Clarification on crewai.tools vs crewai_tools

[Ardhendu_Singh]

Hi all,

I noticed that both of the following imports are available in the project:
import crewai.tools
import crewai_tools

Could someone please clarify the purpose of each? When should we use one over the other?

Thanks in advance!

[Max_Moura]

Hi Ardhendu. First off, welcome onboard!

• crewai_tools (Github) is an independent repository package where you’ll find ready-to-use tools, like PDFSearchTool or WebsiteSearchTool.

• crewai.tools (Github) is part of the main CrewAI repository, where you’ll find BaseTool and @tool to build your own tools.