# test-crewai-project

This skill sets up deterministic, offline pytest coverage for CrewAI crews and flows. Use it to inspect prompts, guardrails, routing, and custom LLM behavior without an API key.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 614 installs · ★ 48
- Author: crewAIInc
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/crewAIInc/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/test-crewai-project/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-06
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/test-crewai-project

## What it does

The skill describes a deterministic CrewAI test harness. It uses `StubLLM` from `references/stub_llm.py` to supply fixed responses for text, structured results, and tool calls. Tests can inspect the prompts CrewAI assembled, context interpolation, Pydantic conversion, guardrail retries, and flow routing.

Its setup covers `pytest`, a socket-level network block, temporary output locations, and environment switches for telemetry and tracing. Install `pytest` with `uv add --dev pytest`, then run `uv run pytest`. Do not use `uv run test` as a pytest alias: in a scaffolded CrewAI project it runs `crewai test`, which starts a real-model test.

A custom `BaseLLM` must accept `from_task`, `from_agent`, and `response_model`, or use `**kwargs`; otherwise the first model call raises `TypeError`. Runs through `crewai test` need a provider key.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crewAIInc/skills --skill test-crewai-project -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crewAIInc/skills --skill test-crewai-project -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crewAIInc/skills --skill test-crewai-project -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install crewAIInc/skills test-crewai-project
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crewAIInc/skills --skill test-crewai-project -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/crewAIInc/skills --path skills/test-crewai-project
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crewAIInc/skills --skill test-crewai-project -a opencode
```

### 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/crewAIInc/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/test-crewai-project/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- test crews and flows without provider credentials
- inspect the prompts assembled by CrewAI
- cover guardrail acceptance and retry paths
- verify flow routing decisions
- catch accidental network access in tests

## Example prompts
- Set up offline CrewAI tests with `pytest` and the `StubLLM` from `references/stub_llm.py`.
- Write a test that checks the prompt CrewAI builds, task context, and flow routing.
- Review my custom `BaseLLM`, add support for `from_task`, `from_agent`, and `response_model`, then run `uv run pytest`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: test-crewai-project
description: "Deterministic, offline testing of CrewAI crews and flows with pytest: a stub BaseLLM (shipped in references/stub_llm.py) that drives text, structured output and tool calls with no API key, asserting on the prompts crewai built, testing guardrails and flow routing, what `crewai test` really does, event listeners for debugging, and the exact tracing/telemetry env var values. Use when writing tests for a crewai project, mocking or stubbing the LLM, writing a custom BaseLLM, seeing `TypeError: ... call() got an unexpected keyword argument 'from_task'`, `ValueError: OPENAI_API_KEY is required` in CI, `TraceGrantError` in pytest, running `crewai test`, adding a BaseEventListener, or setting CREWAI_TRACING_ENABLED / CREWAI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY / OTEL_SDK_DISABLED."
---

# Test a CrewAI Project

How to test crews and flows deterministically, without API keys, and how to debug real runs with events and traces.

Verified against crewai 1.15.22 and 1.15.23 on 2026-10-01.
Live-tested with real LLMs on 2026-10-01.
Run `crewai version` first; if the major/minor differs, re-verify the version-sensitive rows with the `ask-docs` skill.

---

## 1. Why tests need a stub LLM

A real LLM gives different text on every run, costs money, and needs a key. Every Agent without an explicit `llm` resolves to `gpt-4.1-mini` and fails at kickoff with `ValueError: OPENAI_API_KEY is required` when no key is set, so a CI run with no secrets cannot even start. You cannot assert on output you cannot predict.

A stub LLM fixes the responses, so assertions are exact. It keeps every real crewai code path: prompt building, `{placeholder}` interpolation, task context, tool execution, guardrail retries, pydantic conversion and flow routing. It also records every call, so you can assert on the prompts crewai built. That is where most bugs show up: a missing input, a dropped context, a tool that was never listed.

Test in tiers:

| Tier | Needs | What it proves |
|---|---|---|
| Unit: stub LLM, plain pytest | nothing | wiring, prompts, routing, parsing, guardrail logic |
| Guardrail truth tables | nothing | each guardrail accepts and rejects the right outputs |
| Real-model runs (`crewai test`, smoke kickoffs) | provider key, money | prompt quality; mark them `@pytest.mark.credentialed` and run offline suites with `pytest -m "not credentialed"` |

---

## 2. The custom BaseLLM contract in 1.15

`from crewai import BaseLLM`. The only abstract method is `call`. crewai passes `from_task`, `from_agent` and (for structured tasks) `response_model` as keyword arguments, so `call` must accept them.

| | `call` signature | Result |
|---|---|---|
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