microsoft/apm

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3644 stars · 339 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

APM (Agent Package Manager) is an open-source dependency manager for AI coding agents, letting teams declare skills, prompts, instructions, plugins, and MCP servers in an apm.yml manifest. It resolves transitive dependencies, pins versions with a lockfile, and deploys agent context across harnesses like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

Use cases

• share agent skills and prompts across a team via a manifest
• reproducibly configure AI coding agents on fresh clones
• install MCP servers into multiple agent clients
• manage agent context dependencies like npm manages packages
• enforce org policy on which agent packages are allowed
• author and version agent plugin packages

When to choose

• your team uses multiple AI coding agents and needs consistent, portable context
• you want versioned, lockfile-pinned agent dependencies with transitive resolution
• you need governance and security scanning for agent packages in an organization

When to avoid

• you use a single agent harness with no need for portability
• you only need one-off skill installs without manifest or lockfile management

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

package-manager cli prompt-engineering mcp developer-tools configuration-management developer-tools large-language-models cli cross-platform windows ai-agents agent-context dependency-manager copilot claude-code skills lockfile policy-governance automation command-line macos linux

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