Index live · v1.7.0 · SEP 12 2026

CrewAI

Role-based multi-agent orchestration — agents as a crew with assigned responsibilities.

Overview

CrewAI organises multi-agent work around roles and goals rather than graphs. You describe a researcher, a writer, and a reviewer, give each a backstory and tools, and the framework sequences their collaboration. The abstraction is approachable enough that non-engineers can reason about it, which is much of its appeal.

Why it's indexed

The lowest-friction way to express a multi-agent process when the process is genuinely role-shaped.

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At a glance

Vendor
CrewAI
License
MIT
Deployment
Hybrid
Languages
Python
Pricing model
Open source · Enterprise

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Tags

multi-agentrole-basedcollaborationpython

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