- Allow agents to accept both CrewAI tools and raw tool definitions (dicts)
- Raw tool definitions are passed through unchanged to LLM providers
- Maintain backward compatibility with existing CrewAI tools
- Update BaseAgent.validate_tools() to handle dict tool definitions
- Update parse_tools() to preserve raw tool definitions
- Update utility functions to handle mixed tool types
- Add comprehensive tests for new functionality
Fixes#3338
Co-Authored-By: João <joao@crewai.com>
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