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CrewAI 1.15.8 adds WaitTool for long-running agent jobs
agent-framework orchestration tool-use
CrewAI's 1.15.8 release is a small update that solves a real coordination problem. The new WaitTool lets agents pause mid-workflow while a slow external process finishes, which is the kind of primitive that separates toy demos from production pipelines. The release also tightens configuration validation by making E2B_API_KEY mandatory for sandbox-based tools, and patches a bug in FileWriterTool. Unglamorous work, but the gap between "agent that works in a notebook" and "agent that runs reliably in production" gets closed one fix like this at a time.
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CrewAI released version 1.15.8, introducing a WaitTool that allows agents to pause execution while waiting for long-running background jobs to complete. It's a useful primitive for agentic workflows that need to coordinate with slow external processes. The release also fixes the FileWriterTool and marks the E2B_API_KEY (used for sandboxed code execution via the E2B platform) as a required environment variable for E2B-based tools, tightening configuration validation.
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