# crewai

Designs multi-agent teams on CrewAI: roles, tasks, orchestration and process types. Useful once a single agent stops being enough.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code · 141 installs
- Author: davila7
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/crewai
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/crewai

## What it does

The skill turns Claude into an architect for CrewAI multi-agent systems. It covers agent definitions built from role, goal and backstory, task design with expected outputs, and chaining tasks so one feeds the next. Process types get their own section: sequential, hierarchical and parallel, along with memory and tool integration.

Templates come with it. The basic pattern splits config into `config/agents.yaml` and `config/tasks.yaml`, then a `@CrewBase` class with `@agent` and `@task` decorators assembles the crew. For harder cases there is a hierarchical process where a manager agent picks who handles what, and a planning mode that generates a step-by-step plan before the run and injects it into every task.

You need Python 3.10+, the `crewai` package and LLM API access. Everything here is Python, so a project in another language gets nothing from it. The skill also walks through common mistakes: vague roles, missing expected outputs, and crews that grow too large — past three to five agents the coordination overhead starts to outweigh the gain.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **claude-code-templates**
```bash
npx claude-code-templates@latest --skill ai-research/crewai
```

2. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill crewai -a claude-code
```

3. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/crewai/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/crewai/

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/crewai/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/crewai/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install davila7/claude-code-templates crewai
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/crewai/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --path cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/crewai
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/crewai/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/crewai

## When to use it
- define agents with roles and goals instead of one generic prompt
- chain tasks so each one consumes the previous output
- pick between sequential and hierarchical processes
- configure crew memory and wire up external tools
- break a complex workflow into steps with planning

## Example prompts
- Build a crew of three agents: researcher, analyst and writer
- Switch this crew to a hierarchical process with a manager
- Turn on planning and show me the plan before the run

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