Crew AI Project Setup

Walkthrough

1. Create a new Conda virtual environment

   • conda create --name flooding_alerts python=3.11

2. Activate the Conda virtual environment

   • conda activate flooding_alerts

3. Create a new CrewAI project

   • crewai create flooding_alerts

   This creates a ready made crewai project structure, containing agents, tasks, config etc.

4. Open the new CrewAI project in VSCode

   • cd flooding_alerts
   • code .

5. Enter the poetry shell

   • poetry shell

6. Update the poetry config so that the virtual environment resides within the current project directory

   • poetry config virtualenvs.path ./.venv

7. Add additional dependencies

   • poetry add crewai_tools
   • poetry add langchain_community

8. Lock the poetry dependency versions

   • poetry lock

9. Install dependencies

   • poetry install

10. Run the CrewAI project

    • poetry run flooding_alerts