fix(cli): ship crewai-cli by default and restore crewai.cli imports

lib/cli/pyproject.toml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "tomli-w~=1.1.0",
     "packaging>=23.0",
     "python-dotenv>=1.2.2,<2",
-    "uv~=0.9.13",
+    "uv~=0.11.6",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]

lib/crewai/pyproject.toml

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ authors = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.10, <3.14"
 dependencies = [
-    # Shared utilities (version, paths, user_data, telemetry, printer)
-    "crewai-core",
+    "crewai-core==1.14.5a2",
+    "crewai-cli==1.14.5a2",
     # Core Dependencies
     "pydantic>=2.11.9,<2.13",
     "openai>=2.30.0,<3",
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "pydantic-settings~=2.10.1",
     "httpx~=0.28.1",
     "mcp~=1.26.0",
-    "uv~=0.11.6",
     "aiosqlite~=0.21.0",
     "pyyaml~=6.0",
     "aiofiles~=24.1.0",
@@ -110,20 +109,11 @@ a2a = [
 file-processing = [
     "crewai-files",
 ]
-cli = [
-    "crewai-cli",
-]
 qdrant-edge = [
     "qdrant-edge-py>=0.6.0",
 ]
 
 
-# CLI entry point has moved to the crewai-cli package.
-# Install it via: pip install crewai[cli]
-# [project.scripts]
-# crewai = "crewai.cli.cli:crewai"
-
-
 [tool.uv]
 exclude-newer = "3 days"
 

lib/crewai/src/crewai/cli/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+"""Backward-compat shim — re-export ``crewai_cli`` as ``crewai.cli``.
+
+The CLI was extracted into the standalone ``crewai-cli`` package. Legacy
+``from crewai.cli.X import Y`` imports are intercepted here and resolved to
+the corresponding ``crewai_cli.X`` module so downstream code keeps working.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+import importlib
+import importlib.abc
+import importlib.machinery
+import sys
+from types import ModuleType
+
+
+_PREFIX = "crewai.cli"
+_TARGET = "crewai_cli"
+
+
+class _ShimLoader(importlib.abc.Loader):
+    """Returns an already-imported ``crewai_cli`` submodule without re-executing it."""
+
+    def __init__(self, target_name: str) -> None:
+        self._target_name = target_name
+
+    def create_module(self, spec: importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec) -> ModuleType:
+        return importlib.import_module(self._target_name)
+
+    def exec_module(self, module: ModuleType) -> None:
+        return None
+
+
+class _ShimFinder(importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder):
+    """Maps ``crewai.cli[.X]`` imports onto ``crewai_cli[.X]``."""
+
+    def find_spec(
+        self,
+        fullname: str,
+        path: Sequence[str] | None,
+        target: ModuleType | None = None,
+    ) -> importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec | None:
+        if fullname != _PREFIX and not fullname.startswith(_PREFIX + "."):
+            return None
+
+        mapped = _TARGET + fullname[len(_PREFIX) :]
+        try:
+            module = importlib.import_module(mapped)
+        except ImportError:
+            return None
+
+        spec = importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec(
+            name=fullname,
+            loader=_ShimLoader(mapped),
+            origin=getattr(module, "__file__", None),
+            is_package=hasattr(module, "__path__"),
+        )
+        if hasattr(module, "__path__"):
+            spec.submodule_search_locations = []
+        return spec
+
+
+_finder = _ShimFinder()
+if _finder not in sys.meta_path:
+    sys.meta_path.insert(0, _finder)