }
+      );
+
+      const toolB = tool(
+        async () => {
+          invocationOrder.push("tool_b");
+          return "result_b";
+        },
+        { name: "tool_b", description: "tool b", schema: z.object({}) }
+      );
+
+      const agent = createAgent({
+        model,
+        tools: [toolA, toolB],
+        version: "v1",
+      });
+
+      const result = await agent.invoke({
+        messages: [new HumanMessage("run both tools")],
+      });
+
+      // Both tools must have been called
+      expect(invocationOrder).toContain("tool_a");
+      expect(invocationOrder).toContain("tool_b");
+
+      // Both ToolMessages must appear in the conversation
+      const toolMessages = result.messages.filter(ToolMessage.isInstance);
+      expect(toolMessages).toHaveLength(2);
+      expect(toolMessages.map((m) => m.tool_call_id).sort()).toEqual(
+        ["call_a", "call_b"].sort()
+      );
+    });
+
+    it("runs pending tool calls via ToolNode (not Send) when afterModel middleware is present", async () => {
+      const invocationOrder: string[] = [];
+
+      const model = new FakeToolCallingModel({
+        toolCalls: [
+          [
+            { type: "tool_call", name: "tool_a", args: {}, id: "call_a" },
+            { type: "tool_call", name: "tool_b", args: {}, id: "call_b" },
+          ],
+          [],
+        ],
+      });
+
+      const toolA = tool(
+        async () => {
+          invocationOrder.push("tool_a");
+          return "result_a";
+        },
+        { name: "tool_a", description: "tool a", schema: z.object({}) }
+      );
+
+      const toolB = tool(
+        async () => {
+          invocationOrder.push("tool_b");
+          return "result_b";
+        },
+        { name: "tool_b", description: "tool b", schema: z.object({}) }
+      );
+
+      // afterModel middleware forces the #createAfterModelRouter code path
+      const afterModelMiddleware = createMiddleware({
+        name: "afterModelMiddleware",
+        afterModel: async ({ messages }) => ({ messages }),
+      });
+
+      const agent = createAgent({
+        model,
+        tools: [toolA, toolB],
+        middleware: [afterModelMiddleware],
+        version: "v1",
+      });
+
+      const result = await agent.invoke({
+        messages: [new HumanMessage("run both tools")],
+      });
+
+      expect(invocationOrder).toContain("tool_a");
+      expect(invocationOrder).toContain("tool_b");
+
+      const toolMessages = result.messages.filter(ToolMessage.isInstance);
+      expect(toolMessages).toHaveLength(2);
+      expect(toolMessages.map((m) => m.tool_call_id).sort()).toEqual(
+        ["call_a", "call_b"].sort()
+      );
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/libs/langchain/src/agents/types.ts b/libs/langchain/src/agents/types.ts
index 36693eb35b73..d42162c57583 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/src/agents/types.ts
+++ b/libs/langchain/src/agents/types.ts
@@ -805,10 +805,18 @@ export type CreateAgentParams<
    * Determines the version of the graph to create.
    *
    * Can be one of
-   * - `"v1"`: The tool node processes a single message. All tool calls in the message are
-   *           executed in parallel within the tool node.
-   * - `"v2"`: The tool node processes a single tool call. Tool calls are distributed across
-   *           multiple instances of the tool node using the Send API.
+   * - `"v1"`: The tool node processes the full `AIMessage` containing all tool calls. All tool
+   *           calls are executed concurrently via `Promise.all` inside a single graph node.
+   *           **Choose v1** when your tools invoke sub-graphs or other long-running async work
+   *           and you need true parallelism — the `Promise.all` approach is unaffected by
+   *           LangGraph's per-task checkpoint serialisation.
+   *
+   * - `"v2"`: Each tool call is dispatched as an independent graph task using the Send API.
+   *           Tasks are scheduled in parallel by LangGraph, but when tools invoke sub-graphs
+   *           the underlying checkpoint writes can cause effective serialisation, making
+   *           concurrent tool calls execute sequentially. v2 is the better choice when you
+   *           need per-tool-call checkpointing, independent fault isolation, or `interrupt()`
+   *           support inside individual tool calls.
    *
    * @default `"v2"`
    */