Prepare for Deployment

my_crew/
├── .gitignore
├── pyproject.toml          # Must have type = "crew"
├── README.md
├── .env
├── uv.lock                  # REQUIRED for deployment
├── crew.jsonc               # Crew settings, tasks, process, inputs
├── agents/
│   └── researcher.jsonc     # Agent definitions
├── tools/                   # Optional custom:<name> tools
├── knowledge/
└── skills/

my_flow/
├── .gitignore
├── pyproject.toml          # Must have type = "flow"
├── README.md
├── .env
├── uv.lock                  # REQUIRED for deployment
└── src/
    └── my_flow/
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── main.py          # Entry point with kickoff() function + Flow class
        ├── crews/           # Embedded crews folder
        │   └── poem_crew/
        │       ├── __init__.py
        │       ├── poem_crew.py  # Crew with @CrewBase decorator
        │       └── config/
        │           ├── agents.yaml
        │           └── tasks.yaml
        └── tools/
            ├── __init__.py
            └── custom_tool.py

# Generate or update the lock file
uv lock

# Verify it exists
ls -la uv.lock

uv lock
git add uv.lock
git commit -m "Add uv.lock for deployment"
git push

```jsonc crew.jsonc
{
  "name": "Research Crew",
  "agents": ["researcher"],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "research_task",
      "description": "Research {topic}.",
      "expected_output": "A concise report.",
      "agent": "researcher"
    }
  ],
  "inputs": {
    "topic": "AI Agents"
  }
}
```

Custom tools are referenced as `"custom:<name>"` and must be implemented in
`tools/<name>.py` with a `BaseTool` subclass.

```python
from crewai import Agent, Crew, Process, Task
from crewai.project import CrewBase, agent, crew, task
from crewai.agents.agent_builder.base_agent import BaseAgent
from typing import List

@CrewBase
class MyCrew():
    """My crew description"""

    agents: List[BaseAgent]
    tasks: List[Task]

    @agent
    def my_agent(self) -> Agent:
        return Agent(
            config=self.agents_config['my_agent'],  # type: ignore[index]
            verbose=True
        )

    @task
    def my_task(self) -> Task:
        return Task(
            config=self.tasks_config['my_task']  # type: ignore[index]
        )

    @crew
    def crew(self) -> Crew:
        return Crew(
            agents=self.agents,
            tasks=self.tasks,
            process=Process.sequential,
            verbose=True,
        )
```

```bash
crewai run
```

```python
# src/my_crew/main.py
from my_crew.crew import MyCrew

def run():
    """Run the crew."""
    inputs = {'topic': 'AI in Healthcare'}
    result = MyCrew().crew().kickoff(inputs=inputs)
    return result

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run()
```

```python
# src/my_flow/main.py
from crewai.flow import Flow, listen, start
from my_flow.crews.poem_crew.poem_crew import PoemCrew

class MyFlow(Flow):
    @start()
    def begin(self):
        # Flow logic here
        result = PoemCrew().crew().kickoff(inputs={...})
        return result

def kickoff():
    """Run the flow."""
    MyFlow().kickoff()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    kickoff()
```

# 1. Check project type in pyproject.toml
grep -A2 "\[tool.crewai\]" pyproject.toml

# 2. Verify uv.lock exists
ls -la uv.lock || echo "ERROR: uv.lock missing! Run 'uv lock'"

# 3. For JSON-first crews, verify crew.jsonc and agents/ exist
([ -f crew.jsonc ] || [ -f crew.json ]) || echo "No crew.jsonc or crew.json found"
test -d agents || echo "No agents/ directory found"

# 4. For classic Crews - verify crew.py exists
ls -la src/*/crew.py 2>/dev/null || echo "No crew.py (expected for Crews)"

# 5. For Flows - verify crews/ folder exists
ls -la src/*/crews/ 2>/dev/null || echo "No crews/ folder (expected for Flows)"

# 6. For classic Python crews - check for CrewBase usage
grep -r "@CrewBase" . --include="*.py"