feat: export file types and deprecate agent multimodal flag

- Export File type classes from crewai package
- Mark Agent.multimodal field as deprecated (use input_files instead)

lib/crewai/src/crewai/__init__.py

@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ from crewai.task import Task
 from crewai.tasks.llm_guardrail import LLMGuardrail
 from crewai.tasks.task_output import TaskOutput
 from crewai.telemetry.telemetry import Telemetry
+from crewai.utilities.files import (
+    AudioFile,
+    File,
+    ImageFile,
+    PDFFile,
+    TextFile,
+    VideoFile,
+)
 
 
 def _suppress_pydantic_deprecation_warnings() -> None:
@@ -74,14 +82,20 @@ _track_install_async()
 __all__ = [
     "LLM",
     "Agent",
+    "AudioFile",
     "BaseLLM",
     "Crew",
     "CrewOutput",
+    "File",
     "Flow",
+    "ImageFile",
     "Knowledge",
     "LLMGuardrail",
+    "PDFFile",
     "Process",
     "Task",
     "TaskOutput",
+    "TextFile",
+    "VideoFile",
     "__version__",
 ]

lib/crewai/src/crewai/agent/core.py

@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ from crewai.utilities.training_handler import CrewTrainingHandler
 try:
     from crewai.a2a.config import A2AClientConfig, A2AConfig, A2AServerConfig
 except ImportError:
-    A2AClientConfig = Any
-    A2AConfig = Any
-    A2AServerConfig = Any
+    A2AClientConfig = Any  # type: ignore[assignment,misc]
+    A2AConfig = Any  # type: ignore[assignment,misc]
+    A2AServerConfig = Any  # type: ignore[assignment,misc]
 
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ class Agent(BaseAgent):
     )
     multimodal: bool = Field(
         default=False,
-        description="Whether the agent is multimodal.",
+        deprecated=True,
+        description="[DEPRECATED, will be removed in v2.0 - pass files natively.] Whether the agent is multimodal.",
     )
     inject_date: bool = Field(
         default=False,