Welcome to our blog series on building the X Trending Content Generation Agent – a CrewAI-based multi-agent system designed to ideate, draft, and refine viral Twitter (X.com) threads.

In this post, we'll introduce the project, explain our roadmap, and guide you through setting up the CrewAI project.

Project Roadmap

We’ll build the system in multiple phases:

Phase 1: Setup CrewAI

We’ll learn how to setup a crewAI project.

Phase 2: Building individual agents

1. Research Agent: Scrapes trending topics from X.com

2. Ideation Agent: Generates engaging content hooks and ideas.

3. Writing Agent: Drafts full X threads in the user's tone.

4. Editing Agent: Refines drafts based on human feedback.

5. Knowledge Base Agent: Stores past content, user preferences, and writing style.

Phase 3: Integration & Testing

We’ll integrate all agents using crewAI and test how our agent works

Phase 4: Publishing our crews

Phase 5: Accessing our crews via FastAPI

Phase 6: Building a UI

Getting Started with CrewAI:

CrewAI is a cutting-edge open-source framework build with python for orchestrating autonomous AI agents. CrewAI lets you create teams of agents, each with their own roles and goals, working together to get things done.

Installation:

Use Conda to create a new environment to keep dependencies isolated, preventing conflicts and ensuring a clean and consistent setup.

conda create -n crewai_env python=3

Install CrewAI with all recommended tools

Let’s create our project with CrewAI CLI

crewai create crew x-content-agent

# let’s start with grok you can get its free API [here](<https://console.groq.com/keys>).
# We'll use `groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile` for this project

After successful run our new project will be created with the following structure

x_content_agent/
├── .gitignore               
├── pyproject.toml           # Project configuration and dependencies
├── README.md                
├── .env                     # Store API keys and environment variables
└── src/
    └── x_content_agent/
        ├── __init__.py      
        ├── main.py          # Project entry point and execution flow
        ├── crew.py          # Crew orchestration and coordination
        ├── tools/           # Directory for custom agent tools
        │   ├── custom_tool.py  # Custom agent tool implementation
        │   └── __init__.py  
        └── config/
            ├── agents.yaml  # Define your AI agents and their roles
            └── tasks.yaml   # Set up agent tasks and workflows

Install the dependencies

cd

Some core concepts of CrewAI before we start

1. Agents: In the CrewAI framework, an Agent is an autonomous unit that can perform specific tasks, make decisions based on its role and goal, use tools to accomplish objectives, communicate and collaborate with other agents, maintain memory of interactions, and delegate tasks when allowed.

2. Tasks: In the CrewAI framework, a Task is a specific assignment completed by an Agent. Tasks provide all necessary details for execution, such as a description, the agent responsible, required tools, and more, facilitating a wide range of action complexities. Tasks within CrewAI can be collaborative, requiring multiple agents to work together, managed through the task properties and orchestrated by the Crew’s process, enhancing teamwork and efficiency.

3. Crews: A Crew in CrewAI represents a collaborative group of agents working together to achieve a set of tasks. Each crew defines the strategy for task execution, agent collaboration, and the overall workflow

4. Tools: CrewAI tools empower agents with capabilities ranging from web searching and data analysis to collaboration and delegating tasks among coworkers.

Deep-learning course:

Take this short course to get better understanding.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/multi-ai-agent-systems-with-crewai/

🚀 Next Steps

Now that we have our development environment set up, in the next post, we’ll start implementing our first agent – the Knowledge Base Agent! Stay tuned. ✨

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