crewAIInc/crewAI
Role-based multi-agent orchestration: crews of agents with roles, goals, and tasks, optimized for approachability over control-flow precision. Agentiquette scores it 76/100 (A-tier), methodology v1.0, scored 2026-07-07.
Key facts
| Category | Orchestration framework |
|---|---|
| License | MIT |
| Maintainer | CrewAI Inc |
| Compatible agents | generic |
| File patterns | |
| Triggering | manual-reference |
| GitHub metrics | 55,067 stars · 7,736 forks · 616 open issues (fetched 2026-07-07) |
| Last commit | 2026-07-07 |
| Created | 2023-10-27 |
Editorial analysis
The most approachable entry point in the class, and adoption reflects it. The role/crew metaphor is genuinely good pedagogy and genuinely costly engineering: verification and recovery live inside prose task descriptions rather than checkable structure. Fine for prototypes; teams that stay grow into flows or migrate to graphier tools.
Risks
Role metaphors read well and hide control flow; production teams routinely rediscover the need for the explicitness this framework abstracts away.
Evidence notes: Leverage: fastest zero-to-multi-agent path measured by docs walkthrough. Reliability: task outcomes are described, not verified, by default. Safety: guardrail hooks exist, defaults are permissive.
Install and first run
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crewAIInc/crewAI scores 76/100 (A-tier) on Agentiquette's methodology v1.0, scored 2026-07-07. Strengths and weaknesses are in the editorial analysis; the score is explained dimension by dimension in the scorecard.
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Role-based multi-agent orchestration: crews of agents with roles, goals, and tasks, optimized for approachability over control-flow precision.
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Last commit 2026-07-07, 616 open issues at fetch time (2026-07-07). Maintenance is scored at 90 of 100.
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