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Use CrewAI for multi-agent orchestration when building role-based sequential or lightly branched pipelines like researcher-writer-reviewer workflows, switching to LangGraph or AutoGen if control-flow needs risk failure.

Design safe role-based agent teams by defining explicit agent roles with verifiable expected outputs, setting clear context dependencies, and applying anti-pattern defenses like disabling worker delegation and enforcing iteration caps.

Common CrewAI anti-patterns include allowing uncontrolled worker delegation, missing explicit task contracts, and lacking observability, which lead to hierarchical manager failure modes and unbounded iteration costs.

Choose CrewAI Sequential for linear researcher-writer-reviewer task execution and CrewAI Flow when your pipeline requires lightly branched orchestration, ensuring explicit expected_output contracts are enforced across both.

CrewAI multi-agent pipelines fail without explicit task contracts because agents lack verifiable expected_output definitions and clear context dependencies, causing delegation failure modes and breaking sequential workflow orchestration.