Add declarative Flow CLI support (#6294)

* Add declarative Flow CLI support

Currently, declarative flows can be loaded by the runtime, but the CLI
still treats them as an experimental definition file instead of a
first-class Flow project shape.

With this PR, `crewai create flow --declarative` scaffolds a YAML-backed
Flow project, and `crewai run`, `crewai flow kickoff`, and `crewai flow
plot` can run against the configured definition.

This also lets crew actions reference reusable crew definition files or
folders and override their inputs from the Flow definition, so
declarative flows can compose existing declarative crews without
inlining everything.

* Address code review comments
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Vinicius Brasil
2026-06-22 19:58:17 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent 0391febc6c
commit 4b2ce00a09
18 changed files with 951 additions and 334 deletions

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@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ import click
from crewai_core.telemetry import Telemetry
def create_flow(name: str) -> None:
DECLARATIVE_FLOW_FOLDERS = ("crews", "tools", "knowledge", "skills")
def create_flow(name: str, *, declarative: bool = False) -> None:
"""Create a new flow."""
folder_name = name.replace(" ", "_").replace("-", "_").lower()
class_name = name.replace("_", " ").replace("-", " ").title().replace(" ", "")
@@ -20,6 +23,17 @@ def create_flow(name: str) -> None:
telemetry = Telemetry()
telemetry.flow_creation_span(class_name)
if declarative:
_create_declarative_flow(name, class_name, folder_name, project_root)
else:
_create_python_flow(name, class_name, folder_name, project_root)
click.secho(f"Flow {name} created successfully!", fg="green", bold=True)
def _create_python_flow(
name: str, class_name: str, folder_name: str, project_root: Path
) -> None:
(project_root / "src" / folder_name).mkdir(parents=True)
(project_root / "src" / folder_name / "crews").mkdir(parents=True)
(project_root / "src" / folder_name / "tools").mkdir(parents=True)
@@ -92,4 +106,41 @@ def create_flow(name: str) -> None:
fg="yellow",
)
click.secho(f"Flow {name} created successfully!", fg="green", bold=True)
def _create_declarative_flow(
name: str, class_name: str, folder_name: str, project_root: Path
) -> None:
project_root.mkdir(parents=True)
package_root = project_root / "src" / folder_name
package_root.mkdir(parents=True)
for folder in DECLARATIVE_FLOW_FOLDERS:
(package_root / folder).mkdir()
package_dir = Path(__file__).parent
templates_dir = package_dir / "templates" / "declarative_flow"
agents_md_src = package_dir / "templates" / "AGENTS.md"
if agents_md_src.exists():
shutil.copy2(agents_md_src, project_root / "AGENTS.md")
for src_file in templates_dir.rglob("*"):
if not src_file.is_file():
continue
relative_path = src_file.relative_to(templates_dir)
dst_file = (
project_root / relative_path
if relative_path.name in {".gitignore", "README.md", "pyproject.toml"}
else package_root / relative_path
)
dst_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
content = src_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
content = content.replace("{{name}}", name)
content = content.replace("{{flow_name}}", class_name)
content = content.replace("{{folder_name}}", folder_name)
dst_file.write_text(content, encoding="utf-8")
(project_root / ".env").write_text("OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY", encoding="utf-8")
(package_root / "__init__.py").write_text("", encoding="utf-8")
for folder in DECLARATIVE_FLOW_FOLDERS:
(package_root / folder / ".gitkeep").write_text("", encoding="utf-8")