feat: deprecate CrewAgentExecutor, default Crew agents to AgentExecutor#5745
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1041-1068:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winHonor
executor_classwhen creating the executor.Line 1045 hard-codes
AgentExecutor, soexecutor_class=CrewAgentExecutorno longer has any effect even though the validator, alias map, and deprecation contract say that path still works. That silently changes behavior for existing callers and breaks the intended compatibility window.Possible fix
- self.agent_executor = AgentExecutor( - llm=self.llm, - task=task, - agent=self, - crew=self.crew, - tools=parsed_tools, - prompt=prompt, - original_tools=raw_tools, - stop_words=stop_words, - max_iter=self.max_iter, - tools_handler=self.tools_handler, - tools_names=get_tool_names(parsed_tools), - tools_description=render_text_description_and_args(parsed_tools), - step_callback=self.step_callback, - function_calling_llm=self.function_calling_llm, - respect_context_window=self.respect_context_window, - request_within_rpm_limit=rpm_limit_fn, - callbacks=[TokenCalcHandler(self._token_process)], - response_model=( - task.response_model or task.output_pydantic or task.output_json - ) - if task - else None, - ) + executor_cls = self.executor_class + executor_kwargs = { + "llm": self.llm, + "task": task, + "agent": self, + "crew": self.crew, + "tools": parsed_tools, + "prompt": prompt, + "original_tools": raw_tools, + "max_iter": self.max_iter, + "tools_handler": self.tools_handler, + "tools_names": get_tool_names(parsed_tools), + "tools_description": render_text_description_and_args(parsed_tools), + "step_callback": self.step_callback, + "function_calling_llm": self.function_calling_llm, + "respect_context_window": self.respect_context_window, + "request_within_rpm_limit": rpm_limit_fn, + "callbacks": [TokenCalcHandler(self._token_process)], + "response_model": ( + task.response_model or task.output_pydantic or task.output_json + ) + if task + else None, + } + if executor_cls is AgentExecutor: + executor_kwargs["stop_words"] = stop_words + else: + executor_kwargs["stop"] = stop_words + + self.agent_executor = executor_cls(**executor_kwargs)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/agent/core.py` around lines 1041 - 1068, The code currently hard-codes AgentExecutor when setting self.agent_executor; change it to use the configured executor_class (e.g., self.executor_class or executor_class) so executor_class=CrewAgentExecutor is honored: locate the assignment to self.agent_executor in create agent executor code (the block that builds AgentExecutor with llm=self.llm, task=task, agent=self, crew=self.crew, tools=parsed_tools, prompt=prompt, ...), instantiate executor_class(...) with the exact same keyword args (and the fallback to AgentExecutor if executor_class is None) so all existing parameters (tools_handler, step_callback, function_calling_llm, request_within_rpm_limit, callbacks, response_model, etc.) are forwarded unchanged.
850-864:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftFix the sync task path for
AgentExecutorunder an active event loop.With
AgentExecutornow the default, this branch can receive a coroutine frominvoke()inside async flows, but Line 853 still treats the return value as a dict. That makescrew.kickoff()from async flow methods regress at runtime; the skipped telemetry test is just hiding it.Either keep this path fully async end-to-end (
aexecute_task/kickoff_async) or explicitly handle/reject awaitables here instead of indexing into them asresult["output"].🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/agent/core.py` around lines 850 - 864, The sync path treats self.agent_executor.invoke(...) as a dict but invoke can return an awaitable when running under an active event loop (AgentExecutor default); update the sync branch to detect awaitables (use inspect.isawaitable on the value returned by agent_executor.invoke) and if it is awaitable, raise a clear RuntimeError instructing callers to use the async variants (e.g. AgentExecutor.aexecute_task or kickoff_async) instead of indexing into the coroutine; otherwise, cast to dict and return result["output"] as before.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In `@lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_agent.py`:
- Around line 704-708: Tests were skipped because human-input support wasn't
migrated to the new default AgentExecutor, causing Task(human_input=True) to
break; either preserve routing of human-input tasks to CrewAgentExecutor or
finish wiring the human_input provider to the new state proxy. To fix: update
the human_input provider and any callsites (search for ask_for_human_input,
_invoke_loop, and Task(human_input=True)) to read/write the flag from the new
state proxy used by AgentExecutor (e.g., state.ask_for_human_input) and ensure
AgentExecutor._invoke_loop honours that state, or revert human-input task
handling so CrewAgentExecutor remains the codepath for human_input tasks until
the provider migration is complete. Ensure tests reference the same executor
that supports human input.
- Around line 393-396: The test reveals AgentExecutor (flow-based) is making an
extra LLM provider call on the forced-final-answer path; update the executor so
that when max_iter triggers a forced final answer it emits exactly one provider
request. In practice modify the AgentExecutor loop/dispatch logic (the code that
handles the loop termination / force-final-answer routing) to either (a)
short-circuit the routing step and directly call the final-answer generator
once, or (b) detect that the routing call would send the same
forced-final-answer prompt as the final-answer call and skip/merge the duplicate
provider invocation; locate the flow-based path inside AgentExecutor and its
loop/route-to-final-answer handling and ensure only one provider call is made
when force-final-answer is set.
In
`@lib/crewai/tests/cassettes/TestCrewMultimodalAnthropic.test_pdf_file`[anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-20250514].yaml:
- Around line 4-8: The test cassette
TestCrewMultimodalAnthropic.test_pdf_file[anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-20250514].yaml
is recording a full-PDF dump instead of the required one-sentence description;
update the prompt template used by the flow that produces "Describe the file(s)
you see..." to explicitly constrain responses to a single sentence and to
include an instruction like "return only the complete content: one sentence" and
a hard stop token, and then strengthen the test assertions (or add a validation
step in the test harness) to fail if response contains multiple paragraphs,
exceeds a short token/character limit, or records stop_reason: "max_tokens" so
the cassette cannot accept full-document outputs; apply the same prompt
fix/validation to the related cases (e.g., entries referenced by lines 52-326)
to prevent regressions.
In `@lib/crewai/tests/test_crew.py`:
- Around line 2993-2996: The test currently uses pytest.mark.skip which hides
regressions in Crew.train(); change the decorator so CI fails when behavior
regresses by replacing the skip with pytest.mark.xfail(strict=True) or modify
the test setup to force the compatibility executor path (instantiate or inject
CrewAgentExecutor or set the executor creation to return CrewAgentExecutor) so
Crew.train() still exercises CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message rather
than the new AgentExecutor; update the test decorator or setup accordingly to
ensure the test runs as an expected-failure (strict) or uses CrewAgentExecutor
explicitly.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/agent/core.py`:
- Around line 1041-1068: The code currently hard-codes AgentExecutor when
setting self.agent_executor; change it to use the configured executor_class
(e.g., self.executor_class or executor_class) so
executor_class=CrewAgentExecutor is honored: locate the assignment to
self.agent_executor in create agent executor code (the block that builds
AgentExecutor with llm=self.llm, task=task, agent=self, crew=self.crew,
tools=parsed_tools, prompt=prompt, ...), instantiate executor_class(...) with
the exact same keyword args (and the fallback to AgentExecutor if executor_class
is None) so all existing parameters (tools_handler, step_callback,
function_calling_llm, request_within_rpm_limit, callbacks, response_model, etc.)
are forwarded unchanged.
- Around line 850-864: The sync path treats self.agent_executor.invoke(...) as a
dict but invoke can return an awaitable when running under an active event loop
(AgentExecutor default); update the sync branch to detect awaitables (use
inspect.isawaitable on the value returned by agent_executor.invoke) and if it is
awaitable, raise a clear RuntimeError instructing callers to use the async
variants (e.g. AgentExecutor.aexecute_task or kickoff_async) instead of indexing
into the coroutine; otherwise, cast to dict and return result["output"] as
before.
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- lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_agent_reasoning.py
| # With max_iter=1, AgentExecutor (Flow-based) makes 3 calls: | ||
| # one inside the loop, one for the force-final-answer path, plus a routing call. | ||
| # The exact count is an implementation detail; what matters is the loop stops promptly. | ||
| assert call_count <= 3 |
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Don't normalize the extra LLM round-trip here.
Relaxing this to <= 3 hides a real regression on the max-iteration path. The updated cassette now shows three provider calls, with the last two sending the same forced-final-answer prompt, so this is extra cost/latency rather than just an internal routing detail. Please keep the test strict and fix the executor to emit a single final-answer request.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_agent.py` around lines 393 - 396, The test
reveals AgentExecutor (flow-based) is making an extra LLM provider call on the
forced-final-answer path; update the executor so that when max_iter triggers a
forced final answer it emits exactly one provider request. In practice modify
the AgentExecutor loop/dispatch logic (the code that handles the loop
termination / force-final-answer routing) to either (a) short-circuit the
routing step and directly call the final-answer generator once, or (b) detect
that the routing call would send the same forced-final-answer prompt as the
final-answer call and skip/merge the duplicate provider invocation; locate the
flow-based path inside AgentExecutor and its loop/route-to-final-answer handling
and ensure only one provider call is made when force-final-answer is set.
| @pytest.mark.skip( | ||
| reason="Tests CrewAgentExecutor._invoke_loop + ask_for_human_input attribute. " | ||
| "AgentExecutor is now the default and stores ask_for_human_input on state. " | ||
| "Re-enable when human_input provider is updated to use the new state proxy." | ||
| ) |
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The default-executor flip is shipping without human-input support.
Lines 705-707 say the human-input provider still needs to be updated for the new state proxy, but this PR also makes AgentExecutor the default. That leaves Task(human_input=True) unverified and likely broken on the default path, which is a backward-compatibility regression. Please either keep human-input tasks on CrewAgentExecutor for now or finish the provider wiring before merge.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_agent.py` around lines 704 - 708, Tests were
skipped because human-input support wasn't migrated to the new default
AgentExecutor, causing Task(human_input=True) to break; either preserve routing
of human-input tasks to CrewAgentExecutor or finish wiring the human_input
provider to the new state proxy. To fix: update the human_input provider and any
callsites (search for ask_for_human_input, _invoke_loop, and
Task(human_input=True)) to read/write the flag from the new state proxy used by
AgentExecutor (e.g., state.ask_for_human_input) and ensure
AgentExecutor._invoke_loop honours that state, or revert human-input task
handling so CrewAgentExecutor remains the codepath for human_input tasks until
the provider migration is complete. Ensure tests reference the same executor
that supports human input.
| Describe the file(s) you see. Be brief, one sentence max.\n\nInput files (content | ||
| already loaded in conversation):\n - \"document\" (agents.pdf)\n\nThis is the | ||
| expected criteria for your final answer: A brief description of the file.\nyou | ||
| MUST return the actual complete content as the final answer, not a summary.\n\nProvide | ||
| your complete response:"}],"model":"claude-sonnet-4-20250514","stop_sequences":["\nObservation:"],"stream":false,"system":"You |
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This fixture is locking in a bad multimodal regression.
The request asks for a brief one-sentence description, but the recorded response dumps the entire PDF and hits stop_reason: "max_tokens". That is a clear correctness and cost regression for file analysis, not an acceptable new baseline. Please fix the prompt composition behind this flow, or strengthen the corresponding test so multi-paragraph/full-document output fails.
Also applies to: 52-326
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In
`@lib/crewai/tests/cassettes/TestCrewMultimodalAnthropic.test_pdf_file`[anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-20250514].yaml
around lines 4 - 8, The test cassette
TestCrewMultimodalAnthropic.test_pdf_file[anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-20250514].yaml
is recording a full-PDF dump instead of the required one-sentence description;
update the prompt template used by the flow that produces "Describe the file(s)
you see..." to explicitly constrain responses to a single sentence and to
include an instruction like "return only the complete content: one sentence" and
a hard stop token, and then strengthen the test assertions (or add a validation
step in the test harness) to fail if response contains multiple paragraphs,
exceeds a short token/character limit, or records stop_reason: "max_tokens" so
the cassette cannot accept full-document outputs; apply the same prompt
fix/validation to the related cases (e.g., entries referenced by lines 52-326)
to prevent regressions.
| @pytest.mark.skip( | ||
| reason="crew.train() relies on CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message; " | ||
| "AgentExecutor (the new default) does not implement training feedback yet." | ||
| ) |
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Skipping this test hides a Crew.train() regression instead of tracking it
At Line 2993, the unconditional skip removes coverage for a still-public training path and can mask breakage introduced by the default executor change. Keep this test executable (e.g., xfail(strict=True)) or force the compatibility path (CrewAgentExecutor) so CI still signals when behavior changes.
Suggested minimal change
-@pytest.mark.skip(
+@pytest.mark.xfail(
reason="crew.train() relies on CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message; "
"AgentExecutor (the new default) does not implement training feedback yet."
+ ,
+ strict=True,
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| @pytest.mark.skip( | |
| reason="crew.train() relies on CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message; " | |
| "AgentExecutor (the new default) does not implement training feedback yet." | |
| ) | |
| `@pytest.mark.xfail`( | |
| reason="crew.train() relies on CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message; " | |
| "AgentExecutor (the new default) does not implement training feedback yet." | |
| , | |
| strict=True, | |
| ) |
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@lib/crewai/tests/test_crew.py` around lines 2993 - 2996, The test currently
uses pytest.mark.skip which hides regressions in Crew.train(); change the
decorator so CI fails when behavior regresses by replacing the skip with
pytest.mark.xfail(strict=True) or modify the test setup to force the
compatibility executor path (instantiate or inject CrewAgentExecutor or set the
executor creation to return CrewAgentExecutor) so Crew.train() still exercises
CrewAgentExecutor._format_feedback_message rather than the new AgentExecutor;
update the test decorator or setup accordingly to ensure the test runs as an
expected-failure (strict) or uses CrewAgentExecutor explicitly.
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Summary
Agents used inside
Crew()now default to the experimentalAgentExecutor(Flow-based) instead ofCrewAgentExecutor. This is the first step toward fully removingCrewAgentExecutorin a future release.Changes
agent/core.pyexecutor_classfield default changed fromCrewAgentExecutor→AgentExecutor_validate_executor_classvalidator now emits aDeprecationWarningwhenCrewAgentExecutoris passed explicitlyagents/crew_agent_executor.pymodel_post_init(or__init__) emits aDeprecationWarningon instantiation, directing users tocrewai.experimental.AgentExecutoragents/__init__.py__getattr__export forCrewAgentExecutorso existingfrom crewai.agents import CrewAgentExecutorimports continue to work without breaking circular-import chainsBackward compatibility
executor_class=CrewAgentExecutorexplicitly still works — it just emits aDeprecationWarningfrom crewai.agents import CrewAgentExecutorstill resolves correctlySmoke test
Next steps (follow-on PRs)
CrewAgentExecutorfrom_EXECUTOR_CLASS_MAPand the string-alias mapCrewAgentExecutorafter one minor version deprecation windowSummary by CodeRabbit
Refactor
Deprecation
CrewAgentExecutoris now deprecated; migrate to the new default executor for continued support.Tests