CrewAI
Role-based multi-agent orchestration
- Open source
- Agent Frameworks
What it is
CrewAI structures multi-agent systems around roles, goals and tasks: you declare agents with a purpose and a toolset, then compose them into a crew that executes sequentially or hierarchically. The framework handles delegation between agents and passes each task’s output forward as context for the next. The result is a declarative description of who does what.
Best for
Workflows that decompose cleanly into distinct specialist roles with a clear hand-off order between them.
Where it falls short
Role-play framing adds model calls without necessarily adding accuracy; many problems are cheaper and more reliable as one agent with good tools.
Characteristics
- multi-agent
- delegation
- task-graph
- python
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