crewAI 1.14.8a5 lets crews share declarative refs across flows

crewAI, the open-source framework for orchestrating multiple AI agents (54.3k GitHub stars), has shipped pre-release version 1.14.8a5. The headline feature: declarative references now work across both flows and crews. Previously, declarative configuration was isolated to a single crew or flow; with this update, developers can define shared references that span multiple crews and flows, enabling more cohesive multi-agent designs without repetitive boilerplate.

The release also addresses a critical bug in JSON schema flow state kickoff inputs (fix #6325). This fix ensures that when feeding structured data to start a flow, the JSON schema validation behaves correctly, preventing silent failures or type mismatches. Additionally, the team removed the rollout banner from Crew Studio and nested the One Card per Step documentation under it (AGE-107). The release includes commits from contributors @jessemiller and @vinibrsl. As an alpha pre-release, it's intended for testing; production users should wait for the stable release.