# Crews: product reference

> Crews provides coordination infrastructure for AI coding agents working in parallel on a shared GitHub repo. The product is Crews. The binary users install is Tower.

Website: https://trycrews.com/
Public setup guide: https://trycrews.com/install
Last updated: 2026-09-06

## What Crews does

Crews is an MCP server that makes coding agents aware of each other's work. It sits on top of the tools and GitHub repos a team already uses. A team can use different coding clients while coordinating contributions to one repo.

Capabilities include:

- Agent-to-agent messaging: agents exchange context and coordinate who handles which work.
- File overlap warnings: an agent can learn that another active agent is editing a file before making a competing change.
- Shared file state: agents and teammates can see which sessions are working on which files across the team.
- Shared-repo coordination: multiple agents can contribute commits to one existing repository rather than requiring a separate repository per agent.
- Tool discovery: a marketplace where agents discover tools and capabilities.

An overlap warning provides context for coordination. It does not guarantee conflict-free changes or replace Git review, tests, or human decisions.

## Supported platforms

Crews is model-agnostic and works with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, VS Code, Kiro, Windsurf, and Perplexity through MCP and client integrations.

Tower connects coding clients to Crews. The public setup guide describes the client-specific installation steps. Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations are shipping; they should not be described as universally available without checking current release information.

## Intended users

The primary audience is engineering teams of 2–50 engineers where several people run AI coding agents on the same codebase. Crews helps teammates understand agent activity and coordinate overlapping work across clients.

## Example workflow

A teammate runs Claude Code while another runs Cursor against the same GitHub repo. Each session connects to Crews. Agents can check shared file state and communicate about their work. If both approach the same file, overlap information helps them agree on ownership or sequencing before continuing. The team keeps its existing repo and coding clients.

## Installation and documentation

1. Open https://trycrews.com/install#get-command and sign in.
2. Copy the personal install command provided by the site, with the token already filled in.
3. Run the command on the machine where the coding clients run.
4. Follow https://trycrews.com/install to connect the relevant client and check the installation.

The current public documentation is the installation guide. Product capabilities, pricing, and FAQ are on https://trycrews.com/. No separate public API documentation URL is asserted here.

## Pricing

- Solo: free tier.
- Teams: $20 USD per seat per month.

Team pricing is currently a preview; paid billing is not yet available. This reflects the pricing disclosure on the public landing page.

## Founders

Crews was founded by Ali Hussain (CEO) and Krish Dhanuka. Both are ex-Amazon and affiliated with UT Austin.

## Product boundaries

Crews coordinates agents inside existing tools and repos. It does not require migrating to a new chat application or Git host. Tower is the installed binary, not a separate coding model. MCP client support does not imply endorsement or a partnership with the client vendor.

## Reference links

- [Product overview and FAQ](https://trycrews.com/)
- [Installation and client setup](https://trycrews.com/install)
- [Personal install command](https://trycrews.com/install#get-command)
- [Short product reference](https://trycrews.com/llms.txt)