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source: CrewKit documentation
url: https://crewkit.io/docs.md
title: "CrewKit"
description: "CrewKit is the institutional memory and governance layer for AI-assisted engineering: shared context, team rules and session visibility for every agent run."
---


CrewKit is the institutional memory and governance layer for AI-assisted engineering: shared context, team rules and session visibility for every agent run.

## Three Pillars

**Remember** — PRDs, transcripts, Slack threads, and past sessions become searchable project memory, injected automatically when a session starts.

**Govern** — Playbooks and conventions with an auditable challenge log, role-based autonomy, and privacy-first detectors: no code egress, no LLM in the loop.

**Collaborate** — Agents get a Slack handle, teammates see who's working on what live, and any session is one share link away.

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## How it works

1. **Install the CLI** and connect to your account
2. **Connect your context** — upload docs, import from Drive, link Slack, so decisions stop evaporating
3. **Run `crewkit code`** in any project — it authenticates, detects your project, syncs your team's agent configs, and launches Claude Code
4. **Session data flows** to your dashboard — tokens, costs, tool usage, conversation summaries
5. **Iterate** — tweak agent prompts, run A/B experiments, roll out what works

```bash
# Install
brew install karibew/tap/crewkit

# Start coding
cd my-project
crewkit code
```

`crewkit code` launches the native Claude Code you already use — CrewKit runs alongside it in the background, tracking the session and loading your team's context. Nothing about the Claude Code experience changes.

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## Who is this for

Teams using Claude Code who want:

- **Shared project memory** — docs, transcripts, and past sessions searchable and injected at session start
- **Consistent agent configs** across the team (no "works on my machine" for AI prompts)
- **Visibility** into what AI is doing across all developers
- **Guardrails** — playbooks and conventions that enforce team standards
- **Data-driven improvement** — measure which agent versions perform best

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## Next steps

- [Install CrewKit](/docs/installation)
- [Quickstart: zero to session](/docs/quickstart)
- [Configure your agents](/docs/agents)