[BUG] Title: Dependency constraints in `pyproject.toml` are overly strict
envgap__crewAIInc__crewAI-4300
01 / FAILURE SIGNATURE
As reported upstream
Error: Exit code 1
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- The project already builds and runs before the fix, so there is nothing to repair.
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03 / ORIGINAL ISSUE TEXT
crewAIInc/crewAI #4300 · read the original issue
### Description
I’m hitting repeated dependency-resolution failures because several constraints in `pyproject.toml` are much stricter than the broader Python AI ecosystem now expects.
Concrete examples:
- **`openai` is pinned to a very narrow window** (`openai>=1.83.0,<1.84.dev0`). This makes CrewAI incompatible with packages that require newer OpenAI SDKs (e.g. `langchain-openai>=1.0.3` requires `openai>=1.109.1,<3.0.0`, and tools/observability integrations like `openlit` require `openai>=1.92.0`).
### Steps to Reproduce
`uv add "crewai[tools]" "langchain-openai>=1.0.3"`
Resolver fails because CrewAI pins OpenAI SDK to `<1.84.dev0` while `langchain-openai` needs `>=1.109.1`.
### Expected behavior
CrewAI should remain installable alongside common ecosystem packages (LangChain integrations, LiteLLM proxy stacks, observability tools, transformers/sentence-transformers), unless CrewAI truly requires a breaking API change.
### Screenshots/Code snippets
- Package manager: `uv`
### Operating System
macOS Sonoma
### Python Version
3.12
### crewAI Version
1.9.2
### crewAI Tools Version
1.9.2
### Virtual Environment
Poetry
### Evidence
Error: Exit code 1
× No solution found when resolving dependencies for split (markers:
│ python_full_version >= '3.14'):
╰─▶ Because crewai==1.9.2 depends on openai>=1.83.0,<1.84.dev0 and your
project depends on crewai[litellm]==1.9.2, we can conclude that your
project depends on openai>=1.83.0,<1.84.dev0.
And because your project depends on openai>=1.90.0, we can conclude that
your project's requirements are unsatisfiable.
### Possible Solution
**Relax `openai` constraint**
- If CrewAI is compatible with newer OpenAI SDKs: widen to something like:
- `openai>=1.83.0,<3.0.0` (or `<2.0.0` if 2.x is truly incompatible)
### Additional context
Strict pins force users to fork or vendor CrewAI just to integrate with standard tooling. Relaxing constraints (plus a small compatibility test suite) would massively improve install success rates without sacrificing stability.04 / LABELS
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