crewai-core
Shared utilities for CrewAI — version, paths, user-data, telemetry, printer.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No—install crewai-core only as a dependency of the main crewai package. It is a foundational utility with no direct user-facing API; installing it standalone offers no benefit. If you are building multi-agent workflows, install crewai instead, which will pull in crewai-core automatically. Verify the unclear license terms before use in restricted contexts.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python >=3.10 <3.14; intended as a dependency of crewai rather than direct use.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution.
- Active maintenance with a recent release and high repository engagement (57079 stars), though the package is a foundational utility rather than a standalone tool.
License · maintenance · safety
(unclear) — License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is available in the package metadata. Verify licensing terms before use in proprietary or restricted contexts.
last release 2026-08-14 (0 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 57,079 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 4,168,935 downloads/mo, #2,369 on PyPI
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pip install crewai-core
from crewai_core import __version__
print(__version__)- Whether crewai-core is meant for direct application use or exclusively as an internal dependency of the main crewai package.
- Specific telemetry and observability capabilities beyond the summary description.
- License terms and conditions for use in commercial or proprietary projects.
What it is and what it does
CrewAI Core is a foundational utility package that supplies shared infrastructure for the CrewAI multi-agent framework. It handles version management, user data paths, telemetry collection and export (via OpenTelemetry), and configuration printing. The package depends on cryptography, JWT handling, HTTP clients, and structured data validation through Pydantic, suggesting it manages authentication, API communication, and configuration serialization for agent workflows.
This is a low-level component designed to support CrewAI's Crews (autonomous agent teams) and Flows (event-driven workflows) rather than a standalone tool. It provides the plumbing that allows agents to report metrics, logs, and traces to observability systems, and manages paths and versioning across the framework. Most developers will encounter it as a transitive dependency when installing the main crewai package.
Use it for
- Building observability and monitoring into multi-agent systems by leveraging the telemetry infrastructure.
- Accessing shared configuration, version info, and user data paths when extending or integrating CrewAI.
- Enabling OpenTelemetry-based tracing and metrics export for production agent deployments.
- Managing authentication and secure communication in agent workflows through cryptography and JWT utilities.
Worth the install?
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No—install crewai-core only as a dependency of the main crewai package.
It is a foundational utility with no direct user-facing API; installing it standalone offers no benefit. If you are building multi-agent workflows, install crewai instead, which will pull in crewai-core automatically. Verify the unclear license terms before use in restricted contexts.
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crewai-core on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a recent release and high repository engagement (57079 stars), though the package is a foundational utility rather than a standalone tool.
Requires Python >=3.10 <3.14; intended as a dependency of crewai rather than direct use.
License in practice
License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is available in the package metadata. Verify licensing terms before use in proprietary or restricted contexts.
Quickstart
pip install crewai-core
from crewai_core import __version__
print(__version__)Verify before relying
- Whether crewai-core is meant for direct application use or exclusively as an internal dependency of the main crewai package.
- Specific telemetry and observability capabilities beyond the summary description.
- License terms and conditions for use in commercial or proprietary projects.
Package facts
| License | Not declared unclear |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <3.14,>=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 12 packagesappdirscryptographyhttpxopentelemetry-apiopentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-httpopentelemetry-sdkpackagingportalockerpydanticpyjwtrichtomli |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 0 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 4,168,935 / month, #2,369 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
Evidence: crewai_core-1.15.16-py3-none-any.whl
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