From 1f38ff4877db6d0ae348330e25203beab51b7d1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greyson LaLonde <greyson@crewai.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:28:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: use dynamic separator in slugify for dedup and strip

---
 lib/crewai/src/crewai/utilities/string_utils.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/utilities/string_utils.py b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/utilities/string_utils.py
index d5f0c9367..fc5d12a4b 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/utilities/string_utils.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/utilities/string_utils.py
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ def slugify(text: str, separator: str = "_") -> str:
     text = text.lower()
     text = _QUOTE_PATTERN.sub("", text)
     text = _DISALLOWED_CHARS_PATTERN.sub(separator, text)
-    text = _DUPLICATE_SEPARATOR_PATTERN.sub(separator, text)
-    return text.strip("-_")
+    escaped_sep = re.escape(separator)
+    text = re.sub(f"(?:{escaped_sep}){{2,}}", separator, text)
+    return text.strip(separator)
 
 
 def interpolate_only(