From e46608e000502e85aa6aee278064df0a7114c5c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greyson LaLonde <greyson@crewai.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:29:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: return empty list from _resolve_crew_skills to prevent
 redundant per-agent discovery

_resolve_crew_skills returned `resolved or None`, which collapsed an
empty resolved list to None. set_skills treated None as "not provided"
and fell back to re-reading raw crew skill paths per agent, defeating
the purpose of resolving crew skills once.
---
 lib/crewai/src/crewai/crews/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/crews/utils.py b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/crews/utils.py
index a896441a6..0b50e60bb 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/crews/utils.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/crews/utils.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def _resolve_crew_skills(crew: Crew) -> list[SkillModel] | None:
                     if item.disclosure_level < INSTRUCTIONS
                     else item
                 )
-    return resolved or None
+    return resolved
 
 
 def setup_agents(