APM – Agent Package Manager

An open-source, community-driven dependency manager for AI agents. apm.yml declares the skills, prompts, instructions, and tools your project needs — so every developer gets the same agent setup. Packages can depend on packages, and APM resolves the full tree.

Think package.json, requirements.txt, or Cargo.toml — but for AI agent configuration.

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Why APM

AI coding agents need context to be useful: what standards to follow, what prompts to use, what skills to leverage. Today this is manual — each developer installs things one by one, writes instructions from scratch, copies files around. None of it is portable. There's no manifest for it.

APM fixes this. You declare your project's agentic dependencies once, and every developer who clones your repo gets a fully configured agent setup in seconds. Packages can depend on other packages — APM resolves transitive dependencies automatically, just like npm or pip.

See It in Action

# apm.yml — ships with your project, like package.json
name: your project
version: 1.0.0
dependencies:
  apm:
    # Skills from any repository
    - anthropics/skills/skills/frontend-design
    - microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure/plugin/skills/azure-compliance
    # A full APM package with rules, skills, prompts...
    - microsoft/apm-sample-package
    # Specific agent primitives from any repository
    - github/awesome-copilot/skills/review-and-refactor
    - github/awesome-copilot/agents/api-architect.agent.md