From d1934dabc0361f51fedd275bd380d095ca046908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greyson Lalonde <greyson.r.lalonde@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 09:21:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(cli): declare crewai dependency and drop standalone claim
 from docs

---
 lib/cli/README.md      | 6 ++++--
 lib/cli/pyproject.toml | 3 ++-
 uv.lock                | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/cli/README.md b/lib/cli/README.md
index 9fe7e42f0..068f4b1c7 100644
--- a/lib/cli/README.md
+++ b/lib/cli/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # crewai-cli
 
-CLI for CrewAI - scaffold, run, deploy and manage AI agent crews without installing the full framework.
+CLI for CrewAI — scaffold, run, deploy and manage AI agent crews.
+
+The CLI depends on the `crewai` framework and pulls it in automatically.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ CLI for CrewAI - scaffold, run, deploy and manage AI agent crews without install
 pip install crewai-cli
 ```
 
-Or install alongside the full framework:
+Or install via the framework's extra:
 
 ```bash
 pip install crewai[cli]
diff --git a/lib/cli/pyproject.toml b/lib/cli/pyproject.toml
index 3c136ef24..2261427e5 100644
--- a/lib/cli/pyproject.toml
+++ b/lib/cli/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 [project]
 name = "crewai-cli"
 dynamic = ["version"]
-description = "CLI for CrewAI - scaffold, run, deploy and manage AI agent crews without installing the full framework."
+description = "CLI for CrewAI — scaffold, run, deploy and manage AI agent crews."
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
     { name = "Joao Moura", email = "joao@crewai.com" }
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.10, <3.14"
 dependencies = [
+    "crewai>=1.14.5a2",
     "click~=8.1.7",
     "pydantic>=2.11.9,<2.13",
     "pydantic-settings~=2.10.1",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 42e9243ad..63c537269 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1436,6 +1436,7 @@ source = { editable = "lib/cli" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "appdirs" },
     { name = "click" },
+    { name = "crewai" },
     { name = "cryptography" },
     { name = "httpx" },
     { name = "packaging" },
@@ -1454,6 +1455,7 @@ dependencies = [
 requires-dist = [
     { name = "appdirs", specifier = "~=1.4.4" },
     { name = "click", specifier = "~=8.1.7" },
+    { name = "crewai", editable = "lib/crewai" },
     { name = "cryptography", specifier = ">=42.0" },
     { name = "httpx", specifier = "~=0.28.1" },
     { name = "packaging", specifier = ">=23.0" },