Quickstart
Turn your CrewAI Flows into an agent-native application in 10 minutes.
Start with your coding agent#
Use this prompt to connect your CrewAI agent to CopilotKit and verify a working conversation. Your coding agent will follow this guide in your project, or you can work through the manual steps below.
Open your coding agent in your project's folder, or in an empty folder for a new app.This runs in a coding agent on your computer.
Prerequisites#
Before you begin, you need a CrewAI Flow. It can run locally or on infrastructure you manage; a CrewAI Enterprise deployment is optional. If you use the CopilotKit CLI path below, the starter creates the Flow integration for you.
Getting started#
Optional: Set up CopilotKit Intelligence#
Start cloud-hosted setup and create or select a project if you want persistent threads and the inspector. The CLI's init flow writes the server-side project API key to .env as CPK_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY; cloud-hosted setup does not issue COPILOTKIT_LICENSE_TOKEN. A Copilot Cloud account is not required to run a local CrewAI Flow with CopilotKit.
How do you want to get started?#
Bootstrap with the new CopilotKit CLI (Beta) or code along with us to get started.
What's next?#
You've now got a CrewAI Flow running in CopilotKit! Now you can start exploring the various ways that CopilotKit can help you build powerful agent-native applications.
Make your Flow conversational
Promote the Flow to CrewAI's session-aware conversational execution mode.
Implement Human in the Loop
Allow your users and agents to collaborate together on tasks.
Utilize the Shared State
Learn how to synchronize your agent's state with your UI's state, and vice versa.
Add some generative UI
Render your agent's progress and output in the UI.
Setup frontend actions
Give your agent the ability to call frontend tools, directly updating your application.