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João Moura
4718b190d1 fix(cli): open the conversational TUI for a declarative chat flow (#7060)
* fix(cli): open the conversational TUI for a declarative chat flow

`crewai run` refused a declarative conversational flow and told the user to
drive it from Python. That was wrong: the conversational TUI already exists and
already does this job. `CrewRunApp(conversational=True)` renders a chat pane and
drives `handle_turn` per message (crew_run_tui.py:833-935), and
`kickoff_flow._run_conversational_flow_tui` launches it for a Python
conversational Flow.

A declaration-built flow satisfies everything that TUI needs -- `handle_turn`,
a settable `defer_trace_finalization`, and `finalize_session_traces()` -- so it
now routes there instead of exiting.

A chat loop still needs a terminal. A headless run (`is_interactive()` false,
which folds in CREWAI_DMN) says what it would have needed rather than kicking
off a single turn and presenting that as the whole conversation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(cli): do not send a human-feedback chat flow to the Textual TUI

A declaration can carry both a `conversational:` block and a method with
`human_feedback:` -- verified, both predicates return True on the same flow.
Routing it to the chat TUI hangs: the runtime collects feedback with a blocking
`input()` (flow/runtime/__init__.py:3719) that Textual cannot service, so the
prompt is never shown. The STEPS TUI already declines these for exactly this
reason. Such a flow now falls back to the terminal REPL, which can prompt.

Also updates the guide in en/ar/ko/pt-BR: it still said `crewai run` has no
chat loop and exits, which is now the opposite of what the CLI does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(cli): reject --inputs on a conversational flow instead of dropping it

The conversational branch returns before `_resolve_flow_inputs`, and the TUI
calls `handle_turn(message)` -- which owns the kickoff inputs, passing
`{"id": session_id}` itself. So any `--inputs` value was silently discarded and
the conversation ran as if it had been applied. It now errors, and says that
resuming a session by id is not wired up yet rather than implying it worked.

Also corrects the Arabic guide: `مُوجّه محجوز` reads as "reserved router", not
the blocking prompt it describes.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #7060.

* fix(cli): document the conversational routing exceptions

Three review follow-ups:

- The Arabic guide read خدمته (masculine) against the feminine
  مُطالبة introduced by the last fix.
- Both docstrings described a routing path that now has exceptions: a
  conversational declaration rejects --inputs and skips state-schema
  resolution, and a human-feedback one uses the terminal REPL.
- The --inputs rejection test accepted SystemExit(0); it now pins code 1.

Found by CodeRabbit on #7060.

* fix(cli): reject --inputs on a chat flow even when it parses empty

parse_inputs_json returns {} both when the option is absent and when the user
passes --inputs "{}", so the falsy check started the TUI for the second case
while the docs said it was unsupported. The conversational path now takes
whether the option was supplied, not what it parsed to.

Documents the restriction in en, ar, ko and pt-BR.

Found by CodeRabbit on #7060.

* test(cli): pin the headless conversational exit status

pytest.raises(SystemExit) also accepts SystemExit(0), so the error path could
regress to a successful exit unnoticed.

Found by CodeRabbit on #7060.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 14:36:40 +05:30
João Moura
4dfd074fae docs(flow): document declarative conversational flows (#7035)
* test(flow): unskip the conversational end-to-end suite

The `conversational_graph_broken` marker parked 21 end-to-end conversational
tests with the reason "the definition-first start migration intentionally
stopped scanning inherited methods, so that graph no longer registers".

That is no longer true: `_iter_flow_methods` walks the MRO for
`__conversational_only__` methods (dsl/_utils.py:406-420), so a
`conversational = True` subclass does register `route_conversation`,
`converse_turn`, `end_conversation` and `answer_from_history_turn` — which
`test_flow_definition.py:391-407` already asserts.

Removing the marker takes the file from 47 passed / 21 skipped to 68 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): make conversational opt-in unmistakable

Opting a Flow into chat took two statements, and forgetting one failed
silently. With `@ConversationConfig(...)` but no `conversational = True`:
`FlowDefinition.conversational` came back `None`, the built-in graph never
registered, and `handle_turn()` returned `None` without appending a message
or raising — while `chat()` reported "only available on conversational flows"
on a class that was literally decorated with a conversational config.

Three changes:

- `ConversationConfig.__call__` now also sets `conversational = True`. Every
  field on the config is consumed only by the conversational graph, so a
  decorated non-conversational Flow could only ever discard it.
- `FlowConversationalDefinition.enabled` defaults to True. The block is absent
  on non-conversational flows, so declaring it is the opt-in; `enabled: false`
  remains an explicit opt-out.
- `handle_turn()` raises like `chat()` and `stream_turn()` already do instead
  of silently returning `None`.

Setting `conversational = True` by hand still works and is still the way to
opt in without a config.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): let a declaration drive conversational mode

`FlowDefinition.conversational` was written by the DSL projection and read by
nothing: every conversational gate resolved through `type(self).flow_definition()`
— the class projection — instead of `self._definition`, the declaration a flow
was actually built from. So `Flow.from_declaration()` on a definition with a
conversational block produced a flow that reported itself non-conversational,
dropped the user message, and never registered its declared routes.

Resolution rules, applied consistently:

- Structure (enabled, methods, route labels, builtin/internal routes) comes
  from `self._definition`, which is the loaded declaration for a declarative
  flow and the class projection otherwise. Both paths now agree.
- Behavior (`conversational_config`) still prefers the class attribute, which
  can hold live objects — a configured LLM, a custom BaseLLM, a response_format
  model class — that the serializable definition degrades to a config dict or a
  `module:qualname` ref. Reading the definition first would silently downgrade
  every decorated Python flow. A declaration-built flow has no class config, so
  `_config_from_definition` supplies one, cached for stable identity.
- A declared `state:` block is never replaced. `_create_default_extension_state`
  is consulted before `_create_definition_state`, so returning `ConversationState`
  there discarded every field the declaration asked for. It now yields to a
  declared state and only supplies the default when nothing else does.

The class-scoped `_is_conversational` / `_conversational_definition`
classmethods are gone; the existing instance-scoped `_is_conversational_enabled`
is the single gate.

A router `response_format` that survived serialization as a ref or schema dict
is dropped with a warning rather than handed to `llm.call()`, which needs a
real class.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): synthesize the built-in conversational methods for declarations

A declaration carrying `conversational: {}` loaded clean and then ran zero
methods and returned `None`, because the four built-in graph handlers are
inherited from `_ConversationalMixin` and a declaration has nothing to inherit
from. Authors had to name `crewai.experimental.conversational_mixin:_Conversational
Mixin.route_conversation` and three siblings by hand.

`Flow._extend_definition` is a new runtime extension hook, called once
`_definition` is resolved and before methods are bound. The conversational
mixin overrides it to fill in `route_conversation`, `converse_turn`,
`end_conversation` and `answer_from_history_turn` when they are missing, using
the same code refs the DSL projection already emits so a declaration and a
class projection of the same flow produce identical method definitions.

Synthesis is deliberately a runtime concern, not a contract one:
`FlowDefinition` stays independent of the authoring layer and of the engine,
as `test_flow_definition_contract_is_dsl_agnostic` requires, and a loaded
declaration still serializes back to exactly what its author wrote.

Route descriptions are now carried by the contract. The DSL projects a handler
docstring's first line into `FlowMethodDefinition.description`, and the router
catalog reads that before falling back to the live docstring. This also fixes
a real defect: for a declarative flow `getattr(type(self), handler_name, None)`
is `None`, and the old code read `None.__doc__` — so the router LLM was told a
route's description was "The type of the None singleton."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(flow): let an agent or crew handler reply in a conversation (#7034)

`handle_turn` promotes a handler's return value to the assistant message when
the handler did not append one itself, but the check required `isinstance(result,
str)`. Declarative `agent` and `crew` actions return `LiteAgentOutput` and
`CrewOutput`, whose text lives on `.raw` — so the most natural declarative
handler was exactly the one whose reply never reached the transcript.

`_is_public_turn_result` now unwraps `.raw` before deciding, matching
`_stringify_result`, which already did. The routing-artefact guards are applied
to the unwrapped text, so an output echoing a route label or this turn's intent
is still not promoted.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(flow): keep privately recorded agent results out of the transcript

Unwrapping `.raw` in `_is_public_turn_result` made the end-of-turn fallback
promote `LiteAgentOutput` / `CrewOutput` objects that the handler had already
recorded via `append_agent_result` with the default private visibility. That
call does not set `_assistant_reply_appended`, so the fallback republished the
very object the handler asked to keep private — defeating
`visible_agent_outputs`.

Reproduced against `main` for contrast: no leak before the unwrap, leak after.

`append_agent_result` now remembers the object it recorded for the duration of
the turn, and the fallback skips anything already routed that way. The check is
identity-based on purpose: a handler that records scratch work privately and
then returns a user-facing summary still gets that summary promoted, which a
simple "handler already handled it" flag would have broken.

Found by Cursor Bugbot on #7033.

* feat(flow): mark a declarative chat flow conversational on the instance

A declaration enables chat through `conversational.enabled`, without the
`conversational = True` class attribute. Callers outside this package
capability-check that attribute -- the AG-UI serving guide states it as a
requirement -- so it disagreed with `_is_conversational_enabled()` and a
declarative conversational flow looked non-conversational from outside.

`_extend_definition` now sets it on the instance when the definition enables
chat. Instance-only on purpose: the DSL projection reads the attribute off the
*class* to decide whether to emit a conversational block, so setting it there
would make every later subclass look conversational.

Verified on a real declarative flow: `conversational` and `stream_turn` both
now satisfy the documented capability check, while `Flow.conversational` and
any later subclass stay False.

* refactor(flow): derive routing-artefact labels from the effective routes

`_is_public_turn_result` matched a literal set of route labels, duplicating
knowledge that `_effective_builtin_routes()` already owns. A declaration that
adds a builtin route was not covered, so a handler echoing that label could be
promoted into the transcript -- the same class of divergence already fixed for
`route_turn`.

Verified the derived set is byte-identical to the old literal one for a
class-based flow, so this is a pure generalization: `conversation` and
`route_to_flow` stay explicit because neither is a route.

Also replaces a tuple-index lambda in the chat REPL test with a named
`input_fn`; it relied on tuple evaluation order and on the list being mutated
before its length was read.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #7033.

* docs(flow): document declarative conversational flows

The authoring skill told LLM authors "use top-level `conversational` only when
the user asks for a chat flow" while documenting none of its 19 fields — there
was no ModelSpec for either conversational model, so the API reference appendix
skipped them entirely.

- Adds both conversational models to the skill reference, with field
  descriptions, and registers them under the existing `conversational` skip so
  `skills(skips=["conversational"])` still suppresses the whole block.
- Adds authoring rules: do not declare the built-in graph, do not name a
  handler after the route it listens to, do not declare state unless it needs
  extra fields, and give every route handler a description.
- Documents the declarative form in the conversational-flows guide across en,
  ar, ko and pt-BR, including what is supplied automatically, how to run it,
  and what a declaration cannot express (live LLM objects, a response_format
  class, route_turn overrides).
- `crewai run` on a conversational declaration now says it has no chat loop and
  points at handle_turn/chat, instead of quietly running a single turn and
  exiting. It fails closed: a flow that cannot be inspected runs normally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(flow): render the conversational router section in the skill

Both conversational models shared one `Conversational` section, and the
template renders only the first model of a non-union section. The router's
fields were therefore dropped from the API reference and the generated link to
them pointed at a heading that did not exist.

Also softens the built-in-handler rule: `_extend_definition` keeps an
author-supplied entry and the guide documents that override, so the skill
should say to omit those handlers by default rather than never declare them.

Adds regression tests for both sections rendering, for every field of both
models appearing, and for `skips=["conversational"]` suppressing both.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #7035.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(flow): correct the route-description rule in the authoring skill

The rule said every route handler must define `description`, but
`conversational.router.route_descriptions` is the higher-precedence source --
`_build_route_catalog` checks the overrides before falling back to the method
description. Either one describes a route; the rule now says so, and says what
happens when a route has neither.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: ViditOstwal <viditostwal@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Vidit Ostwal <110953813+Vidit-Ostwal@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-19 20:18:18 +05:30
João Moura
85c467dfe2 feat(cli): run declarative flows on the TUI (headless terminal fallback) (#6484)
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* feat(cli): run declarative flows on the TUI with a headless terminal fallback

Declarative flows now run on the CrewRunApp TUI when interactive, matching
declarative crews and conversational flows. Headless contexts — CREWAI_DMN
(deploy), piped output, CI, any non-TTY — fall back to the direct-terminal
kickoff, gated by is_interactive() (folds in the CREWAI_DMN check and requires
a real TTY).

The TUI shows per-method progress: a new STEPS panel driven by flow method
events (FlowStarted / MethodExecutionStarted/Finished/Failed), each labeled
with its declarative call type (crew/agent/expression/…) read from the flow
definition. Crews/agents inside a method keep streaming in the main panel via
the existing crew/task/LLM handlers.

- crew_run_tui.py: _run_flow_worker (flow.kickoff in a thread worker; reuses
  _on_crew_done/_on_crew_failed + _stringify_output), _is_flow_run gate so crew
  rendering is byte-identical, flow-event subscriptions building _flow_steps,
  and the STEPS sidebar + flow-aware header.
- run_declarative_flow.py: is_interactive() branch → _run_declarative_flow_tui
  (EventListener, method-type map from flow._definition, crew-parity exit codes
  and deploy chaining) or the existing terminal path.

Deviation from the approved plan: gate on is_interactive() rather than
is_dmn_mode_enabled() alone, so non-TTY runs (CI/pipes/CliRunner) never launch
a TUI — this also keeps existing headless flow tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): force flow events on for the TUI so STEPS renders under suppress_flow_events

Review follow-up: the STEPS panel and header are driven by flow method events
(FlowStarted / MethodExecution*), but the declarative runtime skips emitting
those when the flow declared config.suppress_flow_events. Interactive TUI runs
would then keep STEPS on "waiting…" and the header on "Starting flow…" while
nested crews still execute.

_run_declarative_flow_tui now forces flow.suppress_flow_events = False for the
interactive run (mirroring how the conversational path mutates the flow for the
TUI). The headless/terminal path never reaches this and keeps the flow's
declared setting. Regression test: test_run_declarative_flow_tui_enables_flow_events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): clear flow header's current method when a method ends

Review follow-up: the flow header keys off _current_method, which was set on
MethodExecutionStarted but never cleared on Finished/Failed. Between steps (or
after a failed method before kickoff exits) the header kept spinning the old
method name while the STEPS sidebar already showed it done/failed.

_clear_current_method now drops the header's active method when it ends,
falling back to another still-active step (methods can overlap) or none. The
header's idle fallback shows "Working…" once a step has run and "Starting
flow…" only before the first method.

Tests: test_current_method_clears_and_falls_back_across_overlap, plus a
_current_method assertion in test_flow_method_events_build_steps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix: suppress flow console panels in TUI mode; clear header agent on method change

Two review follow-ups:

1) Method panels break Textual TUI (Cursor): forcing suppress_flow_events off
   so the STEPS panel receives events also un-gated the EventListener's Rich
   flow/method panels (ConsoleFormatter.print_panel prints is_flow=True panels
   regardless of verbose), which interleave with Textual and corrupt the TUI.
   print_panel now skips is_flow panels when is_tui_mode() is set (the same
   context the TUI worker already establishes and the tracing listeners already
   honor). Non-TUI/headless flow runs are unaffected. Test:
   test_console_formatter_tui_mode.

2) Flow header showed a stale agent (CodeRabbit): _current_agent persisted
   across methods. It's now cleared when a method starts and when the active
   method changes, so the header never shows the previous method's agent until
   a new agent event arrives. Test: test_flow_method_transitions_clear_current_agent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): keep flow name over nested crews; show paused flow methods

Two review follow-ups on the flow TUI:

1) Crew kickoff renamed the flow (Cursor): CrewKickoffStartedEvent overwrote
   _crew_name / the app title with a nested `call: crew` step's crew name, so
   the post-run summary could be labeled with a child crew. The rename is now
   gated on `not _is_flow_run`, preserving the flow's name; crew runs still
   adopt the crew name. Tests: test_crew_kickoff_does_not_rename_flow_run,
   test_crew_kickoff_renames_in_crew_mode.

2) Paused methods showed active (Cursor): the TUI didn't handle
   MethodExecutionPausedEvent, so a @human_feedback pause left the STEPS
   spinner running (flow status panels are suppressed in TUI mode). It now
   marks the step "paused" (⏸, teal) and the header shows "waiting for
   feedback" instead of a spinner. Test: test_method_paused_marks_step_paused.

Note: interactively *providing* human feedback from the flow TUI is a separate
follow-up; this only makes the pause visible instead of a silent stuck spinner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): run human-feedback declarative flows on the terminal, not the TUI

Two review follow-ups, both rooted in @human_feedback methods:

- Paused flow marked complete (Cursor): async human feedback makes kickoff
  RETURN a HumanFeedbackPending marker (not raise), which _run_flow_worker
  would stringify and report as a successful completion with exit 0.
- Sync feedback breaks TUI (Cursor): default (sync) @human_feedback collects
  input via the flow runtime's Rich console.print + blocking input(), which
  interleaves with Textual and leaves the user unable to review output or
  submit feedback.

run_declarative_flow now routes any flow whose declarative definition declares
human feedback (_flow_uses_human_feedback) to the terminal path, where blocking
input and Rich prompts work natively — regardless of interactivity. Non-feedback
flows still get the TUI. Tests: test_flow_uses_human_feedback_detection,
test_human_feedback_flow_uses_terminal_even_when_interactive.

Fully interactive human feedback inside the TUI remains a separate follow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* refactor(cli): address review — Flow typing, debug logging, flow-vs-crew naming

Review follow-ups from @lucasgomide:

- Type flow helpers as Flow[Any] (via TYPE_CHECKING import) instead of Any and
  drop the defensive getattr chains — _definition is a typed PrivateAttr and
  name/suppress_flow_events are typed fields, so attribute access is safe.
- Replace the silent `except Exception: pass` blocks with logger.debug(...,
  exc_info=True) so unexpected failures are diagnosable in the field
  (_flow_method_types, _flow_uses_human_feedback, suppress_flow_events toggle).
- Flow-vs-crew naming: the flow worker now uses group="flow" (was the
  misleading "crew"), and the shared completion/failure handlers report the
  run with an entity-aware noun ("flow" vs "crew") via _run_noun.

Deferred (separate PR): the os._exit(130) hard-kill on user quit is kept as-is
to match the existing crew convention (run_crew._run_json_crew).

Tests: test_flow_done_uses_flow_wording_for_unfinished_tool; existing crew
wording tests unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-10 11:42:12 -03:00
João Moura
3246cb30f5 fix(cli): unify crewai run flow input resolution and prompt from the state schema (#6466)
* fix(cli): unify `crewai run` flow input resolution; prompt from state schema

`crewai run` resolved the configured [tool.crewai] flow, but `--inputs` was
hard-gated behind `--definition` and routed through a separate branch — the two
ways of pointing at the same flow didn't share resolution, and required inputs
were never detected, prompted, or validated (a missing field only blew up at
runtime).

Now inputs and definition come from one place:

- Remove the "--inputs requires --definition" gate (cli.py, run_crew.py,
  run_declarative_flow.py). `--inputs` alone resolves the configured flow,
  exactly like a bare `crewai run`; `--definition` is purely an override. The
  project-env re-exec forwards `--inputs` instead of rejecting it.
- Read the flow's state schema from the runtime Flow instance
  (`type(flow.state).model_json_schema()`), which is reliable for both inline
  `json_schema` and ref-imported `pydantic` state (the static definition's
  json_schema is None for the common ref case).
- Plain `crewai run` detects required state fields (minus those satisfied by
  state defaults) and prompts for them interactively, showing each field's
  description; skipped in non-interactive / CREWAI_DMN mode.
- Validate against the schema before kickoff: pointed
  "Missing required input 'x' — <description>" errors, and warn on unknown keys
  with a did-you-mean suggestion (catches typos like `prospect_emai`).

`--inputs` on a non-flow project now errors clearly ("only supported for
declarative flows") instead of the old confusing gate.

Tests: schema-driven prompt/validate/override paths, unknown-key warning,
defaults-satisfy-required, type validation, and re-exec input forwarding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): forward reserved `id` input to flow kickoff; ruff format

- Cursor: the schema filter treated an `id` key in --inputs as unknown and
  dropped it, regressing kickoff's persistence-restore support (inputs["id"]).
  Let `id` pass through untouched (test: reserved_id_input_is_forwarded).
- Apply ruff format to run_declarative_flow.py (fixes the lint-run
  `ruff format --check` step).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): don't block persistence-restore resume on schema validation

Cursor (High): `crewai run --inputs '{"id":"…"}'` is a persistence resume —
kickoff hydrates full state from storage, so schema-required fields may come
from the restored state rather than --inputs. The new required-field
prompt/validation was erroring/prompting before kickoff, breaking resume. When
`id` is present in --inputs, forward the inputs unchanged and skip the
prompt/validation. Test: test_id_only_input_skips_required_validation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): load project .env in the declarative-flow runner

The declarative-flow path never loaded .env — flow projects (type = "flow")
missed API keys/config that crew projects pick up. The JSON-crew path loads
Path.cwd()/.env with override=True (run_crew._run_json_crew); mirror that at
the top of run_declarative_flow() so flow projects behave the same regardless
of where crewai is installed. Test: run_declarative_flow_loads_project_env.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* feat(cli): unify runtime-input prompting across declarative flows and crews

Declarative (JSON) crews now resolve inputs the same way declarative flows
do, via a shared crewai_cli.input_prompt module (prompt_for_inputs,
parse_inputs_json, closest_name, is_interactive):

- accept --inputs (previously rejected for crews), forwarded to the crew
  subprocess via CREWAI_JSON_CREW_INPUTS and validated before spinning up uv
- layer --inputs over the crew's declared `inputs` defaults
- prompt for missing {placeholder}s with the same UX as flows, and error
  cleanly with a pointed per-name message when non-interactive
- warn on unknown keys with a "did you mean" suggestion

Unlike flows — whose state schema is authoritative, so unknown keys are
dropped — the crew placeholder scan is heuristic (agent/task text fields
only), so unrecognized keys are warned about but kept, to avoid discarding a
value a field the scan doesn't cover may rely on.

--inputs remains rejected for classic (Python/YAML) crews, which take their
inputs from main.py. run_declarative_flow's private input helpers move to the
shared module with no behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* test(crewai): update mirrored CLI test after run_crew input refactor

lib/crewai/tests/cli/test_run_crew.py imports crewai_cli internals and is
collected by the lib/crewai test job (Run Tests). It still imported
_prompt_for_missing_inputs, which was replaced by _resolve_crew_inputs, so
the module failed to import — erroring pytest at collection and cancelling
the rest of the matrix via fail-fast.

Point it at _resolve_crew_inputs and patch the prompt in the shared
crewai_cli.input_prompt module where prompting now lives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

* fix(cli): filter unknown --inputs keys even on flow persistence restore

Review follow-up: the `id` (persistence-restore) branch of
_resolve_flow_inputs returned the raw payload, so typo keys passed alongside
`id` skipped the unknown-key warning/drop and reached kickoff — which can
fail strict (extra="forbid") flow state models. The restore path now still
warns on and drops unknown keys (keeping `id` and known state fields); it
only skips the required-field prompt and pre-kickoff validation, which
persistence hydrates. Regression test: test_id_restore_still_drops_unknown_keys.

Also drop the duplicate module import in test_input_prompt.py (both `import`
and `from ... import` of crewai_cli.input_prompt) flagged by the code-quality
bot; monkeypatching now uses the string target form.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RBYGqJHC2TMC6fonFziuuh

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 22:17:09 -03:00
Vinicius Brasil
3452e5c187 Add unified declarative flow loading (#6308)
Add a single declaration loader shared by API and CLI callers.

- Add FlowDefinition.from_declaration for FlowDefinition instances, dictionaries, YAML/JSON strings, and file paths
- Add Flow.from_declaration to build runnable flows directly from the same inputs
- Route declarative flow CLI loading through Flow.from_declaration so path handling and validation stay centralized

```
# Load just the serializable definition when you do not need to run it yet.
definition = FlowDefinition.from_declaration(path="flows/research.crewai")
definition = FlowDefinition.from_declaration(contents=flow_yaml)
definition = FlowDefinition.from_declaration(contents=flow_dict)

# Build a runnable flow directly from the same declaration inputs.
flow = Flow.from_declaration(path="flows/research.crewai")
flow = Flow.from_declaration(contents=flow_yaml)
flow = Flow.from_declaration(contents=flow_dict)
flow = Flow.from_declaration(contents=definition)

# Run it like any other flow.
result = flow.kickoff(inputs={"topic": "AI agents"})

# The CLI now goes through the same path-based loader.
# crewai run --definition flows/research.crewai
```
2026-06-23 12:02:18 -07:00
Vinicius Brasil
221dfdb08e Consolidate crewai run and crewai flow kickoff (#6296)
Make `crewai run` the single execution path for crews and flows, with
`crewai flow kickoff` kept as a deprecated compatibility alias.
2026-06-22 20:44:08 -07:00
Vinicius Brasil
4b2ce00a09 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
2026-06-22 19:58:17 -07:00