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CrewAI — AI Glossary

A multi-agent framework organizing agents into task-oriented crews with defined roles, goals, and delegation patterns.

Overview

CrewAI (2024) abstracts multi-agent systems as a crew of role-defined agents collaborating on a shared goal. Each agent has a role, goal, backstory, and toolset. Tasks are assigned sequentially or in parallel; a manager agent can dynamically delegate. CrewAI Enterprise adds observability, guardrails, and deployment.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is CrewAI?

A multi-agent framework organizing agents into task-oriented crews with defined roles, goals, and delegation patterns.

What concepts are related to CrewAI?

Closely related concepts include autogen, worker agent, dag.