refactor: narrow Any-typed fields to concrete types across core models

[greysonlalonde]

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Medium Risk
Changes Pydantic schemas/serialization for Crew/Task callbacks (now cloudpickle-based) and tightens core model types, which could affect compatibility and introduces opt-in pickle deserialization considerations.

Overview
Narrows previously Any-typed fields across Crew and Flow (LLM fields, memory types, tracing span, input provider) to concrete unions, and refactors related helpers/imports accordingly.

Adds callback serialization support via new SerializableCallable (cloudpickle+base64) and updates Task.callback, Crew.step_callback, and Crew.task_callback to use it; introduces optional crewai[pickling] extra (cloudpickle) with opt-in deserialization guard.

Flow behavior is slightly adjusted around memory remember() handling for list inputs and ask() timeout handling, and tests are updated to patch LLM in the correct module and to use VCR cassettes for _collapse_to_outcome coverage.

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Context manager fails on nested reentrant usage

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_AllowPickleDeserialization is documented as "reentrant" but isn't. On __enter__, it stores the _ALLOW_PICKLE reset token into _ALLOW_PICKLE_TOKEN but discards the token returned by _ALLOW_PICKLE_TOKEN.set(...). When nested, the inner __exit__ consumes the token, then the outer __exit__ reads the same (already-used) token from _ALLOW_PICKLE_TOKEN and calls _ALLOW_PICKLE.reset(token), raising a ValueError because the token was already consumed.

 

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