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Lucas Gomide 93dafe2637 feat: adopt directory-based docs versioning with Edge channel
Switch docs.crewai.com from navigation-only versioning (every version
selector entry rendered the same docs/<lang>/* source files) to
Mintlify's directory-based versioning so each version selector entry
renders its own snapshot. Add an "Edge" channel under docs/edge/<lang>/*
that always reflects main HEAD for unreleased work, eliminating
pre-release leakage onto frozen release labels. External links to
canonical /<lang>/* URLs are preserved via wildcard redirects that
always land on the current default version.

Layout:
- docs/edge/<lang>/*         rolling source (you edit here)
- docs/edge/enterprise-api.*.yaml
- docs/v<X.Y.Z>/<lang>/*     frozen, immutable snapshots
- docs/v<X.Y.Z>/enterprise-api.*.yaml
- docs/images/               shared, append-only
- docs/docs.json             nav + redirects

URLs follow the Mintlify-idiomatic shape: /edge/<lang>/<page> for
Edge, /v<X.Y.Z>/<lang>/<page> for every frozen snapshot. The wildcard
redirects /<lang>/:slug* -> /<default>/<lang>/:slug* keep stale links
working, and every freeze rewrites them (plus all per-section/per-page
redirects) so destinations always resolve to the current default
without depending on a second redirect hop.

Release flow integration (devtools release):
- New module crewai_devtools.docs_versioning.freeze() materialises
  docs/v<X.Y.Z>/ from docs/edge/, rewrites openapi: refs inside the
  snapshot, inserts the version into every language block in
  docs.json, and refreshes all redirect destinations.
- _update_docs_and_create_pr() in cli.py now calls that freeze during
  Phase 2 of devtools release. Edge changelogs are updated first (so
  the snapshot freeze picks them up), then the snapshot is staged
  alongside docs.json, branched as docs/freeze-v<X.Y.Z>, and the PR
  is titled [docs-freeze] docs: snapshot and changelog for v<X.Y.Z>
  — the title prefix the new CI guard reads.
- The PR still gates tag, GitHub release, PyPI publish, and the
  enterprise release as before; no new PRs are added.
- Pre-releases (1.X.YaN, 1.X.YbN, ...) skip the snapshot — they ride
  Edge — and the docs PR title omits the [docs-freeze] prefix.
- docs_check (AI-generated docs scaffolding) writes to
  docs/edge/<lang>/* so newly-generated unreleased docs land in Edge
  and never accidentally touch a frozen snapshot.

Migration scripts (one-shot):
- scripts/docs/freeze_historical_versions.py reconstructs all 16
  historical snapshots (v1.10.0 .. v1.14.7) from git tags via
  git archive | tar, rewriting openapi: MDX refs so each snapshot
  reads its own enterprise-api YAML rather than the live one.
- scripts/docs/prefix_version_paths.py one-shot-migrates docs.json:
  rewrites every page path in 16 versioned blocks to point under
  docs/v<X.Y.Z>/, inserts a new Edge entry per language, tags
  v1.14.7 as Latest (default), prunes pages whose target file
  doesn't exist in the snapshot (e.g. docs/ar/ didn't exist before
  v1.12.0), and writes the wildcard + per-section redirects.
- scripts/docs/freeze_current_edge.py is now a thin CLI wrapper
  around docs_versioning.freeze for manual one-off freezes (e.g.
  retroactively snapshotting a forgotten release).

CI guards (.github/workflows/docs-snapshots.yml):
- Frozen snapshots under docs/v[0-9]*/ are immutable; only PRs whose
  title contains [docs-freeze] (i.e. release-cut PRs generated by
  devtools release or the manual wrapper) may modify them.
- Images under docs/images/ are append-only since snapshots share a
  single image directory. Deleting or renaming an image breaks every
  historical snapshot that still references it.

Restored docs/images/crewai-otel-export.png from PR #3673; it was
deleted in PR #4908 but v1.10.0 / v1.10.1 snapshots still reference
it. Restoring instead of editing the snapshots preserves historical
rendering fidelity and validates the new append-only rule
retroactively.

Tests:
- lib/devtools/tests/test_docs_versioning.py covers the freeze: file
  copy, openapi rewrite, version insertion, default demotion, redirect
  upserts, per-section redirect rewriting, idempotency, and invalid
  inputs.

Verified locally with mintlify broken-links: 0 broken links across
the full site (Edge + 16 frozen versions, 4 locales).

AGENTS.md (repo root) is the contributor guide for the new model;
RELEASING.md is the release-cut runbook; README's Contribution
section links to both.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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---
title: NL2SQL Tool
description: The `NL2SQLTool` is designed to convert natural language to SQL queries.
icon: language
mode: "wide"
---
## Overview
This tool is used to convert natural language to SQL queries. When passed to the agent it will generate queries and then use them to interact with the database.
This enables multiple workflows like having an Agent to access the database fetch information based on the goal and then use the information to generate a response, report or any other output.
Along with that provides the ability for the Agent to update the database based on its goal.
**Attention**: Make sure that the Agent has access to a Read-Replica or that is okay for the Agent to run insert/update queries on the database.
## Security Model
`NL2SQLTool` is an execution-capable tool. It runs model-generated SQL directly against the configured database connection.
This means risk depends on your deployment choices:
- Which credentials you provide in `db_uri`
- Whether untrusted input can influence prompts
- Whether you add tool-call guardrails before execution
If you route untrusted input to agents using this tool, treat it as a high-risk integration.
## Hardening Recommendations
Use all of the following in production:
- Use a read-only database user whenever possible
- Prefer a read replica for analytics/retrieval workloads
- Grant least privilege (no superuser/admin roles, no file/system-level capabilities)
- Apply database-side resource limits (statement timeout, lock timeout, cost/row limits)
- Add `before_tool_call` hooks to enforce allowed query patterns
- Enable query logging and alerting for destructive statements
## Requirements
- SqlAlchemy
- Any DB compatible library (e.g. psycopg2, mysql-connector-python)
## Installation
Install the crewai_tools package
```shell
pip install 'crewai[tools]'
```
## Usage
In order to use the NL2SQLTool, you need to pass the database URI to the tool. The URI should be in the format `dialect+driver://username:password@host:port/database`.
```python Code
from crewai_tools import NL2SQLTool
# psycopg2 was installed to run this example with PostgreSQL
nl2sql = NL2SQLTool(db_uri="postgresql://example@localhost:5432/test_db")
@agent
def researcher(self) -> Agent:
return Agent(
config=self.agents_config["researcher"],
allow_delegation=False,
tools=[nl2sql]
)
```
## Example
The primary task goal was:
"Retrieve the average, maximum, and minimum monthly revenue for each city, but only include cities that have more than one user. Also, count the number of user in each city and
sort the results by the average monthly revenue in descending order"
So the Agent tried to get information from the DB, the first one is wrong so the Agent tries again and gets the correct information and passes to the next agent.
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/blob/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-2.png?raw=true)
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/raw/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-3.png)
The second task goal was:
"Review the data and create a detailed report, and then create the table on the database with the fields based on the data provided.
Include information on the average, maximum, and minimum monthly revenue for each city, but only include cities that have more than one user. Also, count the number of users in each city and sort the results by the average monthly revenue in descending order."
Now things start to get interesting, the Agent generates the SQL query to not only create the table but also insert the data into the table. And in the end the Agent still returns the final report which is exactly what was in the database.
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/raw/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-4.png)
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/raw/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-5.png)
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/raw/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-9.png)
![alt text](https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI-tools/raw/main/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/images/image-7.png)
This is a simple example of how the NL2SQLTool can be used to interact with the database and generate reports based on the data in the database.
The Tool provides endless possibilities on the logic of the Agent and how it can interact with the database.
```md
DB -> Agent -> ... -> Agent -> DB
```