crewai-tools

What it is and what it does

CrewAI Tools is a companion library to the CrewAI framework that equips AI agents with a toolkit for real-world tasks. It includes built-in tools for file I/O, web scraping, database queries (MySQL, MongoDB, Qdrant, Weaviate), API calls (Serper, Exa), and AI integrations (DALL-E, vision models). You can also define custom tools by subclassing BaseTool or using a @tool decorator.

The library also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing agents to access hundreds of community-built tools from MCP servers via a managed adapter. This makes it a bridge between CrewAI agents and external services, reducing boilerplate and letting you focus on agent orchestration rather than tool plumbing.

Use it for:

• Equip a CrewAI agent with web scraping and file-reading tools to gather and process research data automatically.
• Build a multi-agent workflow that queries databases and APIs in parallel to aggregate real-time information.
• Connect a CrewAI agent to an MCP server to unlock domain-specific tools (e.g., PubMed search) without writing custom integrations.
• Create a custom tool by subclassing BaseTool or decorating a function, then inject it into an agent for specialized business logic.
• Automate document processing by combining FileReadTool, PyMuPDF, and python-docx to extract and transform content.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

CrewAI Tools provides a collection of ready-made and custom tools that extend CrewAI agents with capabilities for file management, web scraping, database integration, API access, and AI-powered operations.

Yes, if you are already using CrewAI and need to extend agents with external integrations. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and offers both pre-built and custom tool patterns. However, verify the license before production use, as it is currently undeclared in the metadata.

Install

crewai-tools on PyPI

pip install crewai-tools

uv add crewai-tools

poetry add crewai-tools

Installing crewai-tools

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel and active maintenance—released 2026-08-14 with 57078 repository stars. Eight runtime dependencies (beautifulsoup4, crewai, pymupdf, python-docx, pytube, requests, tiktoken, youtube-transcript-api) are all widely used libraries.

License in practice

License treatment is unclear; the package has no declared SPDX identifier or raw license field in its metadata. Verify the actual license before deploying in commercial or restricted environments.

Quickstart

pip install crewai-tools

from crewai_tools import FileReadTool, ScrapeWebsiteTool
from crewai import Agent

tools = [FileReadTool(), ScrapeWebsiteTool()]
agent = Agent(role="researcher", goal="gather data", tools=tools)

Requires Python 3.10 or later (and less than 3.14). CrewAI itself must be installed as a runtime dependency.

Verify before relying

• Whether the package is distributed under an open-source license and which one (MIT, Apache 2.0, etc.)
• Stability guarantees or breaking-change policy across minor versions
• Performance characteristics when using MCP server integrations with large tool sets

Package facts

Evidence: crewai_tools-1.15.16-py3-none-any.whl

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